The late Leo Heikkinen was honored by the Price County Economic Development Association on May 20 with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his distinguished service to Price County.
In attendance were many members of the Heikkinen family, former employees, PCEDA President Dennis Rodewald, Greg Krause, and delegates from state and local offices.
After Rodewald’s introduction to the evening, Krause gave a recap of the life and times of Heikkinen, starting from the bust of the pine logging industry in the 1920’s, to Heikkinen’s development of a cable jammer, to the expansion of his original logging equipment repair shop into an incorporated business in the 1960’s, which lead to over 300 local jobs, to the far-reaching use of Prentice Loaders, including by NASA, and eventually to the civic leadership that has become part of his lasting legacy.
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