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By Dena Wood
The Times 

Gleason's Galley Set to Open Next Week

Karen Gleason has big plans for her little shop across from Preston Park

 

Dena Wood

Karen Gleason peeks her head out of the storefront of Gleason's Galley located just off Preston Avenue in the Ag Link parking lot.

WAITSBURG – Karen Gleason took advantage of her recent medical retirement as an officer at the Washington State Penitentiary to follow her dream of starting an "old school" restaurant in Waitsburg. Gleason's Galley, a mini espresso bar and deli located on the AG- Link service station lot on the corner of Preston and Coppei is set to open on Sunday, for Mother's Day, if all goes as planned.

Gleason was hired on at the penitentiary in 2002 but was recently forced into medical retirement. "When they told me I would never be released to be an officer again, I knew I could go into the secretar...



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