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POUND COUNT Several animals are available at the Yankton Animal Shelter. For more infor- mation call the Yankton Police Depart- mentʼs Animal Control Officer, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday at 661- 9494, or 668-5210. Animals available for adoption in- clude: • a spayed 2-year-old female Blue Heeler mix; • a mostly black pitbull mix puppy; • a dapple-colored male Doxie; and • a yellow and white kitten. DAILY RECORD POLICY The Press & Dakotan publishes police and sheriff reports as a public service to its readers. It is important to remember that an arrest should not imply guilt and that every person is pre- sumed innocent until proven otherwise. When juveniles are released from jail, it is into the care of a parent or guardian. It is the policy of the Press & Dakotan to publish all names made available in the police and court re- ports. There are no exceptions. ARRESTS • Michael Woodraska, 47, Sioux Falls, was arrested Tuesday on three warrants. • Marlene Woodraska, 41, Yankton, was arrested Tuesday on two warrants. • Robert Reid Jr., 22, Yankton, was arrested Tuesday on a parole hold. • Nelson Reeves, 21, Sioux Falls, was arrested Tuesday for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, pos- session of marijuana and a warrant. • Luke Lloyd, 34, Yankton, was ar- rested Tuesday for simple assault (domestic). • Tylor Sealey, 22, Yankton, was ar- rested Tuesday on two warrants. ACCIDENTS • A report was received at 3:41 p.m. Tuesday of a parking lot accident in the 3000 block of Broadway. • A report was received at 9:08 p.m. Tuesday that a 2003 GMC Envoy was struck by an unknown vehicle in the Yankton High School parking lot. • A report was received at 11:25 p.m. Tuesday that a man hole cover had been removed at the intersection of Francis St. and Donohoe Boulevard. A Honda CRV struck the hole, and it damaged the vehicleʼs gas tank. A large amount of gasoline was spilled on the roadway. Approximately $1,000 dam- age was done to the vehicle. • A report was received at 5:52 a.m. Wednesday that a car struck a garage door in the 300 block of Northern St. The individual had exited the vehicle before putting it in park, and it rolled for- ward into the door. • A sheriffʼs office report was re- ceived at 8:44 a.m. Tuesday that a trailer pulled by a vehicle driven by a Vermillion man was struck from behind by a 2006 Chevy Silverado driven by a Beresford man along Highway 50. Both vehicles belonged to the same con- struction company. Estimated value of the damage to the trailer was $500 and $3,200 to the Silverado. • A sheriffʼs office report was re- ceived at 5:43 p.m. Tuesday that the 16-year-old female driver of a 1997 Chrysler Town and Country swerved on Deer Boulevard just south of Highway 314. The vehicle rolled three to four times. The driver and an 18-year-old passenger were taken to the hospital with injuries. INCIDENTS • A report was received at 5:48 p.m. Tuesday of a domestic assault in the 800 block of Burleigh St. A male was arrested. • A report was received at 10:46 p.m. Tuesday that three vehicles were vandalized in the 2800 block of Francis St. Racist comments and other graffiti were written on them. Juvenile males were suspected as the culprits. • A report was received at 7:48 a.m. Wednesday of the theft of two pairs of sunglasses and $100 from a vehicle parked in a garage in the 2200 block of Valley Road. • A report was received at 11:12 a.m. Wednesday that an animal would not let a mail carrier by in the 200 block of Murphy Lane. • A report was received at 11:54 a.m. Wednesday of a forgery. • A sheriffʼs office report was re- ceived at 6:27 p.m. Tuesday of vandal- ism near 446th Ave. and 298th St., Irene. CRIME STOPPERS Anyone wishing to report anony- mous information on unlawful activity in the City of Yankton or in Yankton County is encouraged to contact the Crime Stoppers tip line at 665-4440. THE PRESS & DAKOTAN WEATHER CENTER DAILY RECORD PAGE 2: THE REGION PRESS & DAKOTAN n THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013 Use your smart phone to scan this QR Code to take you to our e-Edition. (Firefox is the preferred cell phone browser) 7 6 5 3 2 7 5 4 3 7 4 1 7 8 6 2 7 5 1 8 9 3 4 9 1 2 9 6 5 8 8 1 9 1 9 4 7 5 8 3 4 1 6 6 8 7 5 3 4 2 3 4 1 2 9 7 5 9 2 7 1 6 3 1 8 9 5 4 2 4 5 6 9 3 2 8 4 5 7 4 9 7 1 5 2 6 8 2 4 6 7 9 