Hardware business runs in Jarms family

Between offering pointers on inventory and billing to his new bookkeeper, Cheney hardware store owner Tom Jarms marveled that it's hard to believe his Ace store has been in its new location for nearly two years.

"We started moving on Dec.15, 2013," Jarms said of his current store, the third location at which he has worked in the family business started by his father, Ron, in 1972.

The new space, formerly the Ben Franklin store, gives off the illusion of being much larger, but that's due to the ceiling being higher and the layout. "We went up about 20 percent in sales floor," Jarms said.

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