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The team at the Urbana and Champaign Sanitary District includes, from left, Layne DelValley, lead operator; Bruce Rabe, laboratory supervisor; Justin Profancik, operations supervisor; and Wade Lagle, director of operations.
Many high school students find their first jobs at McDonald’s or Burger King. Not Wade Lagle.
“I didn’t really want to work at a fast food restaurant, even though there’s not a lot of options for kids when they turn 16,” says Lagle. “So when my city had a summer job...