A haphazard of things may come to ...

A haphazard of things may come to mind when you think about visiting a coin laundry, if it were not that "a day at the beach" is not usually united of them. Well, united Indiana operator has done her best to change that.

"On the dreariest of days outside, we have a bit of heaven onward the beach in here," says Ann Bates, proprietor of Life's a Beach Wash and Tan, a 3,100square-foot laundry in Monticello, Ind. The laundry was an honorable mention award winner in this year's Coin-Op Beautiful competition.

Bates says she has carried the beach theme from beginning to end In addition to having a specific