St. Matthews Magazine May 2022

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Children with the condition are affected by many different characteristics, including small stature, poor growth and development, and a depressed respiratory system. Molly was never able to walk, talk or do many of the “normal” things children do, but she lived a full and happy life before she passed away in her sleep on November 2, 2007.

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Robin and JoJo Johnson turned the unimaginable heartache of losing a child into a charitable effort that has helped dozens of families in the Louisville area and beyond.

Founded in 2012, the Molly Johnson Foundation was created to make a difference in the lives of special-needs children and their families. Robin and JoJo wanted to find a way to connect with special-needs children while also carrying on the legacy of their daughter.

“We started the foundation because we

realized there was a need for families with special-needs kids to have avenues to go to for help,” JoJo says. “There were large organizations, but sometimes you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get help from those organizations. We wanted to reach out to people who were struggling with smaller stuff.”

Molly was diagnosed with WiedemannRautenstrauch syndrome at birth in 1996.

The rare genetic disorder is a neurological condition found in less than 100 children worldwide. The Johnsons also had a son, Elliott, born with the same condition in 1993, who passed away at just nine months of age.

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Throughout Molly’s life, the family was turned down several times by insurance companies for medical equipment cost requests. The needs were not always expensive, but the extra cost put a burden on the family.

“We thought people could come to us and we could assign a board member to them, meet with them, and look at their background and what their difficulties are,” says JoJo regarding what inspired the foundation. “We can grant that need to make their life a little better.”

The Molly Johnson Foundation has provided support for numerous families and is often in search of more families to help.

The foundation turns to therapists, teachers and doctors who can help connect them to families in need.

Many of their projects involve making homes more accessible for families with special-needs children. Insurance may pay for a wheelchair for a child, but the family might be left on their own to build a wheelchair ramp.

JoJo has provided professional services through his company Don Johnson Contracting to help families renovate their bathrooms and homes to make them more wheelchair-friendly.

stay, but we’ve helped with other costs while they’re out of town, scared to death because of their child. We can help alleviate some of that worry.”

“I think we’re at an advantage, because being a contractor and the parents of two handicapped children, we know what works in a home and we can make suggestions,” Robin says. “The child is only going to grow and become bigger, and you have to think about that.”

One of the foundation’s largest projects was a complete home makeover that was ready just in time for a family at Christmas several years ago. Many of the services and new furniture pieces were donated for the house,

and the foundation helped cover the rest.

The foundation has been an all-handson-deck effort for the Johnsons, and their daughter Ellie joined the board of directors following her graduation from the University of Kentucky several years ago. Ellie was just two years older than Molly, and the only life she knew was with her sister.

In addition to home renovations, the foundation has also helped three families get a service dog that can detect seizures, provided a portable feeding pump for an 8-year-old boy, and helped with travel costs for families dealing with medical issues out of town.

Following Molly’s death, the Johnsons knew they wanted to fill the hole in their family, and adopted a daughter named Olivia who was born nine months to the day after Molly died. Olivia also participates in events for the foundation, carrying on the legacy of her sister she never got to meet.

“Sometimes we pay for airfare or lodging when families have to go out of state to see a specialist,” JoJo says. “Their insurance might cover the medical treatment and hospital

Ellie is now the special-education teacher in the school Molly attended for six years.

“She’s walking in the clouds,” says JoJo, who

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recalls a conversation with Ellie while she was still in school, saying she’d be excited to end up at Tully Elementary School someday. “She’s so energetic and she’s on the new and cutting edges. She’s so into learning about every one of those kids’ conditions.

We’re really proud of her.”

that alone helps a lot and is invaluable to us,” Robin says. “We didn’t have any foresight as to how this would play out but it was a great thing. Hopefully we’ll help double the families next year.”

The foundation relies on several fundraising events each year including the Black & The passion Robin and JoJo have for helping Yellow Ball each January, the MJ5K run/ walk/stroll in July, and the Beach Bash in special-needs children and their families August. is palpable and provides a great source of comfort for the families they help through In addition to local events, runners have the foundation. represented the Molly Johnson Foundation at marathons in 14 states including “Just to meet other families, share stories the Kentucky Derby Festival mini & and know there’s other people out there -

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Marathon. The foundation also organizes a golf scramble and other smaller events throughout the year.

