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Allison's son, Pete, took over management, but by all accounts service deteriorated. Customers were ordering products but never receiving them. Their repeated calls to the company went unreturned.SecurityAllison Door Sales was on the verge of closing last fall.Boarman said he hopes to expand his service in Lancaster, Yorkand Chester counties, Allison's former service area. While technically Allison is no longer a separate company, he has no plans to stop using the name.The filibuster is being abused in Senate. Its use is further dividing this country. Partisanship needs to take a back seat to working for the good of this country - a healthy economy, education for all that desire it, good health.He arranged in November to buy Allison's brand and its customer base of 25,000 clients, and immediately began setting matters right.Outside advisers can help family business owners maximize their chances of a successful transition to new leadership, inside or outside the family, Cook said.I've been a part-time resident here for 17 years and have lived elsewhere in mountains and serious hills. I am constantly amazed, 95 times out of 100, at how drivers descend from hills. They ride their brakes all the way down.It was with great shock and sadness that I read the article in The Gazette about the death of Kristina Dubovik.PeytonPolice said the teenager has been knocking on doors and asking for money for a sponsored bike ride in aid of cerebral palsy charity Scope.The federal campaign finance laws should be changed to permit campaign contributions only from residents of the district that the office will represent. In my opinion, it should be further restricted to registered voters of the district.But the charity has no such event arranged.Arriving behind me was a gentleman and his family in a SUV. He checked out my problem. I told him I was calling my son to stop by on his way from work. He insisted he could fix my flat, so I finally agreed. He then insisted I should join his wife and boys in their warm vehicle.The Lancaster County garage door installer had fallen on hard times since the death a few years earlier of its founder, Stanley Allison.God bless you and your family. We should all be very thankful for our servicemen and -women everywhere. The gentleman was stationed at Pete Field and his wife at the Air Force Academy hospital.Beverly KleinRe: "In wake of shootings, media need to find forgotten majority," Jan. 15.Colorado SpringsPeg LeClairI've never had to replace brakes for more than 50,000 miles on any car I've owned.By the end, people were leaving sticky notes pleading for service on the door at Allison's business office, to no avail, Dan Boarman said.Those who had paid Allison a deposit for an installation had their contracts honored, he said. Central State installed the doors, provided the customers agreed to pay the remaining balance, he said.Charles PeterieThe latest Quinnipiac poll shows only 15 percent of voters believe the Giffords shooting was due to heated right-wing political rhetoric. Sirota finds himself in that minority and just can't give it up.The teenager is thought to have struck on January 13 and is also wanted in connection with a garage burglary in the Birkby area on the same day.Helping a stressed strangerWhile most accidents are just as the word suggests, accidents, crashes caused by running red lights are completely avoidable. The most common excuse given for running a light is "I was in a hurry." In reality, the probability of being stopped 100 yards farther at the next light or getting caught behind slow traffic is very high. Not a lot of time will be saved.Allison's difficulties after its founder's death don't surprise succession planning experts. Only 30 percent of family businesses survive into the second generation and only 12 percent survive into the third, according to the Family Business Institute, a Raleigh, N.C., consulting firm.Landon DuVallBoarman, president of Swatara Township-based commercial and residential garage door installer Central State Distributors, said he was confident he could restore Allison's formerly sterling reputation.Drivers scare acne off boy's faceUpon completion I offered him a nice token for his work, so he could enjoy a nice dinner with his family. He said no.However, there were no remaining employees when Central State took over, Boarman said. Remley said Allison laid her off last January.All we really needThe headline was that contributions to candidate Bach were largely from city big shots. However, thirty percent of his contributions were from Wichita, Kan. My immediate thought was, "Why are people in Kansas interested in the Colorado Springs mayoral election to the tune of $10,000?""Service was always great," he said."We do about 20-plus transactions in Lancaster County a day," Boarman said.People in KansasWhoever you are and your family, I thank you over and over again for helping a stranger in stress.We live in Peyton, and Kristina delivered our newspaper. She was the best newspaper deliverer we have ever had. She always went out of her way to drive up our driveway and put our paper next to our garage door - amazing service. During one snow storm I could not find our paper and called her to ask her about it; she immediately recognized my address and told me where to find the paper.
Jerry Neff
Author: Letters
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