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When cancer strikes, it’s often a life-changing event for the entire family. Such was the case for Tatijana Marsee, who was in fifth grade when her mother was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Her mom immediately went on the defensive and empowered herself through advocacy work with the American Cancer Society (ACS).

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for him. Linn owns the three Hendricks County stores.

least every other day, and sometimes daily, to keep up with her staff and work.

Dairy Queen is a staple in any Midwest town, and Jill Chaote is proud to be the General Manager of three of them: Avon, Plainfield and Clermont.

That was more than 13 years ago and Chaote plans to sit it through to retirement.

She’ll say she can’t do it without good help though, and Avon store manager David Lucas is about as helpful as they come.

Her background hasn’t always been in the sweets business. She worked in accounting for more than 30 years. When the payroll company she was working for closed, Mick Linn approached her about working

“I do it all,” Chaote says. “I do payroll, scheduling, maintenance, accounting, end of the year reporting, taxes, grocery shopping, hiring, firing and marketing.” Chaote works about 70 to 75 hours a week, and she tries hard to hit every single store at AvonMagazine.com / OCTOBER 2019 / AVON MAGAZINE / 7

At 74 years young, Lucas has a food industry background and loves his job managing the store. He doesn’t even mind the 45-minute commute from the southeast side.

“I don’t mind the drive for three reasons,” Lucas says. “One, I love my job. Two, I love my customers. And three, I love working with young kids.” Chaote says that they hire mostly teenagers for their staff. Lucas enjoys filling the role of job mentor to the kids. “Working here in a fast food environment is the best experience for a child,” Lucas adds. “It teaches social skills and work skills. It’s a challenge to get young kids to learn to pay attention to details and duties.” Chaote vouches for Lucas, saying he often will recognize regulars when he sees their car pull in and have their order ready before they even get to the window. “He really is what makes this particular store so great,” Chaote says. “Customers come first with David. He wants to make people happy.” Chaote’s attention to staff and detail have paid off in recent years. The Avon store received the PRIDE (Personal Responsibility in Delivering Excellence) award two years in a row from Dairy Queen’s corporate office. This award signifies that Chaote’s store has achieved a high level of cleanliness and food safety. Once a year, there is a PRIDE assessment that occurs on an unannounced day and time, which includes a surprise inspection. “I take great pride in that,” Chaote says. “I really think it’s because of our management and staff. They really go above and beyond to do everything they need to do to keep the store clean.” Lucas agrees. His system is to give each kid a certain responsibility within the store. One might be in charge of keeping the ceilings clean and the lights working, for example. “It’s really a combination of working together and being a good team,” Lucas says. “I think if you give every employee a little bit of responsibility, then they take more pride in their work.” The store employs mostly teens from Avon,

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Longtime Editorial Cartoonist Gary Varvel Recalls the Journey to a Dream Job Writer / Christy Heitger-Ewing Photographer / Amy Payne

Gary Varvel will never forget the day he walked down the magazine aisle of Danner’s 5&10 and spotted the face of gap-toothed, frecklefaced Alfred E. Neuman. When he picked up a copy of MAD Magazine, something shifted inside him. Twelve years old at the time, Varvel describes the humor magazine as “mesmerizing.” On rainy days, he sketched characters he saw within its pages.

“Oh, it’s terrible,” says Varvel, a Brownsburg resident with his wife, Carol, for 20 years. He might not have had the guts to pursue such a dream were it not for his Danville Community High School journalism teacher, Nancy Sutton. One day she invited Anne Ely from The Indianapolis Star to be a guest speaker. When Ely saw Varvel’s cartoons, she suggested he contact Jerry Barnett, the editorial cartoonist at The Indianapolis News.

“That’s how I learned to draw caricatures,” Varvel says. “I was fortunate in that I wasn’t really gifted to do anything else.”

“I went to a payphone and called him right away, not realizing that the call would change the course of my life,” says Varvel, who later met with Barnett.