“We want to give away whatever we raise because it’s all totally 100% to the kids,” Robin says. “We raise it - it all goes to the kids. We’d rather have nothing in the account because we’ve given it all away, and go out and raise more money.”

More information about the Molly Johnson Foundation, including how to participate in upcoming events, can be found at themollyjohnsonfoundation.org.

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chili flakes and sweat about 2 minutes until the onions are translucent. Add all of your greens to begin to wilt them. After they begin to wilt add the ham broth and the liquor. Season with salt and pepper and let simmer for about 30 minutes until they are tender. Finish with a bit of butter.

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May is known for being the time when we honor our moms on Mother’s Day, or don wide-brimmed hats to celebrate the Kentucky Derby.

May is also National Nurses Month.

Take a moment and you will realize that you’ve had many encounters with nurses throughout your life.

They are there when you’re born into this world. They are in the operating room closely assisting the surgeon. They are on the front lines in the emergency room.

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Chris’s mom was a nurse for 45 years and his dad was a respiratory therapist for 30 years. When Chris left high school, he says that he had no desire to enter the medical field. “I remember making comments like, ‘What my mom does is gross,’” he says.

That all changed when Chris was in his mid-20s. He’d been laid off from his job as a bank manager, and it was his mother who encouraged him to set his sights on a career in medicine.

“She said, ‘You should become a nurse because you’ll always have a job,’” he says.

Chris received his associate’s degree in nursing in 2008 from Galen College of Nursing, and his master’s degree in nursing in 2011 from the University of Phoenix. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Sullivan University.

Chris began his career as a bedside nurse taking care of medical-surgical patients. He then transitioned into the float pool, which allowed him to work in a variety of different units in the hospital. After graduating with his master’s degree, Chris began working in hospital management positions. He’s been in leadership roles ever since.

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and then I developed what’s called our transfer center and staffing office,” he says.

“Next I was promoted to director over those departments. For the last three to four years I was in charge of bed placement for the downtown Uof L and Jewish hospitals, and staffing for both hospitals, which, during the pandemic, became even more challenging. I recently transitioned over to be the system director of employee health. I’ve been dealing firsthand with the coronavirus and how it’s impacted our hospitals the last four months.”

Chris says there are many facets to being a nurse.

“They do more than take your vitals and give you a bath,” he says. “Nurses are the ones who stay with you the entire time you’re in the hospital. If you were to look in on our intensive care units right now, those nurses are managing your day-to-day care. Patients may have multiple lines, drips, drains. When you walk into the room, there are computers and monitors hooked up to you, and that nurse knows everything that’s happening in that room.”

Chris is very candid about how COVID-19 has affected his hospital staff.

“It’s tough knowing there’s already a nursing shortage in our country, and dealing with staffing day to day - patients aren’t going to go away,” he says. “We saw our volume increase substantially with the number of COVID patients. When you see your own staff starting to get [COVID], you know you have to figure out a way to take care of

patients. That meant an increased workload on our nursing staff. You want patients to get the best care possible, and when you have to take in higher ratios, you see the stress of the staff. But you’re always going to do what you can to take care of your patients.”

Chris says what hit nurses hard at the beginning of the pandemic was that hospitals weren’t allowing visitors into

patients’ rooms.

They saw a lot of COVID deaths.”

“Patients were dying alone,” he says. “Nurses had a really hard time with that because they were the only one in that room when the patient passed away. Families could FaceTime their loved ones before they passed, but still not being physically able to touch someone as they’re passing away - the nurses had to deal with that over and over.

Tracie’s path towards nursing was a bit different.

She knew from the time she was a teenager that she wanted to go into the field of medicine.

“I actually ended up needing major abdominal surgery when I was 14 due to a

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“It finally came to light that I needed to have it fixed. I’d always been interested in medical things and always wanted to be a doctor, but after being in the hospital I began to realize that the nurses really are the ones who are with you all the time.”

oncology patients, and sometimes I’d go to specialty units like endoscopy or the cancer center,” she says. “Basically you have to be very flexible if someone calls in sick or goes on vacation.”

Tracie says she enjoyed working in the oncology department.

Tracie holds a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Saint Louis University, and she “The atmosphere is a little bit different and is currently working on her master’s degree the patients are so strong and hopeful, and appreciative about their care,” she says. “You in nursing. feel really good about caring for them and helping them get through this hard time.”