3 2 9 9 1 6 8 5 8 6 4 3 7 2 1 7 3 8 1 6 9 3 8 5 1 su do ku Fill the puzzle so that every row, every column, and every section contain the numbers 1-9 without repeating a number. © 2008 KrazyDad.com Check tomorrow’s paper for the solution to today’s puzzle. Yesterday’s Solution EASY CH BOOK 47 #2 EA BOOK 47 #3 P RESS & D AKOTAN YANKTON DAILY Yankton Mall Clarence Vogt 80th Birthday Celebration OPEN HOUSE Saturday June 15 St. John’s Lutheran Church • 1-4pm Fellowship Hall 1009 Jackson St. Yankton, SD We are so grateful for all the kindness shown to us in many ways during our 50th wedding anniversary. We appreciated it very much. God’s Blessings to each of you. With Love, With Love, Don and Carole Don and Carole Hurley Hurley WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS 2 BY 2: Red Balls: 1-26, White Balls: 4-6 MY DAY: Month: 5, Day: 15, Year: 50 PICK 3: 9-6-7 PICK 5: 01-02-15-29-35 POWERBALL: 16-22-23-42-55, Power Ball: 32 HOT LOTTO: 18-22-28-30-39, Hot Ball: 18 WILD CARD: 11-15-17-23-29, Wild Card: JC DAKOTA CASH: 02-04-07-21-35 Parkston Farmer Awarded $1M In Fraud Case OLIVET (AP) — A Parkston farmer has been awarded more than $1 million against a former Watertown cattle seller for misrepresenting the origin of a shipment of cattle to his farm. A Hutchinson County jury awarded farmer Curtis Huether $100,000 in damages and $1 million in punitive damages against David Bisson. Huether accused Bisson of misrepresenting the origin of a ship- ment of cattle to his farm in 2008, which resulted in Huether’s cattle being quarantined for about eight months. A call to a phone listing for Bisson rang unanswered. The jury also found that an Iowa trucking company committed civil conspiracy in the case. Kids Day Radio Event Set For Saturday The Prairie Dog Amateur Radio Club will operate an ARRL Kids Day station this Saturday, June 15, from 1-6 p.m. at the Walmart Super- center parking lot. Kids Day is an event where amateur radio operators assist young- sters to contact other kids via ham radio. There is no charge so come on out and make a contact. The Center To Present Ladies Night Out June 18 The Center, 900 Whiting Drive in Yankton, will hold a Ladies Night Out on Tuesday, June 18, running from 5-8 p.m. This event is for ladies only, the limo is picking people up at 5 p.m. Participants will eat at Dave”s Grille at the Valley View Golf Course. For more information, contact Christy Hauer at (605) 665-4685 or di- [email protected]/. Outlaw Trail Scenic Byway Meeting Is June 18 BUTTE, Neb. — The Outlaw Trail Scenic Byway meets at the Butte Community Hall in Butte at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 18. Items on the agenda include Outlaw Trail Ride at Butte, “See the Byway the Quiltway” and a booth at the Nebraska State Fair. BOARD OF TRADE ON THIS DATE LOTTERIES 75 YEARS AGO Monday, June 13, 1938 • The lure of the midnight sun, totem poles and ice blue glaciers combined with mystery and grandeur of the north, have proved most inviting to a number of Yank- ton people who are planning a vacation trip this summer to the Pacific northwest and Alaska. • Four farmers living in Goose Lake township about six miles north of Lake Andes reported that while they were in town attending the Fish Day celebration someone had broken into their houses and stole food, clothing and nearly every- thing else movable. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 13, 1963 • Initiation petitions, signed by 65.6 per cent of the landowners representing 68.3 per cent of the acreage, calling for the creation, establishment and organiza- tion of the Lower Vermillion River water- shed district, with headquarters in Centerville, were filed Monday. • The Beresford police department re- ported today that two funnels were sighted this morning northwest of the town but no damage was reported. The weather bureau also reported a few se- vere thunderstorms in the southeastern part of the state this morning. 