Bill Jarms is still pumping out the work

Nothing like getting tossed into the water to see if you can swim.

That might have been how Bill Jarms felt the day he learned his dad, Ron, was not coming back from vacation. All of a sudden the pump business that was carved from the family's hardware store was all Bill's responsibility.

Ron Jarms ran the pump business from 1972-1991, Bill Jarms said. It was more out of necessity than want.

After a career in retail, Ron Jarms moved from Iowa to Cheney in 1972 when he bought the former Edgett brothers hardware store. "Technically the pump business started fairly early when my dad just bought t...