Iola Chamber of Commerce staff and supporters celebrated Waters Hardware with a ribbon cutting Friday morning during the store’s grand opening.
With events scheduled throughout the weekend, including free doughnuts Saturday for the first 100 customers, there’s plenty of reasons to visit the new store.
Joining the Chamber are store manager Jerry Watson, holding scissors, and assistant manager Nic Zimmerman. Brenda Schlief, a Waters Hardware representative, is on Zimmerman’s left.
Waters Hardware, which began in 1894, now has 31 locations in Kansas, Missouri and South Dakota.
With Waters in town, the shopping plaza on North State Street is now fully occupied.
The store fills the site of the former Westco furniture store, which was destroyed in September 2021 when an 8-inch rain tore through its roof.