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the editorial cartoonist business was a tough one to crack. For two years, Varvel attended the John Herron School of Art before landing a job at a local newspaper in Brownsburg in 1977. Don Richer, the publisher of the County Courier, hired Varvel to work as the production manager. “Don told me, ‘If you draw a cartoon that’s good enough, I’ll put it in the paper,’ but he taught me how to lay out ads and operate the copy camera,” Varvel says. “That job is how I learned the business.” When the County Courier folded a year later, he struggled to find work. He was at the unemployment office when he was paged by Barnett, letting him know that he was recommending Varvel for an artist position in the newsroom. “I went from being unemployed on Monday to Tuesday morning having my cartoon on the front page of The Indianapolis News,” says Varvel, who remained with the paper for 16 years doing maps, charts and story illustrations. Throughout that time, Varvel steadily applied to any opening he found for cartoonist positions. “I was rejected by every single one,” says Varvel, who kept all the rejection letters, an act that not only kept him humble but also offered a healthy perspective. “I learned that losing doesn’t make you a loser,” he says. “Quitting makes you a loser.” In 1994 when Charlie Werner retired from The Indianapolis Star as an editorial cartoonist, Varvel applied for the job. A month passed before his phone rang with news that after two decades in the business, he’d finally landed his dream job. “I about dropped the phone,” says Varvel, who was 37 years old at the time — the youngest in the department. Everyone else was 10 or 20 years his senior, which he relished. “I loved soaking in knowledge from the others who had been around the block a few times.” Later, those people retired, Gannett bought them out and slowly things started changing. “One thing I learned in journalism is that you have to adapt,” Varvel says. “If you don’t change, you die.” He saw many cartoonists lose their jobs because they refused to do color. He found that color was a good thing because it was more adaptable for the Internet. Like all editorial cartoonists, Varvel has been criticized for being biased. OCTOBER 2019

“My world view doesn’t match everyone else’s and that’s okay,” he says. “We can all have different points of view and not throw a fit about it.” He rolled with the punches. He once received an e-mail from a reader who wrote, “You obviously don’t know what you’re doing because this cartoon was the worst.” Varvel wrote back, “You obviously aren’t paying attention because I’ve done much worse than this.” The man immediately fired back, “Okay, that’s hilarious.”

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But there were definitely tough times. Following the 9/11 attacks, Varvel drew a cartoon that encapsulated the honor, pride, sadness and sacrifice that all tied into the tragedy that rocked our nation. It was the image of Uncle Sam carrying a firefighter through the debris. The comic was inspired by a photograph Varvel had seen after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing where a child was being carried by a firefighter. “I thought, ‘How ironic that the firefighters became the victims this time,” says Varvel, noting that 343 firefighters died in the towers that day. He was reminded of John 15:13 about there being no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

“That’s what these people did — especially when the first tower went down,” he says. “They had to know their time was limited when they went in.” Varvel’s editor Andrea Neal was so moved by Varvel’s work that she suggested making the comic into a poster that they could sell to help with the relief efforts in NYC. They printed up 1,000 and booked Varvel to appear on Channel 13 to promote it. When he arrived at work, there was a line around the block with people coming from Kokomo, Richmond and surrounding areas to buy a signed poster. They raised $130,000. Over the course of Varvel’s 24-year career at The Indianapolis Star, he drew nearly 8,000 cartoons. When he began his career in 1974, Varvel estimates there were 200 full-time salaried editorial cartoonist positions in America. Today, he guesses that number has dropped to 20. In 2000, Varvel wrote the book Varvelous. For years, fans have inquired when he would pen a second. Finally, the timing seemed right so just last month Varvel released Drawing the Right Way: A Conservative Cartoonist’s View of the World. It’s a compilation of the last decade, focusing on the Obama and Trump years. Varvel includes a chapter on Mike Pence and another on Hoosier politics. Though he plans to schedule some local signings, fans may purchase copies at Garyvarvel.com.

