![]() “This will be something that they can use, that will last and provide enjoyment for many years. “In the end, I’m truly blessed and excited to see our small community come together for this and be able to provide more than just a monetary donation to the veterans’ home,” he says. ![]() During his service, he has spent 14 years as a C-130 flight engineer and has completed five deployments to the Middle East. Alongside his career in the family business, Layhew has served 19 years in the Air National Guard. “That’s going to cover 21,600 square feet,” Layhew says.įor Layhew, the donation was personal. ![]() Thanks to an additional donation by the local American Legion, A & B Paint Supply’s campaign donated 54 gallons of paint to the veterans’ home. At the end of the month, Layhew announced on A & B Paint Supply’s Facebook page that the store had sold 260 gallons of paint. During the month of February, the Buy 5, Give 1 campaign donated one gallon of high-quality PPG Wonder-Pro paint for every five gallons of paint purchased. With that, A & B Paint Supply set out to help. It was usually the cheapest of the cheap that wasn’t washable and didn’t last.” “When they did finally get funding for repainting, it was always provided by the lowest bidder. “Funding for things like paint was always put on the back burner,” Layhew says. He spoke with a facility representative about the need for a facelift. “It felt nice yet disregarded to a point.” “The place itself felt like a hospital, and not in a good way,” Layhew says. On a recent visit, A & B Paint Supply General Manager Brian Layhew saw an opportunity to make the facility feel less like a hospital and more like a home. For the veterans in its care, the LaSalle Veterans’ Home is a rehabilitation facility, a gathering place and, of course, a home. The facility sits on a residential campus of more than four acres. ![]() The LaSalle Veterans’ Home provides skilled nursing services for more than 180 veterans, including up to 40 special needs veterans. The store’s “Buy 5, Give 1” campaign contributed 54 gallons of paint to the nearby LaSalle Veterans’ Home. Appliances Art Gallery Arts and Entertainment Automotive Bakery Bank Bar Beauty Salon Bicycles Books Business Services Car Repair Clothing Store Coffee Community and Education Computer and Electronics Convenience Store Dentist Doctor Electrician Electronics Energy Farms and Farmer's Markets Feed and Mill Finance Flooring and Floor Care Florist Food and Dining Furniture Furniture Store Graphic Design Grocery or Supermarket Gym Hair Care Hardware Hardware & Lumber Health and Personal Care Home Goods Store Home- Indoor Home- Outdoor Industrial Equipment Jewelry Store Landscaping Lawn and Garden Legal Lighting Locksmith Lodging Marine Mattresses Medical Movie Theatres Night Club Office Supplies & Furniture Other Outdoor Power Equipment Paint Painter Pets Pharmacy Plumber Pool and Spa Powersports Printer Real Estate Record Stores Restaurant Retail RV Service Industry Shoe Store Shopping Signs and Graphics Sporting Goods Tire and Automotive Toys Transportation and Shipping Travel and Recreation Veterinary CareĪ & B Paint Supply in LaSalle, Illinois, offers customers “a paint for every purpose.” Recently, this family-owned business turned what otherwise would have been a slow sales month into an opportunity to sell paint for a particularly important purpose.
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