Jun 1, 2010

AJ’s Edible Arts a tasty success story in PascoBy Loretto J. HulseTheNewsTribune.com

Pasco, WA — Twenty-two years ago, Alice Jones of Kennewick was an unemployed bookkeeper.

Today, she’s president of AJ’s Edible Arts of Pasco, which manufactures eight mustards, salsa, cheese ball and salad dressing mixes and a plum-based ketchup.

The transition from bookkeeping, which she left by choice, wasn’t easy.

“I was a bookkeeper for 20 years, but I burned out. I was 55 and keeping the books for seven businesses, including my husband’s. I hated to go to work,” she said.

One evening she took her husband, John, for a walk and gave him her two-week notice.

His first reaction was, “What do you think you’re going to do?”

Jones put a rsum together and began searching for a job, but was unsuccessful.

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