where have you gone?
Yura played in 43 games and lettered all four years at Notre Dame, seeing action at defensive back and
running back, and he finished his career with 15 tackles on special teams.
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lion jobs in the textile industry have
been sent overseas since 1994. Many
of them land in countries where water
is a scarce resource, yet it takes 718
gallons of water to produce a regular
cotton T-shirt, Yura said.
Growing up near the coal mines of
West Virginia, Yura witnessed what
can happen when an industry dries up
or leaves town.
"What they were saying to the consumer really wasn't true. It's not a
better solution," he said. "It's helping
that company make money, but the
person who is purchasing it is being
duped into thinking this is really a
better thing."
Yura decided to try to start a company that would do a better job of living up to its word. He wrote a busi-
