When Ryan Sorensen and his family moved to Freeman in 2014, the plan was for him to eventually buy Ted Pidde Jr.’s business. That day has arrived.
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Ryan Sorensen and Ted Pidde Jr. are pictured outside the familiar Valley Electric van last week. Sorensen, a 1998 graduate of Freeman High School who returned with his family to his home community in 2014, took over the business on Dec. 29. PHOTO BY JEREMY WALTNER
JEREMY WALTNER - PUBLISHER
Fifty-five years after Orville A. Waltner established Valley Electric Service as his own business — named for Valley Township south of town, where Waltner lived — the Freeman-based business is under new ownership.
Ryan Sorensen has purchased it from Ted Pidde Jr., in a sale that was finalized Tuesday, Dec. 29.
Pidde will continue to work for Valley Electric “as much as he wants,” said Sorensen, as will current full-time employee Micah Graber. But it will be…
