Scotty’s marks 30 years

$100 down buys three4 decades of serving the Basin

MOSES LAKE — It started with an audacious gamble by a 25-year-old mechanic. “I went to (Bill Duncan, who owned an industrial building on Citation Street), and I said ‘I’d like to get started. I’ll give you $100 down on the building, and then I’ll promise to pay the rent in two weeks or I’ll get out,’” said Scott Myers, who owns Scotty’s Auto Repair with his wife Jeannette. “He looked me in the eye and said ‘OK, I’ll do it,’ and we shook hands, and he gave me the key.”