Family Dollar finally gets footer in the door

At long last!

Monongah Mayor Greg Vandetta writes:

“They are installing the rebar for the footers today.”

That would be for the Family Dollar Store in Monongah, on Camden Avenue (U.S. 19) at Walnut Street on property formerly occupied by the Huntington Bank, which has been razed.

The Pulice, Fiori and Gumont families took turns living on the property before the home was torn down to make way for the Huntington Bank.

It will be called a Family Dollar Store, even though Family Dollar was acquired by Dollar Tree, which is keeping the Family Dollar name on many of the stores.

The other Family Dollar store is on East Park Avenue in Fairmont across the street from Domino’s Pizza. The one in Worthington is a Dollar General. The one on Country Club Road is Dollar General.

Dollar Tree, whose headquarters is in Chesapeake, Virginia, has 4,900 stores. Family Dollar, based in Matthews, North Carolina, had 1,400 stores. Dollar General, out of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, has more than 10,000 stores.

When the first customer walks into the Family Dollar Store, no one will be more relieved than Monongah Mayor Greg Vandetta.

Getting from the 2014 announcement to opening for business has been more difficult than climbing Mount Everest with an elephant on your back that is carrying a rhino with a load of lumber on its back. You get the idea how difficult this has been and how long it has taken.

OK, Your Honor, I think that’s my last Dollar joke. Maybe.

Guess I’ll have to look elsewhere to fill this blog with Monongah articles. I think the Dollar developments gave me a dozen or so stories for this blog.

And it only took 3 years plus till the Dollar store opens for business. But the official opening will be another story for me to write.

Mayor Vandetta has more patience than Job. Or me.