CHUCK GROOTERS
Grooters Isn’t Retiring Type
By Scott Payne
Published: December 16, 2002
Chuck Grooters shows off a set of Syde About carts, an invention his 80-year-old jack-of-all-trade shop has invented and patented and is now producing. GRAND RAPIDS — By all current notions, Chuck Grooters should be retired and his firm, Grooters Machine Shop Inc., shouldn't even exist. In this high-tech, throwaway age, there's just no need for a fix-anything-and-everything shop, right? Well … wrong.

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