Acing it
Owners Andrea Visker and Josh Fanning and store manager McLain Fanning stand in Royal City’s new Ace Hardware store, which opened in September.
Joel Martin/Columbia Basin Herald
The exterior of the Ace store in Royal City, which opened in September.
Julie Lybbert, left, and Andrea Visker go over some items in the pet and livestock supplies section of the new Ace store in Royal City. Lybbert, who recently moved back to the area from the west side, has raised animals before and knows their needs, she said.
Manager McLain Fanning (left) helps a customer in the plumbing section of Ace Hardware.
When it comes to business, small towns often face kind of a vicious cycle. Many chains won’t locate in a community below a certain population, which means people have to drive to a larger city to shop. And the more shopping they do out of town, the fewer things they buy in their hometown.
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