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From left, Luke West, Wheatland water treatment manager, Perry Smith, and Francis Lobmeyer, master electrician, examine the operations schematic on the Allen-Bradley VersaView 5200 display (Rockwell Automation).
Perry Smith still doesn’t know who nominated him for his awards. He certainly wasn’t pleased about standing up in front of a crowd of people.
“I’m kind of a private person,” he says. In 2019 he received the Water Plant Operator of the Year award from the Kansas Rural...