He was an impulsive kid, according to his dad.

Leaping off the rocks into the water in his floatie at Palisades State Park near Garretson at age 2.

Trying to ride his bicycle down the slide.

Teaching himself piano and spending hours trying to master a melody.

Maybe it was a darker impulse that led Manny Vargas — Porkchop to his friends — to hang himself in his Sioux Falls bedroom at age 15 in October 2024.

Snubbed Custer State Park manager has history with South Dakota's new out-of-state pick

U.S. Hotel & Resort Management ran Black Hills lodges for two decades before losIng contract to Colorado-based Xanterra; Sioux Falls company previously stepped in for industry giant in Ohio

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