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Meet Troy McMurtrey, Senior Superintendent
“If you look at your work and you say, ‘I wonder if that’s good enough,’ it’s not.” My first job was at Dick’s when I was still in high school. No kidding. Dick’s Hamburgers. I was a prep cook. Only worked there for about six months, but then I couldn’t get out of the restaurant field

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It began in Aberdeen, South Dakota: a modest home, built by a thirteen-year-old Belgian immigrant with the help of a carpenter and a laborer. Gus J. Bouten, son of a master craftsman, had made his mark on the world with little more than an eighth-grade education, a single-minded work ethic, and a knack for building