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Local businesses, VFW and Veterans Independence Project team up to gift Maryland veteran with a car
One Maryland veteran who said he had “lost all hope” and was facing homelessness said he “had no idea what was gonna happen… I didn’t how know I was going to pay rent, how I was gonna get around.” Then he got help from a Carroll County veterans group. (Facebook) WESTMINSTER, Md. (Tribune News Service) — Westminster veteran Anthony Morrissette several months ago found himself carless, unemployed, and on the brink of homelessness. Morrissette, 40, was quickly able to find a job with help from the Carroll County Veterans Independence Project, but a job is no good without reliable transportation. Morrissette said the CCVIP went above and beyond with long-term…
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Auto repair shop owners celebrating first year in business in the Falls | Local News
When they made a decision to get into the auto restore business enterprise with each other, a single of the first points Doug Jones Jr. and Alex Youthful experienced to make a decision was what they ought to phone their garage on Main Street in the Metropolis of Niagara Falls. Youthful proposed they borrow from a well-known music by the rock band AC/DC and “Thunder Struck Automobile Repair” was born. “We have been heading by means of names and Alex said, ‘What about thunder struck? I type of considered about it and I mentioned, ‘Yeah, I like that’ and that’s what it turned out to be,” Jones recalled. On March…
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Jason’s Auto Repair, 9 years in business and counting | Local News
Jason Campbell, owner of Jason’s Automobile Maintenance, positioned at 334 Crossroads Drive, Mountain Town, TN 37683, behind McDonald’s, has been in business enterprise because October 2014. Open up Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jason’s Automotive is a entire-company restore shop sans transmission and bodywork. Campbell started working for Levi’s business right out of higher school. About a calendar year prior to they closed, the personnel experienced fashioned a union, Campbell recalls. In 1999 they shut their facility down, but not with no supplying their personnel an prospect to much better them selves. Levi’s gave the staff they were laying off the alternative of heading to a trade…
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Family owned auto repair shop to nearly double in size | Local News
Scott and Wendy Bean created their automobile restore and tire heart, Scott’s Garage, in 2016 and previously want to increase on to their developing. The Beans prepare to create a 2,400-square-foot addition to their unique setting up at 514 Coombs St., just a number of blocks southwest of downtown Lebanon. The addition will virtually double the spouse and children business enterprise started by Scott’s father, Dave Bean, in the 1980s. Dave’s Car Repair operated on a smaller sized scale in rural Lebanon, and Scott grew up working in his dad’s store and finally took more than. But he and Wendy desired a larger constructing when his father died about 10…
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Green Bay man charged with threatening to ‘shoot up’ local auto repair shop terrorist threats
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – A 26-year-old in Green Bay was charged for allegedly threatening to ‘shoot up’ a local auto repair shop over an alleged incident back in February. According to a criminal complaint obtained by Local 5, 26-year-old Brandon Johnson was charged with making terrorist threats to an automotive repair shop. On November 18 around 10:30 a.m., authorities were made aware of a man who was making threats to ‘come and shoot up’ a business. When an officer arrived, the owner of the business said he was contacted by a woman who knew of texts her son was receiving about shooting the repair shop and its employees. The…