Tracie began her career working in the trauma unit at Saint Louis University After working in the float pool Tracie went Hospital in Missouri, where she stayed to the emergency department, where she for three years. That is where she met stayed for five years.

Chris. The Burchetts moved to Louisville in 2012, returning Chris to his childhood “I went there in 2016 and I was at University roots. Tracie then made the transition to Hospital so I was back with my trauma University of Louisville Hospital. Besides patients, and eventually was the charge spending time in the trauma unit, Tracie nurse for my shift for two years,” she says. also worked in the float pool.

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trauma institute doing trauma education,” she continues. “In that role I teach new nurses, I help facilitate the trauma education of all the physicians in the hospital, and I continue to educate the nurses who are there. I also go out into the community and educate EMS and other hospitals about trauma care and how to take care of patients before they come to us.”

One person who is extremely grateful for hard-working, dedicated nurses is Shannon Lynn, M.D., a primary-care doctor with University of Louisville Physicians specializing in internal medicine. Lynn has been a practicing physician for 19 years.

“A wonderful, caring nurse is absolutely priceless to patient care,” Lynn says. “It is the most important part of hospital care.

I believe a good nurse determines the outcome. It’s even harder now for those nurses to achieve the kind of care they want to provide, because care has been fragmented in such a way that it’s often

harder for the nurses to be at the bedside as much as they like.”

Lynn says nurses are the eyes and ears of the doctors when the doctors can’t be with the patients.

“We can’t be there 24/7 and the nurses are, and they are the ones who relay the information to us and tell when to be worried, and it is so incredibly helpful,” she says. “I can’t emphasize enough how important it is that we acknowledge the importance of our nurses at the bedside.”

When asked how the community can show support for nurses and medical personnel, Tracie recommends simply walking up and saying thanks.

“A lot of times we say thank-you to the military and say thank-you to our service workers,” Tracie says. “It’s the same thing, just say thank-you to nurses too.”

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The voice is an awe-inspiring thing, with the ability to make so many sounds, both harmonious and decisive. It can lead a song by way of yelling in a heavy-metal band or creating harmony a cappella.

It’s the simplicity of a cappella that entices the ear to barbershop vocal harmony. And while it may sound simplistic, the effort for a successful barbershop-style sound is as complex as the history behind the groups.

The Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) started as a fellowship group in 1938. It was started as a way to reignite a passion for men harmonizing together, not only musically, but also in a physical gathering. O.C. Cash and Rupert Hall met with a group of men in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the Roof Garden on top of the Tulsa Club, where the entire group would sing together, then break off into multiple quartets.

The movement soon made it to Louisville in 1946, where the Louisville chapter, under the leadership of Fritz Dryborough, a local Louisville businessman, was chartered with 33 men. The group grew to more than 300 men in the early 1950s, entertained with annual shows, and existed primarily for singing and fellowship.

By the late 1950s the numbers had declined. In 1957 Jim Miller, who was to become a Thoroughbred legend, led a group of 25 men who wanted to do more than socialize. They wanted to focus on the craft of barbershop singing with the purpose of becoming a competitive chorus. They took their name, The Thoroughbreds, from a quartet that had disbanded, and the group destined to change the direction of the Society was on its way. According to the official website, barbershop singing is “a style of unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic (the same word sounds

at the same time) texture.”

The Thoroughbreds joined the BHS and competed in what is known as the Cardinal District, which has chorus members in Kentucky and Indiana.

A HISTORY OF EXCELLENCE After the Thoroughbreds won their first Cardinal District title in 1958, a string of successes soon followed. Their first appearance in the International Convention was in 1959, when they finished eighth. They finished sixth in 1960, second in 1961, and in 1962 won the society’s International.

“That began a system of excellence that would set the standard for the Barbershop Society for the next 20 years,” says Troy Lovett, historian and longtime member of The Thoroughbreds.

Indeed, The Thoroughbreds showed that the Louisville area was full of talent. Rules of the international competition state that the winner must sit out for two years before competing again. The dominance and influence of The Thoroughbreds for the years 1961 through 1992 is remarkable. During that span of more than 30 years the group won seven gold medals, seven silver and three bronze.

