Written by Ben Cox – Locally owned Weakley Watson’s Ace Hardware has gotten the attention of the head of their parent company, in a very good way.
After the monuments at the War Memorial were knocked down in a freak windstorm earlier this year, Weston Jacobs and the staff at Weakley Watson stepped in, in a big way, to raise part of the funds necessary for the memorials restoration.
Weston Jacobs, who runs the hardware store says he got the help of some pretty highly placed people. “I was in direct contact with John Venhuizen, the CEO of ACE and he and his management staff sent down a donation of a few thousand dollars. He also asked if he could follow up after a few weeks and wanted to make sure the stones could actually be raised and see if there was anything else that needed to be done.”
The efforts of Jacobs and his team were amply rewarded, with $10,000 being raised almost immediately. “When the folks at ACE heard that it’d been all raised in essentially a weekend, they were pretty ecstatic. So they sent down a video crew for an ACE promotional video, I don’t think it’ll be any national advertising or anything, they just wanted to follow up and see how it all went.”
Jacobs, and his team, have shown the generosity that Brownwood is becoming famous for and it is being shown back to them as a lesson to the rest of the Ace Hardware Team. A fitting tribute to a generous team of people committed to showing the best side of Brownwood.
