GRAND RAPIDS, MI – When the lights went down, Rick Szczepaniuk’s work began.
Concert after concert and game after game, as thousands of attendees shuffled out of Van Andel Arena, the head custodian would hustle to get the arena looking brand new again.
Sweeping up hair after girl-dominated pop shows, mopping up spilled beer from the concourse and picking up trash from underneath thousands of seats were all in a night’s work for Szczepaniuk…