25 YEARS AGO Monday, June 13, 1988 • Operating without a full-time police chief for the past month hasnʼt been a major problem so far in Irene. But is has been inconvenient. • The first state court jury trial on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation since 1968 was canceled after the defendant, Randy OʼBan, pleaded guilty to third-degree burglary. CHICAGO (AP) — Grains futures were mixed Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for July delivery fell 13.75 cents to $6.83 a bushel; July corn fell 8.75 cents to $6.5075 a bushel; July oats were flat at $4.0325 a bushel; while July soybeans added 0.25 cent to $15.4075 a bushel. Beef and pork prices were also mixed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. August live cattle fell 0.18 cent to $1.1952 a pound; August feeder cattle rose 1.25 cent to $1.4592 a pound; July lean hogs added 0.02 cent to 99.17 cents a pound. YOUR NEWS! THE PRESS & DAKOTAN BY NATHAN JOHNSON [email protected] The apparent low bidder for a Yankton water plant improvement project came in well below the engineer’s estimate Wednesday afternoon. During the bid opening at City Hall, Welfl Construction of Yankton submitted a bid of $661,800. The engineer’s estimate was $960,000. “It came out good,” said Kyle Goodmanson, the Yankton environmental services director. He added that Welfl is a good contractor that the city has worked with in the past. Four other companies submitted bids Wednesday. Industrial Process Technology of Mitchell bid $690,420; Gridor Construction of Buffalo, Minn., bid $768,500; Eriksen Construc- tion of Blair, Neb., bid $797,450; and Gil Haugan Construction of Sioux Falls bid $844,700. The Yankton City Commission will consider awarding the bid at its June 24 meeting. Water Plant No. 2 will have to be shut down for several weeks during the project. Most of the equipment being replaced dates back to 1972 when the facility was built. Work will get under way when water usage is low, since the city will be depending entirely upon Water Plant No. 1, which was built in 1929 and has the capacity to produce 3 million gal- lons per day. The improvement project is part of the esti- mated $29 million in improvements the city is proposing to its water system in the next sev- eral years. It will be paid for out of the approxi- mately $3 million set aside so far for those upgrades. You can follow Nathan Johnson on Twitter at Twitter.com/AnInlandVoyage Water Plant Bid Below Estimate “Starting on the back of a garbage truck, I didn’t think I was going to stick around here,” Hacecky said. “Back then, there was no two-can limit or anything like that. If it was sitting at the curb, you took it. The one benefit of being on the garbage truck back then was that you could put in a four-hour day and, if everything was done, you could go.” That was usually balanced out with days in which they had to haul garbage until 10 p.m., he added. Hacecky, Roth and Simonsen joked that, with almost a quarter of the depart- ment’s veterans leaving, snow removal in the city will be interesting to watch this winter. “There is going to be a lot of curb- banging going on,” Simonsen joked. Hacecky added that plowing snow is not as easy as it looks. “That’s going to be the worst part for these young guys,” he stated. “It’s the part of the job I hated most.” The men said one of the biggest chal- lenges in snow plowing was dealing with motorists with no patience. “They’re in a hurry, and we’re in their way,” Hacecky said. “They don’t under- stand what’s going on, and they don’t care to learn.” Plowing typically begins at 2 a.m. and usually takes 10-11 hours. “I’m not going to miss getting called up at one in the morning,” Simonsen said. They all recalled missing holiday events in order to remove snow from city streets. “It will be the first time in 38 years that I’ll be able to sit and watch it snow,” Hacecky said of his retirement. “I used to like snow until I had to go out and push it all the time.” Haberman acknowledged that there will be inexperienced workers manning the plows this winter. “We’ll take some steps to prepare them,” he said. “We’ve got some veterans here yet who can give a lot of good direction.” The three men aren’t worried about getting bored in retirement. Hacecky has plans to travel to Yellowstone National Park, Roth has an old car he is renovating and Simonsen has some fishing trips scheduled. As they leave the department, the men offered their respects to their co-workers and said they hope the public does the same. “The street department puts up signs, fixes catch basins, fixes curb lines, fixes streets, hauls garbage — we do all of that,” Hacecky said. “Sometimes people seem to forget all the things we do.” You can follow Nathan Johnson on Twit- ter at Twitter.com/AnInlandVoyage Leaving From Page 1

