L-R: Bob Sloan, Doyle Miller and Wesley Beckett

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    On Mar. 11, the versatile employees had some ditch digging to do at Coopwood’s Air Conditioning Inc.

“We do really whatever job needs to be done,” said Miller.  “We pitched in and helped with a parking lot repair job here at the shop.”

One of Miller’s favorite hobbies is cross-country bicycling with his wife. They ride their bikes in Houston, Smithville and other parts of Texas, he said.

Sloan says he is an avid gardener and is planting tomatoes and other vegetables at his home this spring.

Beckett says in his free time, he does a lot of hunting and fishing.  He joined the company more than three years ago when his cousin Dale Temple, lead technician, told him about a job opening.

“We are a whole company of hunters and fishermen,” Beckett said.  “I shot the biggest whitetail of my life this year in Trinity, TX.  It was an 11-point buck.”

In the mornings, Beckett says the folks at the company will sometimes make breakfast tacos from the deer sausage and wild pig.

Estimator Kent Coopwood, son of the owner Michael says his father started the business more than 30 years ago.

“As a kid, I worked a broom in the shop after school,” Coopwood said.  “I came to work for my dad full-time after I graduated from Texas A&M University.”

Coopwood’s Air Conditioning provides air conditioning installation and service for commercial and industrial jobs.   –ab

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