Ecoquest

EcoQuest International agreed this week to sponsor “Education Friday” at the Battle of Blue Springs reenactment in October. EcoQuest Building Operations Director Duane Haatvedt, center, is shown Friday presenting an $8,000 check to the battle reenactment’s director, Jim “Pudden” Allen, wearing a Confederate uniform. From left to right are: Mary Gavlik, a member of the reenactment’s planning committee; Jim Richard, manager of EcoQuest’s technology program office, and a reenactor himself; Haatvedt; Allen; Bill Ring, a reenactor with the 8th Tennessee Infantry (U.S.); and Mosheim Alderman Tommy Gregg.