New managers for Cathlamet Market

The Cathlamet IGA Market has new store managers: Stephanie Crouse is store manager, and Andy Lea is assistant manager. Both are long time local residents.

Crouse replaced Scott Merriman, who left to work in the St. Helens IGA, which is close to his home. Crouse has worked in the Cathlamet store since 2004. She said she finds the work challenging and her goal is to give better service to her customers.

“We have a really great team right now,” she said, of her 11 employees.

Lea worked at Moore Auto and Marine for the past 16 months before the fulltime position at the grocery opened. He was branch manager for Vancouver Bolt and Supply prior to that and called on local customers. Lea was a Town of Cathlamet council member during early 2000s. In high school and college, Lea worked for IGA and Safeway.