Dow selling landscape materials in Cheney

By BECKY THOMAS

Staff Reporter

Dow Excavating owner Wayne Dow has expanded his business into landscape materials. Dow Landscape Materials opened across from Sears on First Street in Cheney last week, offering topsoil, bark, rock, compost and more.

“Nobody has this in Cheney. They've sprung up all over the West Plains, but we're just trying to provide a service where there is a need here for Cheney,” Dow said.

Dow has run the excavating business since 1992, but it was known as Wally's Excavating since the late 1960s, when Dow's father began the business using equipment from his Cheney-area farm...