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POUND COUNTSeveral animals are available at the

Yankton Animal Shelter. For more infor-mation call the Yankton Police Depart-mentʼs Animal Control Officer, from 8a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday at 661-9494, or 668-5210.

Animals available for adoption in-clude:

• a spayed 2-year-old female BlueHeeler mix;

• a mostly black pitbull mix puppy;• a dapple-colored male Doxie; and• a yellow and white kitten.

DAILY RECORD POLICYThe Press & Dakotan publishes

police and sheriff reports as a publicservice to its readers. It is important toremember that an arrest should notimply guilt and that every person is pre-sumed innocent until proven otherwise.When juveniles are released from jail,it is into the care of a parent orguardian.

It is the policy of the Press &Dakotan to publish all names madeavailable in the police and court re-ports. There are no exceptions.

ARRESTS• Michael Woodraska, 47, Sioux

Falls, was arrested Tuesday on threewarrants.

• Marlene Woodraska, 41, Yankton,was arrested Tuesday on two warrants.

• Robert Reid Jr., 22, Yankton, wasarrested Tuesday on a parole hold.

• Nelson Reeves, 21, Sioux Falls,was arrested Tuesday for possessionwith intent to distribute marijuana, pos-session of marijuana and a warrant.

• Luke Lloyd, 34, Yankton, was ar-rested Tuesday for simple assault(domestic).

• Tylor Sealey, 22, Yankton, was ar-rested Tuesday on two warrants.

ACCIDENTS• A report was received at 3:41 p.m.

Tuesday of a parking lot accident in the3000 block of Broadway.

• A report was received at 9:08 p.m.Tuesday that a 2003 GMC Envoy wasstruck by an unknown vehicle in theYankton High School parking lot.

• A report was received at 11:25p.m. Tuesday that a man hole coverhad been removed at the intersectionof Francis St. and Donohoe Boulevard.A Honda CRV struck the hole, and itdamaged the vehicleʼs gas tank. A largeamount of gasoline was spilled on the

roadway. Approximately $1,000 dam-age was done to the vehicle.

• A report was received at 5:52 a.m.Wednesday that a car struck a garagedoor in the 300 block of Northern St.The individual had exited the vehiclebefore putting it in park, and it rolled for-ward into the door.

• A sheriffʼs office report was re-ceived at 8:44 a.m. Tuesday that atrailer pulled by a vehicle driven by aVermillion man was struck from behindby a 2006 Chevy Silverado driven by aBeresford man along Highway 50. Bothvehicles belonged to the same con-struction company. Estimated value ofthe damage to the trailer was $500 and$3,200 to the Silverado.

• A sheriffʼs office report was re-ceived at 5:43 p.m. Tuesday that the16-year-old female driver of a 1997Chrysler Town and Country swerved onDeer Boulevard just south of Highway314. The vehicle rolled three to fourtimes. The driver and an 18-year-oldpassenger were taken to the hospitalwith injuries.

INCIDENTS• A report was received at 5:48 p.m.

Tuesday of a domestic assault in the800 block of Burleigh St. A male wasarrested.

• A report was received at 10:46p.m. Tuesday that three vehicles werevandalized in the 2800 block of FrancisSt. Racist comments and other graffitiwere written on them. Juvenile maleswere suspected as the culprits.

• A report was received at 7:48 a.m.Wednesday of the theft of two pairs ofsunglasses and $100 from a vehicleparked in a garage in the 2200 block ofValley Road.

• A report was received at 11:12a.m. Wednesday that an animal wouldnot let a mail carrier by in the 200 blockof Murphy Lane.

• A report was received at 11:54a.m. Wednesday of a forgery.

• A sheriffʼs office report was re-ceived at 6:27 p.m. Tuesday of vandal-ism near 446th Ave. and 298th St.,Irene.

CRIME STOPPERSAnyone wishing to report anony-

mous information on unlawful activity inthe City of Yankton or in YanktonCounty is encouraged to contact theCrime Stoppers tip line at 665-4440.

