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A SUCCESSFUL LIFE
I think everyone has a different idea of what success is. If you can set and meet your goals, have a lot of determination while also enjoying what you do on a daily basis, I believe those are some pretty good indicators of a good life. You are the only person that can make your life successful, with some help along the way.
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FAMILY FUN
Our family enjoys being outside, camping in our State Parks, going to the beach at Lake Vermillion, golfing at ParMar and other local courses, swimming at the Marion Pool and having snowball fights in the winter.
FAMILY FARMERS
My wife and I both grew up in farming families. We have a Red Angus cow-calf herd and a row crop operation of corn and soybeans on my grandparents’ old farm northeast of Marion. My wife opened a boutique in town two years ago.
Justin Beckstrand is vice president of Lending at Rivers Edge Bank in Marion.
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By Bob Fitch
The toy models got this writer in the door. But there is a much more important story to tell than just the cool, miniature models of everything from horses and chickens to mailboxes and parking meters.
All Scale Miniatures produces scale models for time-honored American hobbies such as model railroading and model farms. Utilizing advanced technology and some of the best brains from rural South Dakota, All Scale is part of Primary Manufacturing, a powerhouse of innovation hidden in plain sight in downtown Humboldt. Primary Manufacturing specializes in additive manufacturing using 3D printing technology. The company makes specialty parts from materials such as steel, stainless steel, rigid polyurethane and rigid plastic – all on the world’s most advanced 3D printers. Additive manufacturing builds parts or objects from materials deposited, joined or solidified layer-by-layer under computer control. “Our clientele is somebody who doesn't want to spend $60,000 on an injection mold, mostly because they don't want to produce a million of something. What we do is called bridge manufacturing, which comes into play when it's more cost effective to make 1 to 1,000 items rather than manufacture 10,000 items,” said Ladd McCluskey, founder and president of Primary Manufacturing. Complex shapes that might be impossible to construct by hand can be created via 3D printing. For residents of rural communities, the most important part of this story is that extremely high-technology businesses can thrive in a small town. Instead of exporting some of South Dakota’s brightest minds out of state or sending technically-skilled people down the road to Sioux Falls, companies such as Primary Manufacturing provide options for the growing number of people who want the benefits of small-town living. “People underestimate the number of really bright, intelligent people who live here. And, for everything said about our school systems, our schools in this part of the country are still really amazing and producing some really, really good talent,” he said. When Ladd was writing the business plan for what would become Primary Manufacturing, he thought about his own experience of leaving South Dakota for larger communities which had better career prospects. “But we came back when our kids were 3 and 6 because we wanted to raise them here.”
By starting and successfully operating Primary Manufacturing in Humboldt,
Primary Manufacturing’s Ladd McCluskey and his brother-in-law, Steve.
