Norbert Svoboda stands outside upon a hot July morning patching his driveway in a neighborhood where he has lived for almost 40 years.

Norbert Svoboda stands outside upon a hot July morning patching his driveway in a neighborhood where he has lived for almost 40 years.

His fireside is part of an appealing collection of middle- to upper-middle-class domiciles that as a whole liken the Eisenhower Circle residential area in succession Aberdeen's south side.

Svoboda, who is retired, takes a break from his chore and considers to the north toward the Swift and Co beef processing plant les than a mile from his abode The slaughterhouse has been there since 1964

"You know, it ain't too bad at all," Svoboda says of the sprawling Swift network with about 2,800 workers - Grand Island's biggest employer He's referring specifically to the decades-old, intimate relationship between the plant and his nose very strange There's practically no odor these days, and when he does catch an occasional whiff it doesn't bother him, he says.