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    Juan Gaytan, Electrical Engineer for the Walla Walla District, stands outside the Walla Walla District building in Walla Walla, Washington, on Oct. 15, 2024. Gaytan is actively engaged in seven civil work projects for the district, serving as the lead electrical designer for two of them.

    “I’ll keep trying;" A journey from Mexico to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

    It started in 1979 on the dirt streets of Zacatecas, Mexico, where a young boy named Juan Gaytan dreamed of a better life in the United States.
  • A man in a button-up shirt gives a speech to a small crowd from behind a podium at a local museum.

    McNary turns 70!

    As the population grew in the Pacific Northwest, communities formed around the Columbia and Snake rivers. Back then, the currents were temperamental and hard to navigate. However, there was a vision to create a highway, one that would allow barges to carry cargo from the Pacific Ocean to the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers, 465 miles inland.