Geraldo Maldonado, center, chats Tuesday with friend and former co-worker Billy Cain, left, while taking his 4-month-old German Shepherd, Reina, out for some exercise along Becker Avenue Southwest in Willmar. Cain recently retired after spending 45 years at Jennie-O Turkey Store Plant 1 in Willmar. Maldonado has been employed at the plant for about 15 years. Tribune photo by Gary Miller