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Canby Connection • June 2014 Page 3

FIREWORKS:

The family owned business has ufacturers.

been part of the pyrotechnic scene The company has continued from
since 1948.
generation to generation -- four gen-
The Canby Connection is a monthly direct mail product,
published by the Canby Herald. The articles are contributions Their story begins with Canby erations -- and now David Pomeroy

by the advertising businesses, allowing them to bring their farmers Mickey and Dorothy Wey- is the fifth generation now working in
gandt, who grew and exported gin- the enterprise.
message directly to you.
seng and golden seal to China. One By 1984, the company, under the
year, their Chinese customers could guidance of present co-owners Judi

For more information about how you can participate in this not afford to pay cash for the herbs, and Bob Gobet, had outgrown its

publication contact the Canby Herald Sales Team.
instead offering a trade of fireworks. original farmland and relocated to
Mickey accepted and discovered the current 150-acre site.

Sandy Storey Dax Legaspi
there was a better economic future Western Display Fireworks contin-
in fireworks than in farming and ues to grow and expand, doing
SStorey@CanbyHerald.com DLegaspi@CanbyHerald.com
Western Display Fireworks was more than 300 shows a year, a ma-

launched.
jority of them over the Fourth of July.
The company grew and was even- Judi and Bob’s daughter, Heather

tually passed down to the next gen- Gobet, is the present general man-
eration, Lance and Pat White, who ager and primary designer.

traveled the world building lasting
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