After 45 years of helping students pursue their dreams, woods teacher Mark Schirmer is retiring to pursue one of his own.

“I’m going to create an Etsy store,” Schirmer said. “I go to holiday open houses and sell stuff and people have been very receptive to it. They tell me that I need to do an Etsy store so that I can get world wide and I can sell all this stuff. I want to do high end, like jewelry boxes, furniture, stuff like that.”