Miracle Sign founders to retire after nearly 50 years in Forest Grove

For nearly half a century, Miracle Sign has dominated western Washington County's sign business. Walk through downtown and turn your head. Chances are, there's a Miracle Sign in your view. Now, after nearly 50 years, Lynne and Andy Magner are retiring, and the business will shift to a new model. Located at the corner of Elm Street and Pacific Avenue, where it has sat for most of its existence in what was once the Guyton Dairy, Miracle Sign has pretty much been the go-to sign shop for businesses in Forest Grove, Banks, Gales Creek and beyond. That era is coming to a close. Around Thanksgiving, the Forest Grove shop will stop taking new jobs, and it will finish its remaining work by Dec. 31, Lynne Magner said. By Dec. 31, she said, "we will have the signs come down outside the buildings, and the hours will come down off the doors, and there will be no open sign anymore." Dan Magner, the Magners' son, runs the company from a shop in Beaverton, Lynne said.

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