January 2022

Allen Jacobson has been interested in the construction trade from a very early age, having watched his grandfather do woodworking while growing up playing with tools and saws rather than toys. His first job was picking up shingles for a construction company, and he continued to work in the trade throughout high school. "I went to college for two weeks and I knew that it wasn't my route. I called home and told mom and dad, and mom said the only thing she had to say was that I wasn't going to lay on her couch all day, I was going to find a job," says Jacobson. "Before she came home from work that day, I had a job working at Sears." From there, Jacobson would go on to work for Paul Rongstad's construction business, learning more about the trade until he would eventually become a partner in Prairieland Builders in 2006.

a facility, but to the Montevideo baseball coaches, a different approach made more financial sense. The two set to work talking to other stakeholders, and found partners in the project in the Watson Honkers Baseball Association, as well as Todd Ricke, Vice President at J&D Construction. “It’s been a really good relationship to bring the two organizations together to do something really positive for both of our programs,” says Coach Brandon Raymo.