Scott Swanson
Garrison Whitfield says he’s wanted to be a diesel mechanic since, well, at least as far back as elementary school.
After he graduated from Sweet Home High School last June he received a letter he’d written to himself as a sixth-grader at Hawthorne Elementary.
“I opened it right after graduation. I said I wanted to be a diesel mechanic.”
Whitfield is now one of 50 students in the Linn-Benton Community College diesel technology…