After a devastating fire in 2023, R&T’s Dinky Diner reopened two years later with an investment from the WEDC Around 6 p.m. on a Tuesday evening in March 2023, Rick Covin and his wife Terrie Bowan got a call from the fire department. Their restaurant, R&T’s Dinky Diner, was in flames, the result of poor electrical wiring. The phone call left Covin numb and his wife in tears. “The building basically burned to the ground,” Covin said. “We had to k…
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