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In 1978 the Louisville chapter hit a rare exacta when the chorus (The Thoroughbreds) and quartet (Bluegrass Student Union) won gold at the International Convention in Cincinnati. Other Louisville quartets followed, with the Interstate Rivals winning in 1987, the Second Edition in 1989 and Forefront in 2016.

There has been much success though the years, but relatively little recognition in the Louisville area. However, a new relationship with the University of Louisville music department’s archives will help establish a place for The Thoroughbreds and its championship quartets as an integral part of Louisville’s music scene and history.

“It’s been said we’re the best-kept secret in Louisville,” Lovett says.

“We’ve been right here since 1946.”

The group has sung for the prestigious national Medal of Honor convention, Derby events, presidential events, sports events, and many other civic and military functions. In addition, the group has presented an annual show for the community for more than 75 years.

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The Thoroughbreds are about more than just singing. Like the initial idea behind the founding of the society, The Thoroughbreds are a social group with an intent to provide a place for a fraternity of men who like to sing. Membership is open to any male in the Louisville area looking for a place to belong - a beautiful singing voice is not one of the

“You might be surprised as to how popular barbershop and a cappella singing is today,” Lovett says. “While it may not be in the mainstream of the public thought, it is not a secret society, but one embraced by thousands of men worldwide.”

Nationwide, there are chapters with 150 or more singing members, and, thanks to the

popularity of some groups like Straight No Chaser and Pentatonix, there is an ongoing attempt to interest and involve the younger generation.

As with most society groups, the Louisville chapter has seen a gradual decline in membership and participation through the last two decades. Jeff Harper, vice president of fundraising for the Louisville chapter, says the blame is not only on the pandemic (though

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“We have so many things that grab our attention these days,” Harper says.

“Technology has changed the direction of young people’s social lives.”

While the Barbershop Harmony Society is traditionally a male-only society, there has been talk of opening the society to all genders.

“There are women-only chorus chapters as well, but they’re struggling like we are,” Harper says. “A lot of barbershop groups are moving towards allowing women to join, much like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts have opened up their gender requirements.”

The Thoroughbreds have sung in such venues as the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, the Honda Center in Anaheim, and the Bridgestone Arena

in Nashville, as well as local arenas and venues. Their mission is to continue to share their passion for song and camaraderie.

The membership age range goes from early 20s to the oldest member who is 88.

Doug Harrington, a member of the awardwinning Second Edition quartet as well as a championship director in Sweden and the United Kingdom, joined the Louisville Chapter when he was 10 years old.

“The Thoroughbreds are well-traveled and well-known across the country,” Lovett says.

“We have been a part of the Louisville scene not only as entertainment, but in a cultural way for the past 60 to 70 years. That’s something worth keeping around.”

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Recently the group installed a new air filtration system in Jim Miller Hall that includes ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and viruses. This improved the health of the air within the old church and enabled the group to continue renting out the facility for weddings, gatherings and other events.

Rehearsals are scheduled for every Monday evening at 7 p.m. and are open to the public.

Anyone interested in visiting or joining should contact the group via their website or social media pages.

Should you be interested in visiting The The COVID pandemic has been detrimental Thoroughbreds, you can stop by Jim Miller Hall, located at 10609 Watterson Trail, or to social groups, especially singing groups visit thethoroughbreds.org. like The Thoroughbreds. However, the group is one of few in the country that does

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For the holidays, they’re bringing back “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” which is always a fan favorite. Then 2023 will open with the musical comedy “Grumpy Old Men: The Musical,” a show that audience members requested when surveyed.

“We ask our season subscribers to vote on possible productions,” Myers says. “That helps us create a season of shows that we know our audience wants to see.”

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Margaritaville,” featuring all Jimmy Buffett music, including original songs as well as some widely recognizable ones.

The theater’s tiered seating is arranged “in the round,” giving each and every guest a dynamite view of the stage, which sits in the middle of the room.

“This provides an intimate setting not usually found in most theatrical venues,” Myers says.

“Everyone is so close to the stage that there’s not a bad seat in the house.”

At Derby Dinner Playhouse guests dine first and then see the show (both are included in the ticket price). In a normal year, roughly 200,000 people are in attendance for their main stage productions as well as their children’s musical theater performances and concerts. Through the years hundreds of tour buses carrying thousands of visitors from all 50 states and Canada have visited the theater.

