
The Salina Septic Service crew includes, from left, Jackson Leister, Calle Leister, Cole Leister, Sheldon Crook and Scott Donaldson. They are shown with PolyJohn restrooms on a trailer from F.M. Manufacturing.
In 2016, when Cole Leister’s father and grandmother bought a 65-year-old septic/portable restroom company from the retiring owner in Salina, Kansas, something about it just clicked with him and the high school graduate’s college plans went out the window. He learned everything...