Medical Lake's Denney's Harvest Foods changing hands

The business has been integral to the social fabric of Medical Lake for nearly a quarter century, and while Denny’s Harvest Foods isn’t going anywhere, the owner, Kathy McDaniel, a slight woman with short, sandy-blond hair, gray eyes and glasses, is moving on.

She and her late husband, Denny, the business’s namesake, had been working for several months in 2017 preparing to sell and retire when his untimely death radically changed McDaniel’s life.

“We were in the process of working with a buyer when he passed away,” McDaniel said in her second story office that overlooks the aisles below.

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