For Kelly Kimes, a service technician at Cal-State Site Services in Simi Valley, California, 2018 started off pretty well. He recently married the mother of his three children. Then he heard that his supervisors had nominated him for the Portable Sanitation Association International Service Technician of the Year award.
But then, the bad news struck. Kimes, 56, was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and has since begun chemotherapy treatment.
And while that journey has been a struggle, Kimes says he felt joy and pride when he learned he had actually won the award. “It couldn’t have been timed any better,” he says.
