Smoothing the way

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Blistering heat or blowing blizzards, the roads have to be tended. Some of our public servants that do not receive a lot of recognition are the ones who care for our roads. Bob Clinton, the road grader operator for Walker Township, spent some long hours in the recent storm trying to get the grader going in the brutal cold, and getting the roads passable. This wasn't the first storm in which Clinton has dug the roadways out from under snow drifts -- he has been grading the roads since 1957. Slim Centers was running the road grader and had a heart attack; so Wilbur Pray walked across the road from his house to Clinton's house and asked him if he would run the grader for Walker Township. He's been doing it ever since.

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