My cousin used to want to be a painter, but after dropping out of college she decided to become a sculptor instead. My family thought Bess was crazy, but I knew she was just an artistic, sensitive girl who wanted to follow her dreams. I would agree with the rest of the family that there […]

Thanks to the economic downturn the country has been facing, several local businesses have gone under recently. These are places that are well established, in some cases being fixtures in the community for decades. Alas, their time has come and gone, and they had to close for good. It’s sad, I agree, but there is […]

There are a lot more uses for rebar rods and wire ties than you think. Most people never give a second thought to construction. If something needs to be built, you call in an expert. That is fine for people with money, but I never had much of that. If I needed something fixed, I […]

I had to stop in my tracks and call the office immediately, because we were sitting on a huge load of forming wire, bar wire, and rebar rods that we could not seem to sell. When you run your own business, you never really have a day off, not entirely. Even on vacation I might […]