IFG's Laclede mill marks 50 years of growth, grit and innovation
Idaho Forest Group founder Mark Brinkmeyer talks to a few of the employees at the company Laclede mill as they celebrate the mill's 50th anniversary.
Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER
LACLEDE — Walking up to the podium, Idaho Forest Group founder Mark Brinkmeyer picked up a plaque shaped like the state of Idaho.
Created from the first 2x12 milled at the Laclede mill Sept. 30, 1976, Brinkmeyer said it represents all that the mill and Idaho Forest Group have accomplished in the 50 years since that first plank made its way through the mill.