Guess I’m still on my two weeks.
That’s the joke Brian Russell continues to make occasionally, more than two decades after taking over the fieldwork for A-1 Septic Tank Cleaning from his father-in-law, Henry Howland Jr. What was initially proposed as a two-week gig while Howland recovered from a back injury has morphed into Brian and wife Tamara running the longtime Topeka, Kansas, septic company, now in its 76th year.“I just wanted to see it go on more than anything,” Tamara says of her journey into the septic trade.With two older siblings uninterested in getting into the family business, Tamara decided
