Working 'For the Kids'

"I was involved with a committee whose job it was to evaluate our volume, our use of equipment, use of the site and a few other factors," Hale explains. "And we had three choices: go up in size, maintain our size or shut down."

The committee engaged in a six-month study, monitoring the performance of the facility. When it was all over, it was decided that not only should the shop stay where it is, but that it also needed an infusion of new equipment. Hale is now in the process of bringing in a laminator, a three-hole drill and a shrink wrapper to package the copious amount of output more efficiently.