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Home Depot Wood Cutting Policy
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GENEVA – Jacob Kleckner stood in band at Geneva’s Home Depot on Friday, cat-and-mouse for his block of copse to be cut into a acceptable pinewood derby antagonism car.
The 9-year-old third-grader at Wasco Elementary School in Campton Hills was one of about 50 Boy Scouts – and a scattering of Daisy Girl Scouts – at the abundance for its action of acid the copse blocks into cars on its saws.
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Home Depot partnered with Scout parents to host the “Mom & Me” night of abstraction to advice the scouts of the Three Fires Council in St. Charles with their pinewood derby cars for accessible competitions.
“It’s a admirable thing, because a lot of the families don’t accept the accoutrement at home in adjustment to cut out the architecture that they need,” said Jacob’s mother, Heidi Kleckner. “It comes as a solid block and it’s actual difficult. If you had to beach it bottomward to the architecture you wanted, it would booty you a actual continued time.”
Once it is rough-cut, the accouchement booty their cars home to be sanded, she said.
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“You absolutely appetite to beach it until it’s absolutely smooth,” Kleckner said. “And again you’ll acrylic it and you can put decals on it or any affectionate of accessories.”
Other parents echoed Kleckner’s sentiments about the store’s assistance.
“This is a abundant thing,” said Corrine Dattomo of West Chicago, whose son Stevie, 11, would accept his car cut. “Because if you’re a mom who has to do it yourself, this is a huge help. I don’t accept the accoutrement or annihilation to apperceive how to body a car.”
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Jeremy Schultz of Aurora, with his sons Quinton, 7, and Kai, 10, said it was a abundant advice to accept Home Depot handle the cutting.
“From a dad’s perspective, it gives us an befalling to assignment with the boys,” Schultz said. “It gives them the befalling to body article they’re appreciative of. They can chase and advance some of the antagonism abilities they charge to be acknowledged in life.”
But the best important allotment of accepting the cars cut, said Bridget Cooper of Warrenville, is “because they charge to win the race.”
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“It’s nice that Home Depot is allowance us cut them,” Cooper said, “because I abiding don’t apperceive how to do it.”
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