Nakad, who owns Fall River Convenience\u2014better known to many locals simply as Mason\u2019s on Fall River Road\u2014mentioned the need to Terry Morris, a new entrepreneur. It is located at 1080 Fall River Road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI mentioned to him couple months ago that I was looking to have a sign for getting the new resident’s attention especially that the store is little far away from the road,\u201d said Nakad. \u201cPeople said that they\u2019re always missing the store because there is no sign for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTerry said do not worry about. I am going to make a beautiful unique sign.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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And so, Morris, who has started TM&K Milling in Windsor Junction, began his task. The K in his company name stands for Kahlua, Morris\u2019 four-legged sidekick that does more sleeping then delegating what should be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Using some old maple trees from a neighbour of Mason\u2019s, the new sign has come along nicely. Photos of the new sign and its progress as it was built has been shared widely on local community Facebook pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cReally what he is doing there is getting everyone attention and a lot of compliments about it already,\u201d said Nakad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Morris is happy to help. He said the sign will comply with all HRM rules, set back from the sidewalk that runs adjacent to the road on Fall River Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI told him if I could put TM&K Milling and my phone number on the sign, I would build him it,\u201d said Morris, in between measuring and putting some finishing touches on the lower part of the sign. \u201cIf I can get, even a small increase, in business for him I will feel that my task has been fulfilled.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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[adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”30″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sign is sized as 78 inches wide by 80 inches horizontal. The sign itself is made of two by 10 by 10s cut in half, to make it five feet. It\u2019s biscuit jointed and then glued, so he got a friend that brought him two metal straps to wrap it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe came back with the straps, and all I had to do was hook it up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Morris, a retired Military veteran who had time at CFB Gagetown, said the design is made solely on what he had available, accumulating most of the stuff over a few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI never had an idea how I was going to plant it until the neighbour invited me up to get her maple tree,\u201d said Morris. \u201cIf I didn\u2019t have that maple tree, I wouldn\u2019t have the footing and shape single.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said the sign is also the best piece of advertising he, as a new business owner, could get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPeople can see what I build, not wondering if I can,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s beneficial for him to help build his business with new residents, and for me as a picture tells a thousand words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen you have a big picture, it tells a thousand big words.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nakad is grateful to Morris for what he is doing. Currently, because of COVID19 and being back off the road, Mason\u2019s isn\u2019t doing quite as well as it was pre-COVID19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI can’t thank him enough for what he is doing,\u201d said Nakad. \u201cI have a business that is not doing well lately, and I got couple offers to sell it the last couple years, but for me and for a lot of people in our community this store means a lot. It\u2019s the community\u2019s store.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Morris said he hopes the new sign will be noticeable to the motorists that zoom up and down Fall River daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe ones going up and down that aren\u2019t from here, who don\u2019t know the store is here, they will know that it\u2019s here now thanks to the sign,\u201d Morris said smiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”93″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”105″] [adrotate banner=”95″] FALL RIVER: Little did Mehsen Nakad know when he made a mention of the need for sign to grab new residents\u2019 attention of his store\u2019s location to a customer, that the new sign would generate such community interest. Nakad, who owns Fall River Convenience\u2014better known to many locals simply as Mason\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[102,1963,1964],"class_list":["post-20498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-fall-river-road","tag-goodwill-gesture","tag-masons-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/0777B9CC-E368-437C-B81C-EA99A06AEC52-1024x768.jpeg\")