Burts launch computer store after big remodeling project

A new computer business is open in Colfax in the same location where the owner and his wife once ate pizza on a date. Shawn Burt has opened Colfax Computer Services at the former site of Old Whitehouse Pizza.

Since that date in 1995, Shawn and Janni Burt married and have had five children. In 1997, Shawn was hired at the Bank of Whitman in information technology where he worked for 15 years, including seven months on contract work following the transition to Columbia Bank.

Burt opened his store March 19 after a significant remodeling project which included building cabinets and a long counter,...