Since retiring from The Indianapolis Star in January, Varvel has been busier than ever. He illustrated a graphic novel called The Birth of the First Amendment and collaborated on a junior high book called Old Whiskers Escapes. He’s been commissioned by people, near and far, to draw for them, including the Bob and Tom staff to create a poster of their crew. Plus, he still draws four cartoons a week for Creators Syndicate. Earlier this year when MAD Magazine announced that they were ceasing publication after 67 years, Varvel was disappointed. “It’s like losing a friend,” says Varvel, who was sad yet not shocked because he feels the magazine hasn’t been able to reach the next generation of cartoonists. “Honestly, I came along in this business at just the right time,” says Varvel, who feels blessed that he got to live this life. “For me, it was the best job in the world.” Now, however, he looks forward to tackling his next dream, which is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with others by using his talents. In 2014, he co-wrote and produced a movie with his oldest son, Brett, called “The War Within.” “I’ve had people say they came to know Jesus because of the film,” Varvel says. “That’s better than making people laugh. Changing someone’s life for eternity — there’s nothing better.”

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Varvel’s Awards & Accolades • 2018: Advancing American Democracy Award, sharing the award with 2 two-time Pulitzer-Prize winners • 2015: Inducted into Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame • 2012: National Headliners Award for editorial cartooning • 2011: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Cartooning • 2010: National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Best Editorial Cartoonist Division • 2010: Grambs Aronson Award for Cartooning with a Conscience for his Path to Hope series on Child poverty • 2006: H. Dean Evans Legacy Award for community service • 15-time 1st place winner of the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists' Award for Best Editorial Cartoon • 13-time 1st place winner of the Best Editorial Cartoonist in the Hoosier State Press Association Contest

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whole town banded together for whatever philanthropic event there was.”

Watching her mother be a champion for her community lit a fire within Marsee, and by middle school, she, too, was volunteering with ACS.

“She started our first school Relay for Life team,” Marsee says. She also became the point of contact for anyone in the vicinity who received a cancer diagnosis. “If anyone in our town was diagnosed with cancer, they would contact my mom and she would go to their house and talk with them about what ACS had to offer and who they could partner with to get the best treatment,” Marsee says. “Mom was such a great inspiration in our town.” That town, by the way, was Milan, Indiana, made famous in the basketball film “Hoosiers.” “Milan is really small with no stoplights,” Marsee says. “Pretty much the

During college, Mwwarsee studied communications and public relations. After graduating, she became the marketing manager for a printing and mailing company. Though she loved her clients, she missed the philanthropy. Then one day while attending the Indy Hub Community Involvement Fair, she was offered the position of Community Development Manager for ACS. “The number one thing most people don’t usually know about ACS is that they are a national nonprofit that helps on a local level,” Marsee says. “We basically take all the resources and connections we’ve made across the nation and bring that to the local level.” Though through the decades their hands have been in every major cancer research investment, they’ve always been behind the scenes funding doctors, conducting their own research or providing grants and foundational money to hospitals such as Riley or IU West.

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“Our college students and our doctors right here in our home town are actually funding the cancer research, which is really cool,” Marsee says. Though the American Cancer Society has been around for more than 110 years, their programs have evolved through the years. For instance, they had a “look good, feel better” program that helped people working through cancer treatments make sure they felt good about the aesthetic side of things. “This is important because we never want somebody to not finish their treatment because they’re self-conscience about losing their hair,” Marsee says. Now the ACS is more focused on access to care programs. For instance, Hope Lodge is for cancer patients who have to travel for treatments and need somewhere safe and clean to stay for free or at a discounted rate. “Here in Indiana we partner with local hotels who supply us with rooms for the patient and their caregiver so they don’t have to suffer that financial burden,” Marsee adds.

ACS Community Development Manager, Tatijana Marsee

The idea behind the free or discounted lodging is that they want patients to be able to go to whatever location offers the best treatment for their particular type of cancer. ACS has other programs and partnerships that also offer a personal touch. For instance, one partners a current breast cancer patient with someone who has walked that road before.

