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Puffin's Pantry

Owners: Tim and Joan Mueller

Start-up date: April 6

Address: 2720 Colby Ave.

Phone: 257-9351

There's a special reason Joan Mueller wears a puffin costume to promote her new ice cream and coffee shop, Puffin's Pantry.

Puffins are seabirds which mate for life, but in the winter they split up to migrate and in the spring return to each other.

Joan can relate. During the years in which her husband worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska, she got tired of feeling like a puffin.