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Retailer helps preserve the past HEMLY HARDWARE OWNER’S CLE VER WOOD KEEPSAKES KINDLE SHARED MEMORIES FOR HIS COMMUNIT Y. By Tim Burke
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reserving the past for the future – the old Ledgemont High School remembered.” With that thought, this Midwest hardware store owner decided to create a memory for the ages. Chris Hyatt, owner of Hemly Hardware, a Do it Best dealer in Thompson, Ohio, last year purchased the abandoned Ledgemont High School next to his store and got to work renovating it to house a new standalone rental center and other business operations. Hemly Hardware “There was not much left in the school, everyowner Chris Hyatt thing was gone or emptied out,” said Hyatt. holds cut pieces of But as a Ledgemont alum, he couldn’t help but his old high school get a little sentimental. gym floor, which he “The gym floor was almost 90 percent destroyed turned into a piece of memorabilia. from water damage,” he said. “I thought it would be
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