Cordova works with next-door welding school for new sign
The owner of a downtown Lovell counseling service didn’t have to go far when he decided to install a new sign at his office. The solution was right next door.
Charlie Cordova and his wife, Michelle, purchased the building at 235 East Main a little more than two years ago for Charlie’s Eagle Rock Counseling Services. He and Michelle worked for the first two years sprucing up the inside, then decided to tackle the outside late this summer.
First, Cordova hired a friend of the family, Matt MacPeak, to paint the storefront a shade of dark blue. As MacPeak finished the painting project, Cordova was turning to the next step in the project. He had contacted welding school Shiloh Technical Institute next door to inquire about obtaining the former Ink Spot sign that hung for years on the storefront directly to the west of Cordova’s building.
“I had noticed it there for two years, and they hadn’t done anything with it,” he said. “I proposed a project for kids (from Shiloh Tech) to take it down and put it on our building. He (Brett McCoy of Shiloh Tech) was looking for scaffolding to take it down, and we happened to be painting. That’s just what he was waiting for.”
McCoy and welding student Tyliss Hodges took the sign down, and Cordova arranged for a new Eagle Rock vinyl skin for the sign from Wild Edge Screen-printing just a bit further to the west on the same block. All that was left was to install the new sign on Cordova’s building.
“He (McCoy) agreed it would be a good project for his kids,” Cordova said. “I offered to pay for it, but he was just happy to get rid of the sign, and as a non-profit (McCoy could do it at no charge).
“We have a good relationship. We just took care of each other.”
The sign project was finished Monday.