T H E P R E S S & D A K O T A N W E A T H E R C E N T E R

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PRESS&DAKOTANYA N K T O N D A I LY

Yankton Mall

Clarence Vogt 80th Birthday Celebration

OPEN HOUSE Saturday June 15

St. John’s Lutheran Church • 1-4pm Fellowship Hall

1009 Jackson St. Yankton, SD

We are so grateful for all the kindness

shown to us in many ways during our 50th wedding anniversary.

We appreciated it very much.

God’s Blessings to each of you. With Love, With Love,

Don and Carole Don and Carole

Hurley Hurley

WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS2 BY 2: Red Balls: 1-26, White

Balls: 4-6MY DAY: Month: 5, Day: 15, Year:

50PICK 3: 9-6-7PICK 5: 01-02-15-29-35

POWERBALL: 16-22-23-42-55,Power Ball: 32

HOT LOTTO: 18-22-28-30-39, HotBall: 18

WILD CARD: 11-15-17-23-29, WildCard: JC

DAKOTA CASH: 02-04-07-21-35

Parkston Farmer Awarded $1M In Fraud CaseOLIVET (AP) — A Parkston farmer has been awarded more than $1

million against a former Watertown cattle seller for misrepresentingthe origin of a shipment of cattle to his farm.

A Hutchinson County jury awarded farmer Curtis Huether $100,000in damages and $1 million in punitive damages against David Bisson.

Huether accused Bisson of misrepresenting the origin of a ship-ment of cattle to his farm in 2008, which resulted in Huether’s cattlebeing quarantined for about eight months.

A call to a phone listing for Bisson rang unanswered. The jury also found that an Iowa trucking company committed civil

conspiracy in the case.

Kids Day Radio Event Set For SaturdayThe Prairie Dog Amateur Radio Club will operate an ARRL Kids Day

station this Saturday, June 15, from 1-6 p.m. at the Walmart Super-center parking lot.

Kids Day is an event where amateur radio operators assist young-sters to contact other kids via ham radio.

There is no charge so come on out and make a contact.

The Center To Present Ladies Night Out June 18The Center, 900 Whiting Drive in Yankton, will hold a Ladies Night

Out on Tuesday, June 18, running from 5-8 p.m.This event is for ladies only, the limo is picking people up at 5 p.m.

Participants will eat at Dave”s Grille at the Valley View Golf Course.For more information, contact Christy Hauer at (605) 665-4685 or di-

[email protected]/.

Outlaw Trail Scenic Byway Meeting Is June 18BUTTE, Neb. — The Outlaw Trail Scenic Byway meets at the Butte

Community Hall in Butte at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 18.Items on the agenda include Outlaw Trail Ride at Butte, “See the

Byway the Quiltway” and a booth at the Nebraska State Fair.

B OA R D O F T R A D E

O N T H I S DAT E

L OT T E R I E S

75 YEARS AGO Monday, June 13, 1938

• The lure of the midnight sun, totempoles and ice blue glaciers combined withmystery and grandeur of the north, haveproved most inviting to a number of Yank-ton people who are planning a vacationtrip this summer to the Pacific northwestand Alaska.

• Four farmers living in Goose Laketownship about six miles north of LakeAndes reported that while they were intown attending the Fish Day celebrationsomeone had broken into their housesand stole food, clothing and nearly every-thing else movable.

50 YEARS AGOThursday, June 13, 1963

• Initiation petitions, signed by 65.6per cent of the landowners representing68.3 per cent of the acreage, calling for

the creation, establishment and organiza-tion of the Lower Vermillion River water-shed district, with headquarters inCenterville, were filed Monday.

• The Beresford police department re-ported today that two funnels weresighted this morning northwest of thetown but no damage was reported. Theweather bureau also reported a few se-vere thunderstorms in the southeasternpart of the state this morning.

25 YEARS AGO Monday, June 13, 1988

• Operating without a full-time policechief for the past month hasnʼt been amajor problem so far in Irene. But is hasbeen inconvenient.

• The first state court jury trial on thePine Ridge Indian Reservation since 1968was canceled after the defendant, RandyOʼBan, pleaded guilty to third-degreeburglary.

CHICAGO (AP) — Grains futureswere mixed Wednesday on the ChicagoBoard of Trade.

