DAYTON - You’ve seen the handiwork of Bill Merker’s third-generation business all over - railings around small, traditional homes in historic neighborhoods, driveway gates of the new country estates for the affluent, fencing at restaurant patios. There’s hundreds of miles of steel out there, decades of customized metal bending, welding and finishing at Merker Ornamental Iron Inc., 317 S. Findlay St. Merker, 49, says business doesn’t slow down no matter what tricks the economy is up to. Gates, fences and railings - and their upkeep - don’t go out of style. Work is steady through boom and...
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