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David Evan
Heavy Equipment Operator

David Evan was born on the third of August, 1948, at Ingrak (Little Mountain). David, his mother Kathy, and father Alex, came to live in Marshall until David was seven years old. After that he went to school in Russian Mission. He attended Chiloco High School in Oklahoma and graduated from there in 1964.

David has been working with water and sewer projects since he was sixteen, and he plans to work as long as he is healthy or until he retires. At first he says he wasn't very interested in his job, but as he worked at it more, he started to like it more. Now he likes his job very much. He says he likes it because he works outdoors with heavy equipment.

The training he received was pretty straight forward. He had six months of heavy equipment training and another six months of welding. Then when he worked with the TAPS pipeline he had more training. There he learned more about heavy equipment and construction.

David says that his job keeps him healthy. He also says working hard takes his arthritis pains away. The best thing he likes about his job is his boss and the people he works with. What he doesn't like is redoing the mistakes that they make because they have to take apart everything and put it all back together again. He also doesn't like to build experimental structures because they sometimes don't work!

Cheryl Hunter

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