Robin Walmsley and Emmalee Crispin recently sat down and had a coffee with our 2020 Gap Year student Tayla Winmar before she heads off to university in February.

 Lincolns’ Gap Year program has been running since 2008 and has an amazing reputation within the community.

This week Carryn and Brendan travelled to the Chambers farm, 40kms north east of Ravensthorpe to chat with this very busy person. A Coffee with Jenny Chambers, Farmer, Community Champion, Mother of five, Grandmother of seven.

What was supposed to be a relaxed coffee was, in fact, us sitting at the kitchen bench asking questions while Jenny whipped up lunch for 9 adults and five energetic grandchildren.

This month Pam and Tayla had a zoom chat with Charles Hill and Steve Richardson from Raptor Group. Initially starting their forestry land clearing business in March 2018, they are now Albany’s largest family owned and operated machine hire company.

Their success stems from their ability to adapt swiftly to market challenges and opportunities, a remarkable skill for any business.

A few months ago, we managed to sit our newest partner down and pull out his journey from longhaired IT guy too suave and bearded Lincolns Partner, Paul Meaton.

David Steytler is one busy guy. He owns Three Anchors, the White Star and is President of the ACCI. Somehow he managed to find some time to sit down with Rob to talk about how he keeps on top of everything and how he has managed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

We recently sat down with Janet McArtney from Soroptimist International of Albany Inc, an inspiring group of women dedicated to supporting women and children particularly in local causes.

It has now been a few weeks since Russell retired from the Lincolns partnership. We caught up with him to see how he is settling into semi-retirement and to get some valuable career tips from someone with loads of experience.

Local business owners Darren and Jess Wood who own Albany Eco House and Solahart Albany & Great Southern. Since taking over the Albany Solahart branch 5 years ago they have expanded the business significantly.

A Fish and Chip Shop ‘re-imagined’ does not just come out of the blue. It is the culmination of the lifetime journeys of two passionate foodies joined by chance 7 years ago.

Russell sat down with long term clients and friends David Lewis & Marco Giuntoli, owners of Zenith Laundry to find out how they have taken a traditional laundry business and turned it into a highly computerised and mechanised factory.

Our 'a coffee with...' feature this month written by Carryn Hills highlights our Gavin Hard who together with Carryn's husband Mark completed a 87km ultramarathon.

Each job I aim to do better than the last in terms of our work process and quality.  We are always learning better ways of doing things with the materials we use.  Also developing better work practices to speed things up, whilst retaining a high level of quality craftmanship.