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Chupl -shoes with real soul – Helena native finds new use for old tires to benefit Himalayan Hope Children’s Home

There’s lots of things that could become of an old, disused tire.

Some are ground up into asphalt pavement. Others wind up as fuel for noxious, near inextinguishable fires.

But few of those tires are likely to come from Helena’s Eagle Tire, where Chupl http://chupl.com/ owners Phil and Wendy Sebastian have spent a half-decade repurposing tire treads into soles of shoes sold to benefit Himalayan Hope Children’s Home.

Chupl, the Hindi word for a flip-flop sandal, is the brainchild of the Sebastian’s son Tim, who now lives in India, but grew up playing in the stacks of tires at Eagle.

JAMES DEHAVEN Independent Record

Full Story: http://helenair.com/news/local/helena-native-finds-new-use-for-old-tires/article_098a6329-0935-5bcd-a672-91ffe90ffee1.html

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