Derby Dinner Playhouse typically has about 10,000 subscribers, some of which have been loyal patrons since its opening in 1974. As it turns out, there’s longevity in both their patrons and their employees. One of the coowners began working at the playhouse back when her mom was the owner. They have another employee who was hired when she was 16, and she’s now almost 60.

“She’s never been employed anywhere but here,” Myers says. “We have lots of employees and actors who have been here for 30-plus years. We feel lucky to have a core group of people who all feel like family.”

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Harry Pickens undeniably falls into the latter category.

Finding your niche in life, a passion that keeps you going day in and day out, can often feel like a Herculean task. Some discover one specific direction, whereas others head down several paths that afford them an array of opportunities.

Pickens is a world-renowned jazz pianist, and has been referred to as “Louisville’s musical treasure.” His most recent concert happened this past February, with the Louisville Orchestra’s “Gospel at the Symphony.” He performed “New World A-Comin,” written by the legendary Duke Ellington.

Throughout the years Pickens has collaborated with

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musical greats including Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard and James Moody. He recorded with his group Out of the Blue for Blue Note Records.

He composed and performed the moving piece “The Awakening Heart” for the Dalai Lama when he made a visit to Louisville.

He’s also been featured in a documentary called “Harry Pickens: In the Garden of Music,” which was produced by Kentucky Educational Television, and he’s written a book titled “In Tune: Lessons in Life from A Life in Music.” He also spent nearly a decade caring for his mother as dementia slowly ravaged her mind and body.

Pickens is not only an award-winning performing artist, but he’s also a teacher, a coach, a mentor and a leader. He has mentored thousands through the years as they navigate through life, educational endeavors and careers.

Pickens was born in 1960 in Brunswick, Georgia. He began playing piano when he was about 5 or 6.

When asked how he became interested in playing the piano, he chuckles and comments that considering how long ago that was, it’s kind of like trying to remember ancient Greece.

“My mother played organ in the church, and my grandfather played the trumpet and led choirs, so there was always music in the house,” he says. “There was a piano in the house. My grandfather taught me for a while, then I eventually had a piano teacher.”

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right connections, he does admit that he went through some rough spots when it came to performing.

“Kenny would recommend that I audition for different people,” Pickens says. “If he had a gig he couldn’t make, he’d ask me if I could make it. The way it kind of works is like networking with anything. If you’re confident and you’re a decent human being, older people, more experienced people, will turn you onto things and introduce you to the right people.”

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and spiritual transition and transformation for me,” he says. “I moved across country and kind of started over.”

Pickens stayed on the east coast for several years but says he began feeling burned out, and wanted to do something else besides music. His need for a change in life took him 3,000 miles away to San Diego.

Pickens says he has had parallel careers the entire time he has performed professionally.

“I realized that performing alone wasn’t really enough to fulfill or sustain me,” he says. “I had a different muse. I got to the point where I had been performing so much and I’d been so immersed in it, I didn’t love playing the piano anymore.”

Pickens stopped playing professionally for a couple of years, and began exploring other ways to make a living as well as other ways to express himself.

“The move to San Diego was kind of the beginning of a pretty significant personal

“While I was performing I was also teaching 22:22 at a K through 12 private school in New Jersey,” he says. “A couple of years after I started teaching I noticed many of my students didn’t know how to study or learn, so I started a company in 1983 called Student Success Seminars that were held on evenings and weekends to help high school and college students study well.”

While in San Diego he continued on with that career path, plus he was doing organization and development with company leaders who wanted to create training programs.

Pickens did keep up with his music,

and performed and taught in Southern California for a time, then moved to the south where he taught music improvisation at the University of North Florida. He moved to Kentucky in the late 1990s to help care for his aging aunt as well as his mother.

They’ve both passed on.

Pickens does various performances these days, and is very grateful to organizations who have asked him to perform such as the Louisville Orchestra, but he explains that he is semi-retired from professional performing.

“My musical focus these days is doing music specifically for healing and transformation,” he says.

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Sometimes it takes a person years to figure out their purpose in life and the direction they are meant to go. For others, the path is clear when a passion blossoms from a very early age. Such was the case for Rick Miller, who began working in a hardware store when he was barely old enough to see over the counter. He was introduced to the hardware business through his grandfather’s hardware store located in downtown Louisville, which opened in 1978 and is still in operation. These days his dad and uncle run that store, and Miller and his brother Cody are the sole owners of three other hardware stores.

