Willmar

Just awesome.

Lawson Inez from Willmar.

He's one of our top 25 guys.

I think around 18 or so tackles on the game there.

This facility is one of several that received funding in recent years to expand local meat processing training.

Others are in Purim and Willmar, Minnesota.

This summer marks the 100th anniversary of the first spring wheat variety bred and released by scientists at NDSU.

Ceres wheat was first released in 1926, and as Jenny Schleck reports in this week's Agwood Cover Story, it was grown at seven locations across North Dakota this summer to celebrate the wheat breeding program's storied history.

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Um, well yeah, I was in Willmar, Minnesota, for a majority of the summer-

Ooh

... working with the Willmar Stingers baseball team.

Oh, fun.

So that was a lot of fun.

Um, and I, I was always kind of working for that two to three years before I wanted to move back to Sauk Centre and, and start in business with my dad.

And there was a, there was a Saturday that Casey and I were back in Willmar, uh, for something that I remember exactly where I was sitting when Ross looked over at me and, and said, "Would you ever be interested in coming to Marcus Construction and, and working alongside Taylor and I?" And it really kind of set me back because I was 23 or 24, and for my entire life I had driven by Martin Farm.

I had dreamed of that.

I had talked to my parents about it, and that was really, that was my path.

Um, so there was churning in that as well-

Yeah

... and it even continued as we moved back to Willmar and got plugged into a church here of really solidifying some of those, those core foundations, and then ended up getting baptized, um, again.

I was baptized as an infant in, in the Lutheran denomination, and as I kinda continued to morph into, into where my faith journey was at, I, I felt really called to being baptized again as a, as a believer and being able to pronounce that.