ERIN EDGEMON, Business Editor
Posted: Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:32 am

Pam Rieben is preparing to open her own bakery called Ganache Desserts at 1103 N.W. Broad St., Suite B, next to Demos’ Restaurant. “It is going to be desserts made from scratch,” she said of her bakery set to open early next year. The shop will feature cookies, brownies, cupcakes, tarts and butter cream frosting. “It is just something that I have always wanted to do,” Rieben said of opening her own shop. She has baked for family and friends for some 25 years. “It is a complete change of career for me,” she said. Before starting work on her shop, Rieben worked as a medical technologist. Rieben said what will make her shop special is that everything is made from scratch. Nothing is frozen or made from mixes. “There are few places where you can get that,” she said. “I think it makes a huge difference in the way it tastes.” Rieben’s butter cream frosting is perhaps her specialty, she said. Her frosting is baked and isn’t as sweet as many types of frostings. ••• Things Remembered, a leading personalized gift retailer, will open a new store at the Stones River Mall Oct. 9. The Stones River location is one of 11 Tennessee-based Things Remembered stores and one of more than 600 stores nationwide. Located between rue21 and Zales, the store features Things Remembered’s popular walk-through kiosk design, which allows for enhanced consumer-product interaction and easy access to the store’s personalized gifts. It also incorporates industry-award-winning jewelry cases and other displays that showcase a variety of engravable gifts for all occasions and recipients, which can be engraved while the gift giver shops. “Things Remembered has helped consumers incorporate special meaning into really great gifts for more than 40 years, and we are excited to create special moments for the shoppers of the Stones River Mall,” said Amy Myers, Things Remembered vice president of creative services. “We look forward to celebrating all of the year’s special moments with the area residents. Whether it’s a birthday, holiday, business milestone, wedding, anniversary or other occasion, we have a personalized gift to meet every need.” Things Remembered recently garnered national attention when its crystal relationship photo frame and engravable USB drives were featured in People magazine. Bloggers the nation over also have been raving about the retailer’s new Charm Story line – a line of 50 exclusive engravable charms with personalization at their center. All of these gifts will be among those available at the Stones River Mall store. ••• Burger King is preparing to construct a new location at 2462 S. Church St., between Warrior Drive and Westgate Boulevard near Taco Bell. ••• Highlights of Business News from Murfreesboropost.com: • Middle Tennessee Medical Center Foundation announces Kathy Ryan as the 2009 recipient of the President’s Award. The President's Award is given annually to an MTMC Foundation board member who has demonstrated exemplary service to the Foundation over the year. • Ryan Simpson, vice president of operations for MTMC, recently became a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the nation’s leading professional society for healthcare leaders. • The Murfreesboro law firm of Kious & Rodgers, PLLC recently announced a change to the firm’s name to recognize the contributions of partners, Jay Barger, Chris Holder and J. D. Kious, to the North Maple Street practice. Kious & Rodgers, PLLC is now Kious, Rodgers, Barger, Holder & Kious, PLLC. Erin Edgemon can be reached at 869-0812 and at eedgemon@murfreesboropost.com.