Owners developed family business

September 14, 2010 | 3:29 p.m. CDT

Don Slate and his wife, Lynne Robertson, talk outside at A-1 Auto Recyclers on Tuesday. Slate and Robertson opened the salvage yard about 30 years ago. It turned into a family-run business when their three sons, Kiffer, Erin and Chad, all started working at the yard. "The boys all grew up in the business," Robertson said.

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