Dennis and Donyce Clement of North Bend recently opened a new business which will provide preventative medicine for auto and truck windshields.
In addition, the North Bend pool fund will benefit for the next six months as a portion of the money made by Fas-Break Windshield Repairs will be donated to the pool fund, Dennis said.
The Clements’ business – Fas-Break Windshield Repairs – is one of 21 such businesses in Nebraska and part of a nationwide company (Fas-Break Glass Repair Systems, Inc.) which is located in Phoenix, Ariz. The other nearest locations are in Fremont, Dennis said.
Fas-Break is a company which provides repair of both cracked and chipped windshields, with the primary benefit to the consumer being if the windshield is repaired it won’t eventually have to be replaced, thus saving insurance companies money and their policy holders, said Dennis.
In the case of most insurance companies the work Dennis does on windshields is 100 percent covered by comprehensive auto insurance and doesn’t cost the vehicle owner anything.
The Clements’ business opened in mid-April and Dennis said he is doing the windshield repair work in the evenings and on weekends, with Donyce taking his appointments and handling the related book work.
Dennis also works full-time for a pig farm northeast of the North Bend area and he and Donyce own and run the North Bend Fitness Center. They have lived in North Bend since 1987 and have two children, Matthew, 12; and Christine, 9.
As part of his hands-on training to become certified by Fas-Break to repair windshields, Dennis said he spent over a three-week period working on glass under the direction of Fas-Break area director Shannon Smith of Fremont.