Jim Brewer
In 2008, when owner/operator Tony Drouhard died, Loudonville lost its only automobile machining shop.
That shop was operated in the Parts Plus building at the corner of West Main Street and South Mount Vernon Avenue, in a building that housed a gasoline filling station for much of the 20th century.
There is a definite possibility that the machine shop will be reopened in the future, fulfilling the goal of Grant Portz, Tony Drouhard’s grandson.
Going to the University of Northwestern Ohio
Portz, who is a senior at Loudonville High School as well as president of the Loudonville-Perrysville FFA chapter, has set reopening the shop as a goal after he completes studies at the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima, where he plans to major in high performance technology, with a minor in diesel mechanics.