Special to Wesson News
With the help of other Wesson businesses and residents, Grace-Foam Solutions spotlighted its services and, in the process, helped boost commerce throughout the town in a unique grand opening and ribbon-cutting.
For its special ceremony and celebration on Friday, December 6, the company solicited community involvement, inviting businesses, organizations and residents to not only attend the event, but call attention to their work and contributions to the town through donations that could be used as special gifts for everyone on hand.
Gift tags were made for the donations, which included, among other things, meals, baked good, gift certificates, professional consultations, products, business services. They were hung on a Christmas tree for those in attendance to pick one that revealed a gift.
The idea was to turn a grand opening focused on one new business into a fun event that promoted other local businesses, service providers and individuals and motivated people to buy from them or use them.
Grace Foam Solutions on Highway 51, operates out what local folk still call the“old Sunflower Grocery store” and housed a Halloween season haunted house that brought visitors to town for several years.
The company, which distributes spray-foam insulation products of Largo, Indiana -based Central Urethane is the business dream of Ricky Breazeale, who settled in Wesson nine years ago with his wife Jessica, a local native, and Brent Duguid, who came here with his wife Stephanie 16 years ago when she was hired for an executive position at Co-Lin and later himself became Dean of the college’s Career, Technical and Workforce Education (CTE) division.
GFS company currently distributes its foam product in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia and Tennessee through contractors who install them. It has two other locations in Boonville and Hattiesburg. Brezeale started the company in September 2023 and Duguid came on board as a delivery driver in January 2024 to become part owner Brezeale named the company to reflect his values and provide the basis for its motto, beliefs and vision, and Duguid concurred.
“Since we are children of God and covered by His Grace, we get the opportunity to share this message of Grace with customers, vendors and the entire community,” says Brazeale. “This isn’t just a business, but a ministry, too,” said Breazeale.
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