Preister Excavating, Inc.

About Preister Excavating, Inc.

The spire of St. Francis Church rises over Humphrey and can be picked out from far across the farm country of Platte County, a fixed point on a winter horizon that otherwise goes white in every direction. Preister Excavating, an excavation company by trade, turns to snow removal when the season changes, pushing snow back from driveways and walkways after a storm. There is something fitting in that: a business that shapes the ground the rest of the year, reshaping winter's drifts into tidy banks along the edge of the drive. On a bright morning after the snow quits, with the steeple catching the sun, the streets of this town feel wide open again.