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Article: All the right tools.(Sports)(His work ethic takes Marist's Bronson Durrant to Boise State)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2007
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Byline: Shawn Miller The Register-Guard
Braving the weather and the typical child-to-stranger nerves, Bronson Durrant - just 5 at the time - patiently waited in front of the local hardware store, selling bird houses that he built for 10 bucks apiece.
His earnings that summer paid for his first bike - a Huffy Metaloid - as well as his way into the Lane County Fair, among other things.
"My mom blew the rest of it on school clothes," Durrant said.
By the time he was a teenager, Durrant had purchased a barrage of electrical tools to maintain residences for the property management business where his mother, Charlie, works.
He was ...