LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A family owned hardware business is donating nearly 100 respirators to help first responders and health care workers in the fight against COVID-19.
Cade Carter, the general manager of Carter's Ace Hardware, said he was inspired to donate the masks after seeing News 6's story on the Yalaha Bootlegging company making hand sanitzer instead of moonshine. “We actually sell them propane that they use to make their moonshine, so we were like ‘Man that’s one of our customers, look what they’re doing,’” Carter said.
Carter said his family wanted to keep that momentum going. He said recently almost 100 respirators arrived to the nine stores his family owns across Central Florida.