When Kevin Horgan's career took a sudden detour, he wasted little time getting back on track. A little over six years ago, a strike cost him his job as an avionics mechanic with a Minneapolis-based airline.
Today, he leads the maintenance team at the water treatment plant in Eden Prairie, Minn., a Minneapolis suburb. He and three colleagues — two of them also former airline mechanics — take care of the city's 28 mgd (design) lime softening/filtration plant.
Horgan leads the team with a strong sense of pride and with gratitude for a city that
