Streamer’s Tru Hardware in Cranberry Portage is preparing to close its retail business with an end of an era sale starting today.  Owner Wayne Streamer says they have been there since his grandfather started the business in 1928.  He explains he was asked to move it lock, stock and barrel into Flin Flon and become one of the very first businesses there but he chose to stay in Cranberry.  He says his grandfather and father went into partnership when he returned from overseas service in the Second World War and when he passed on his father and mother owned it and he and his brother bought it from them in 1975 and they’ve operated it continuously since then.

Streamer adds even though the retail business will be closing they will continue to operate their satellite installation business.