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“Someone who has been through it themselves knows the ins and outs,” Marsee says. “They can offer tips or suggestions for what to ask the doctor.” In addition, they have a 24/7 hotline that patients can call for support. Their newest program, called Road to Recovery, is where local residents donate their passenger seat and their time to transport patients to and from their treatments. “We have quite a few Hendricks County residents who are Road to Recovery drivers,” Marsee says. “Some are retired. Some have battled cancer themselves.” Robert Sexton maintains that volunteering as a Road to Recovery driver has been the most rewarding thing he’s ever done. He notes that assisting patients when they are enduring a difficult time requires understanding and patience but is so worth the reward. “It’s not a stretch to imagine a friend or family member or even yourself being in this situation,” says Sexton. “So, give the good people at the ACS a call and inquire about the Road to Recovery program. You’ll love it and patients will love you.” The big fundraising events typically take place in the spring and summer, though they fundraise all year long. According to Marsee, Brownsburg is ranked fourth in the state for top fundraising. “We blew our goal out of the water this year by $15,000,” Marsee adds. “Brownsburg and surrounding communities raised $135,000. Greater Hendricks Relay has done great at fundraising.” Sharon Hammer, a member of the Relay for Life Event Planning Team for the past 13 years, is dedicated to ACS’ mission of raising funding and awareness for cancer research. “Relay for Life allows us to celebrate caregivers and survivors, honors those who have lost their battle, brings awareness to children and adults alike, and provides financial support to help find a cure,” says Hammer, who is grateful for Marsee’s fierce devotion to ACS. “Tatijana has been a huge support to each of us providing her expertise, guidance, support and encouragement throughout the months leading up to our relay. We would never be able to host such an amazing relay without her support and the support of the rest of the ACS staff.”

ACS’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Hendricks County will take place on October 5 as October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The funds raised for this event go specifically to breast cancer research. Other fundraising platforms, such as Relay for Life, is all-encompassing for all cancers. The event, which will take place at Washington Township Park, is a noncompetitive walk designed to honor those who have battled breast cancer. Registration starts at 9 a.m. and the walk will begin at 10. “This day is meant to be a celebration,” says Marsee, noting that 90% of their events are volunteer-led. “Volunteers lead these missions throughout the community,” Marsee says. “We’ve had Brownsburg, Avon and Plainfield schools get involved as well.” For instance, Cardinal Elementary in Brownsburg has a Relay Kids Club where the students host their own fundraisers such as Muffins with Moms, Doughnuts with Dads and Breakfast with Santa. “At these events, the kids serve the breakfast and run the activities,” Marsee says. Community members and cancer survivors are grateful for the support they’ve received through the ACS. Hammer says the programs ACS provides for cancer victims, survivors, caregivers and families continues to be a huge source of support for all those touched by cancer. “Everyone knows someone affected by cancer,” Hammer says. Andra Ignas, a 15-year Relay for Life captain, is currently battling the insidious disease for the third time. “ACS has provided me with so much emotional and physical support and resources,” says Ignas, who calls herself a “survivor and thriver.” “It’s wonderful for a community to come together and support one another,” she says. “Tatijana is so passionate about ACS. She makes me want to work harder to continue to raise money and help.” For more information, visit cancer.org, call 317-344-7858, or email Tatijana.marsee@cancer.org.

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Like a lot of people who grow up around a family business, after living and breathing life at Beasley’s Orchard since he was a tot, Calvin Beasley was eager to get away from it for a bit. Absence made the heart grow fonder, as the saying goes, and while studying economics at IU, he had a revelation. “It dawned on me that most people go to work, watch the clock and bolt at the end of the day, but that wasn’t how I felt,” Calvin says. “I saw the farm as this incredible opportunity to do something that was not only meaningful to me but also to my family.” He appreciated how hard his parents worked to build up the business because he

witnessed it firsthand. “When they first started, it was nothing like you see today,” he says. His grandparents, Milton and Irene, actually purchased the original 80 acres of Beasley’s Orchard in 1946. At the time, it was used as a hog farm. Early on, Calvin’s grandparents ran what would now be considered a garden center located in the metal building right off the road. When his grandparents bought the property, the barn, which is estimated to have been erected around the time of the Civil War, was on the verge of collapse. In the mid-70s, Calvin’s dad and his friends renovated the dilapidated structure. In the late 60, early 70s, Calvin’s father, OCTOBER 2019

John, got heavily involved in the family business, and he planted the first orchard. He grew cantaloupe, tomatoes and sweet corn (now Beasley’s also grows strawberries, apples, pumpkins, cucumbers, okra, green beans and asparagus). John met Debbie, and the pair married in the 80s. “My mom brought in retail experience and that’s when the market grew a lot,” says Calvin, noting that around that time Beasley’s started carrying other things besides produce such as jams, jellies and mixes. According to Calvin, the small to mid-sized farms that used to sell to local grocers was no longer profitable when corporate farming took over.

