Mar 10, 2013

Retired Teachers Opening Downtown Gift ShopBy Rick McCrabbMiddletownJournal.com

Middletown, OH – For years, David and Melody Gall’s friends told them to take their passion to the next level — to open a business.

But life got in the way, so the Galls sold their craft items at Barn-n-Bunk in Trenton and at weekend shows.

Then last year, the Lakota School District eliminated its industrial arts program. Because David Gall taught woodworking and small engines, he was out of a job one year short of full retirement.

“It was now or never,” Melody Gall said.

Then she added: “It was now.”

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