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Russ Sifers doesn’t come into work much anymore. At 77, and supposedly retired, he mostly stays home, watches the numbers from a distance and wonders if the company his great-grandfather started in 1903 has finally run out of road.
“Valomilk is Kansas City’s candy bar,” Sifers said this week from behind a mahogany desk in his time capsule of an office in Merriam. “But there’s been a changing of the guard in the candy business. And we don’t have a guard.”…