“A lot of the family farms were left wondering what to do,” Calvin says. “Agritourism was an opportunity to keep the farm going.” The Heartland Apple Festival began in 1986 and as the years progressed, priorities continued to shift more heavily towards agritourism. “It became less about having a produce market and more about giving people a destination,” Calvin says. “We’re focused on making ourselves a place where people want to come and spend a whole day and do that multiple times a year.” This fall marks the 33rd Annual Heartland Apple Festival where folks can pick a pumpkin, navigate the corn maze, take a hayride, listen to live music, shop from local food and craft vendors, and play in the barnyard bonanza, which includes a giant jumping pillow, ball zone, and apple cannon. Guests can also indulge in tasty caramel apples and the best apple cider in the state. In the winter, Beasley’s devotes two consecutive weekends to Christmas at the Orchard where kids can get pictures with Santa and parents can purchase gift boxes that include cheeses, jams, jellies, salsas, syrups and honey. Even though they have events scheduled throughout the year, fall remains the cherished season when they host things like Hometown Heroes, Dog Daze at the Maze and Halloweekend. “For the most part, everything we do is building up to fall,” says Calvin, who OCTOBER 2019

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for the railroad as a locomotive engineer for 39 years. Tammi used Bob’s usual train trip he took from Indianapolis to St. Louis for her first book, titled “Murder and Misconception.” The book took two years to complete as Tammi taught herself the ins and the outs of the publishing business. She had fun holding book signings and interacting with fans, who soon began inquiring as to when and if there would be a second book in the series. Immediately the wheels started spinning in her mind. This time the title popped into her head even before the plot took shape. “I decided to write “Bridges and Bodies” about the Avon Haunted Bridge,” says Huggins, who, having lived in Hendricks County for two decades, had passed by the bridge often. In this book, the locomotive engineer — the same man

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who solved a crime in the first book — happens to see what he thinks is a body go over the side of the Avon Haunted Bridge. He reports the sighting to the dispatcher, who says, “If you didn’t hit the body, keep moving.” Ultimately, two bodies are discovered — one in White Lick Creek and another beneath the Danville Bridge. As in the first book, the engineer begins looking into these crimes as well. Tammi, whose past writings were more devotional in nature, enjoyed spreading her wings while diving into this genre. “Mystery writing is very different than other types of writing in that I have to use my imagination far more,” Tammi says. “Other writing I’ve done takes something that may have happened in real life whereas with fiction, some is made up and other parts are based on facts about modern-day railroad life. With this book, the setting is true but the storyline is made up.” She calls the process of fiction writing “freeing,” and she has upped her writing goal to two mornings a week. Doing so enables her to create the book scene-by-scene and still provide ample time to mull over in her mind what the characters might do next. Author, Tammi Huggins

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When Josh Royer was a master gunner in the National Guard, he showed soldiers how to build weaponry. He didn’t realize those same skills would serve him perfectly as owner of iShop Repair in Avon.

Royer and his wife Britney base their business on the principle of helping people. Initial diagnoses are free, so he urges people to simply bring in their device if they have a question.

iShop Repair, owned by Josh and Britney Royer, offers repairs on Apple products, including iPhones, iPads, iPods and computers. They also sell accessories and refurbished devices.

“Obviously, we are sales here, but we never attempt to really sell,” Royer says. “We listen, we find out what they want, and we give them options. I have no problem sending them to a competitor or somewhere else if I genuinely can’t help. I just want to take care of people.”

