“I always wanted to own my own business, even as a kid. I had no idea how. There was no master plan, but I always had that bug that I wanted to work for myself,” Manuel “Manny” Diaz says.
It took a few years, but now he does own one — Jack’s Septic of Newark, Ohio. Diaz was born in Cuba and came to freedom in the United States as a child in a large emigration of people disenchanted with the regime of Fidel Castro.
In the spring of 1980, people who wanted to leave the island began flocking to the