Wheat for July delivery fell 13.75 centsto $6.83 a bushel; July corn fell 8.75 centsto $6.5075 a bushel; July oats were flat at$4.0325 a bushel; while July soybeansadded 0.25 cent to $15.4075 a bushel.

Beef and pork prices were also mixedon the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

August live cattle fell 0.18 cent to$1.1952 a pound; August feeder cattlerose 1.25 cent to $1.4592 a pound; Julylean hogs added 0.02 cent to 99.17 centsa pound.

Y O U R N E W S ! T H E P R E S S & D A K O T A N

BY NATHAN [email protected]

The apparent low bidder for a Yanktonwater plant improvement project came in wellbelow the engineer’s estimate Wednesdayafternoon.

During the bid opening at City Hall, WelflConstruction of Yankton submitted a bid of$661,800. The engineer’s estimate was $960,000.

“It came out good,” said Kyle Goodmanson,the Yankton environmental services director.

He added that Welfl is a good contractorthat the city has worked with in the past.

Four other companies submitted bidsWednesday. Industrial Process Technology ofMitchell bid $690,420; Gridor Construction ofBuffalo, Minn., bid $768,500; Eriksen Construc-tion of Blair, Neb., bid $797,450; and Gil HauganConstruction of Sioux Falls bid $844,700.

The Yankton City Commission will considerawarding the bid at its June 24 meeting.

Water Plant No. 2 will have to be shut downfor several weeks during the project. Most ofthe equipment being replaced dates back to1972 when the facility was built.

Work will get under way when water usageis low, since the city will be depending entirelyupon Water Plant No. 1, which was built in 1929and has the capacity to produce 3 million gal-lons per day.

The improvement project is part of the esti-mated $29 million in improvements the city isproposing to its water system in the next sev-eral years. It will be paid for out of the approxi-mately $3 million set aside so far for thoseupgrades.

You can follow Nathan Johnson on Twitter atTwitter.com/AnInlandVoyage

Water Plant Bid Below Estimate

“Starting on the back of a garbagetruck, I didn’t think I was going to stickaround here,” Hacecky said. “Back then,there was no two-can limit or anything likethat. If it was sitting at the curb, you tookit. The one benefit of being on the garbagetruck back then was that you could put ina four-hour day and, if everything wasdone, you could go.”

That was usually balanced out withdays in which they had to haul garbageuntil 10 p.m., he added.

Hacecky, Roth and Simonsen jokedthat, with almost a quarter of the depart-ment’s veterans leaving, snow removal inthe city will be interesting to watch thiswinter.

“There is going to be a lot of curb-

banging going on,” Simonsen joked.Hacecky added that plowing snow is

not as easy as it looks.“That’s going to be the worst part for

these young guys,” he stated. “It’s the partof the job I hated most.”

The men said one of the biggest chal-lenges in snow plowing was dealing withmotorists with no patience.

“They’re in a hurry, and we’re in theirway,” Hacecky said. “They don’t under-stand what’s going on, and they don’t careto learn.”

Plowing typically begins at 2 a.m. andusually takes 10-11 hours.

“I’m not going to miss getting called upat one in the morning,” Simonsen said.

They all recalled missing holidayevents in order to remove snow from citystreets.

“It will be the first time in 38 years thatI’ll be able to sit and watch it snow,”Hacecky said of his retirement. “I used tolike snow until I had to go out and push itall the time.”

Haberman acknowledged that therewill be inexperienced workers manningthe plows this winter.

“We’ll take some steps to preparethem,” he said. “We’ve got some veteranshere yet who can give a lot of gooddirection.”

The three men aren’t worried aboutgetting bored in retirement. Hacecky hasplans to travel to Yellowstone NationalPark, Roth has an old car he is renovatingand Simonsen has some fishing tripsscheduled.

As they leave the department, the menoffered their respects to their co-workersand said they hope the public does thesame.

“The street department puts up signs,fixes catch basins, fixes curb lines, fixesstreets, hauls garbage — we do all of that,”Hacecky said. “Sometimes people seem toforget all the things we do.”

You can follow Nathan Johnson on Twit-ter at Twitter.com/AnInlandVoyage

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