“It’s truly a family business situation that I was bought up in,” says Miller, 32, who

opened his first store when he was 25 years old. “I’ve been doing this a long time, but it’s what I’ve always wanted to do. It’s in my blood, working in this business.”

He chuckles then adds, “Plus, the NBA and NFL didn’t call me up, so…”

For many years there was a neighborhood hardware store in St. Matthews, but it closed in 2016. For the past five years there has been a void in the area for a friendly, customer-oriented store that makes customers feel heard and seen, not to mention right at home. Miller decided to fill that void by opening an Ace Hardware in St. Matthews in May of 2021.

“I love this location,” says Miller, whose family lives in the St. Matthews community.

“It was somewhere we always wanted to be.

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I think it’s a great area.”

The public could not be more thrilled about Miller’s decision, as they appreciate having a neighborhood hardware store in their community that has exceptional customer service and a huge selection of products, including a wide selection of nuts and bolts.

“Almost every day we have people come in who are working on their vehicle or something similar and they can’t find a certain item anywhere, like a 10-millimeter, fine-thread bolt that’s a certain length,” he says. “They come in here and we have it.

That’s one reason why we carry that large of a selection of all different things, because when people come in we want them to walk out with what they need, even if it’s something small that costs just 50 cents.”

service in a convenient and timely manner.

“We had a guy come in recently with two chainsaws that needed to be repaired,” Miller says. “The local STIHL dealers are a month or two out, but we were able to get to it in two days. The customer was so grateful.”

In his free time Miller likes to play golf, grill out, cook and relax with his wife Brittany, whom he married last year. She’s an interventional radiologist who works in a cardiac catheterization lab. The couple has three little dogs, Buffy, Ellie and Phoebe.

Each day Miller, his brother, his manager Dave Phelps (a 40-year veteran in the field), or someone on their 10-member team can point customers in the right direction for whatever their need may be.

“We are truly a customer-service business,” Miller says. “That’s what people come to us for and that’s what keeps us in business. If you go to a big-box store you don’t get that same kind of personalized care.”

At Ace Hardware they offer small-engine repair, window repair and screen repair basically anything you might need help with when it comes to your house. In addition, they specialize in certain independent brands that many big-box stores don’t carry.

They also carry a larger stock of Weber grills than most big-box stores, as well as all of the parts and accessories that go with them.

Miller admits that running a small business can be challenging, simply because there is so much to do.

“You have to wear a lot of hats,” he says.

“You’re a bookkeeper, an inventory specialist, an IT person. You pretty much have to do everything, but it’s worth it to be able to interact with the community every day.”

Customers love that they offer free delivery and assembly on grills.

“That’s a big plus for people because who wants to lug a grill into your backyard and have to put it together?” Miller says.

Being a neighborhood hardware store means not just providing reliable service at an affordable price, but also doing so with care and kindness. It also means delivering

Miller’s goal for the future is to get the hardware store up and running for the spring and summer seasons since they didn’t really get a chance to do that in 2021.

“Last year a lot of people didn’t know we were open yet and by the time they did it was already fall, so we are looking forward to having a good solid lawn and garden season this year,” says Miller, whose long-term goals include running his dad’s store and maybe another one at a different location. But that’s down the line.

Although they opened in the midst of a global pandemic, Miller counts himself as blessed because they were never forced to close, due to the necessity of the industry.

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staring at that light fixture they’d been wanting to change for a year or more and they were in a situation where they had the time on their hands to do something about it.”

People painted their walls. They built decks and porches. They changed up light fixtures, plumbing fixtures, mirrors and faucets. They spruced up their landscaping. In short, DIY projects hit an all-time high. Through it all, area customers turned to Miller and his team for guidance, suggestions and support.

They appreciated him, and the feeling is mutual.

“WE ARE TRULY A CUSTOMER-SERVICE BUSINESS. THAT’S WHAT PEOPLE COME TO US FOR AND THAT’S WHAT KEEPS US IN BUSINESS.” —RICK MILLER

“Everyone seems happy that we’re here,” Miller says. “When I think about it, I think that’s pretty cool and pretty rewarding that people want us here because we’re certainly happy to be here.”

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