As dependent as most people are on their devices, Royer says business is good. “We stay busy enough,” Royer says. “We primarily stick to Apple so that we can offer a

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the receipt. They encourage anyone with any kind of question about their device, even if it’s not an Apple product, to just pop in. “Most of our fixes can be done within an hour,” Royer says. “It happens so often that people come in thinking everything is lost and there’s no hope. Just come in. It’s probably a simple repair. When we do that, people’s mood changes and their life is better. And we like that.” They also do a lot of help with iCloud, sometimes sitting with customers for up to an hour to make sure they understand how it works. Royer also emphasizes it’s easier to help customers because his hands aren’t tied by a bigger company pressuring him to sell devices and plans.

“All of that is customer service,” Royer says. “We don’t charge for that.” Royer graduated from the University of Southern Indiana in 2006 with a degree in communications and served in the National Guard completing two tours in Iraq. When he returned from Iraq the second time in 2008, the world felt different. “The world was empty and jobless,” Royer says, referring to the recession. “Evansville was a dark place. I needed a bigger city with more opportunities to start a life.” Royer moved to the west side of Indianapolis, where he met his future wife Britney at the Avon Target. She was a hairdresser, and Royer was working part-time at Medco. At the time, Royer had given his brother Austin a new 3G iPhone. Royer took Austin’s old 2G phone with a cracked screen and, much to his surprise, was able to sell it on Craig’s List for $100. The brothers, who had grown up with a “decent garage full of stuff,” always loved to tinker. So tinkering with phones became an interest and a natural hobby. Royer began to do some research, got parts on eBay and began treating his transactions as his own trade school.

“I took out $500 I had saved up to get started,” he says. “I was going to break some stuff but I was going to learn some stuff too.”

The couple truly enjoys working together while also connecting with the community every day.

The first time Royer took a phone apart, it reminded him of taking apart a military weapon. The process was the same, keeping all the tiny parts in a very precise order. He became more efficient, using YouTube and driving all over town picking up phones and parts he found on Craig’s list. Soon he found that he was working 20 hours at his part-time job and 40 hours repairing phones.

“The most fun thing has been watching our relationship grow and our children growing with us,” Britney says. “We just work really well together, and we don’t let outside things interfere with that.”

He partnered with a friend named Dustin, who had also been doing repairs. Dustin knew the ins and outs of the business side, and together they opened the iShop in December of 2012 in a little strip mall in Avon, no more than 500 square feet in size. They put everything they made back into the business. Once the business became sustainable, Royer revisited a dream of his — to become a firefighter. He was hired onto the Wayne Township Fire Department as a full-time firefighter in July 2016. Austin and Britney currently run the store and are the face of the business to the community while Royer pops in from time to time.

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She loves connecting with customers each day, comfortable with the customer service aspect of the business because of her experience as a hairdresser. “I greet people, I make it bubbly and fun,” she says. “I love being on the frontlines with the customers. It’s in my blood.” When they were able to move the iShop to its current location on Rockville Road in 2014, they had been married a year and were expecting their first child. But they were devastated when they became victims of a robbery one week after they moved the store. Everything inside was stolen. “We bucked up, called insurance and from there started the hustle again,” Britney says. “We want this really bad. We hustle hard.” The company boasts seven years of being in a

brick and mortar and eight years of being in the industry. The Royers are most proud of their focus on family and customer service. Austin, who can remember fixing phones in class for his classmates, truly enjoys the satisfaction of helping customers who often come in completely distraught over a broken device they depend on so much every single day. “It’s just really nice to see people come in here and leave happy,” Austin says. “Most people’s phones are their lives and when something happens to them it’s catastrophic.” Britney also enjoys impacting people who come into the store. She distinctly remembers helping a customer once who came in visibly distraught. Her son had committed suicide, but she couldn’t access her phone, which had everything on it from his last moments to his last voicemails.

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“I connected with her so much,” Britney says. “I just wanted so bad to help her. We were able to recover some of it, and she started breaking down and then I was crying because I was so happy we could help even a little. Yes, it’s just a phone, but to some people, it’s their life. To be able to make that function again for them and for the relief to show on their face is just awesome.” Their emphasis on community shows in their involvement, as they’ve given to the Avon High School football team, the band, and they offer Student of the Month dinners at Charbonos. “We put all our advertising and marketing money into the community,” Royer adds. Royer wants customers to know their business is appreciated so all returning customers get a 10% discount.

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