{"id":704911,"date":"2026-05-31T01:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704911\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T01:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:49:14","slug":"longtime-prince-albert-business-confirms-plans-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704911\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Prince Albert business confirms plans to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/963083bf-b59f-4c12-a40b-1936e8b0bda4-scaled.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dave Arsenault and The Impressions provided the entertainment for the store&#8217;s closing party. (Image Credit: Nigel Maxwell\/paNOW Staff)<\/p>\n<p>By Nigel Maxwell<\/p>\n<p>Local economy <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 30, 2026 | 8:00 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A Prince Albert business that has operated in the city for 40 years and been a staple of the downtown for 13 years, is closing its doors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Laurie Nyirfa, owner and manager of Country Comfort Bedrooms and Fine Furniture, told paNOW she hopes to sell all remaining inventory by the end of next month. She confirmed the decision to close was difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the downtown, I love the people, and we\u2019ve had great success down here,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nyirfa and her late husband, Daryl, started the business in 1986 at Great Canadian Wholesale. They later moved behind Canadian Tire for five years before relocating to the unit block of 13th Street West, across from Gateway Mall.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Arsenault and The Impressions provided the entertainment for the store&#8217;s closing party. (Image Credit: Nigel Maxwell\/paNOW Staff)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48],"class_list":["post-704911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}