In August Jose Hernandez went out to Colorado for his 10 year trip! Pictured is Jose (far right) along with his son (in green) and his brothers and nephews at Red Rock. They had a great trip and thank Crest Foods for the opportunity! My Ten Year Trip by Tyler Ewens, Sanitation C For my 10 Year Trip, my wife and I took a road trip through Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula. We started off by spending a weekend in the Wisconsin Dells, where we played mini golf at Pirate's Cove, rode the Ducks, and went to the zoo. From the Dells we drove all the way up to Marquette, Michigan, where we stayed for four day. While in Marquette we toured many of their small shops and local parks, like Presque Isle where there is still a working iron ore dock. While up there we also visited Big Bay a couple of the days. Big Bay is a town the size of Leaf River. It has a campground and is on it's own lake as well as being right off of Lake Superior. The Big Bay Lighthouse is just outside of town as is Squaw Beach, which is where we spent most of our time there. On the way home from Marquette we stopped over in Madison and spent our second week- end going to their farmers market on the square and the Olbrich Botanical Gardens before finally making our way home. My Ten Year Trip by Jose Hernandez, Production B
Happy Birthday Crest Foods by Jeff Meiners Late in the summer of the year 1946, entrepreneurs George McDonald and E. C. Scott decided to try their hands at opening their own business in downtown Ashton. They specialized in extracting and drying the dairy proteins that were available from a local milk source and selling them to those in the food industry seeking such a product. In fact, the first product they ever sold was a high protein dry shake product that was to be used by the government for helping nourish returning soldiers from World War 2 that had been mal-nourished in POW camps. After several years of meager existence, the business slowly began to grow and through a change in ownership was renamed Crest Foods…that’s right, the very same Crest Foods that we all work at some 75 years later. Through perseverance, some good luck and the hard work and dedication of many…Crest is a company today that neither of its founders could have even hoped to imagine so many years ago. Crazy how things like that work! Imagine how generations not even born yet might look back at Crest in another seventy-five years and wonder how we ever managed to get by in the 2020’s. We’ll always be grateful that fate brought Mr. Scott and McDonald to Ash- ton to open their business and for the circumstances that unfolded to make a place of employment for so many out in the middle of the cornfields of rural Illinois.
6 Crest Ink July, August & September 2021
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