Kids waking up and finding new bicycles under the tree on Christmas morning is as American as turkey dinner and pumpkin pie. But not every child grows up with a bicycle of his or her own.
Brookville resident David Nugent is one man with a mission to change that, not only in his own community but across the region.
“I was born and raised in Indiana but moved to Ohio when I was young,” Nugent, a 1963 graduate of the then Madison High School in Trotwood, said.
Nugent started working for Liberal Markets in north Dayton and eventually moved into management, working for Shearers Foods and for Meijer shortly after the grocery opened the store in Englewood. He moved to Lewisburg after he married and eventually to Brookville.
“I worked a lot of hours at Meijer but then my wife got sick,” Nugent said. “I needed to be closer to home so I started working for McMacken’s here in Brookville.”
Nugent said he first became interested in helping children when he and his wife, Rosemary, opened a store in Lewisburg.
“I really started paying attention to the kids that would come in,” Nugent said. “I had one wall full of nothing but nickel, dime and penny candy jars and sold pop for a quarter.”Nugent’s wife was diabetic and had a condition that caused blindness, which was inherited by their three children, Michelle, Carmen and David. Rosemary passed away in 2009 and Nugent revived a hobby he had as a small boy – fixing up broken […]
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