Snow... with a side of Timmies

We are involved with the Adopt a Driveway program here in Stony Plain. In a nut shell, we clean driveways for our community seniors who are unable to do so themselves. Tuesday heralded the first snow of the season, and Team Crane swooped into action. There were four of us from Team Crane, and (special thanks again for being a part time crane) Ms Petrie from Team Dragon. We, and our Sky Capable cousin, made short work of the snow on our assigned driveway/walkway. It took longer to drive back over to Tim Hortons for hot chocolate and donuts than it did to help our senior out. Bottom line, it felt really good.

Our senior, if left with out help, could have fallen and hurt themselves while trying to clean their own place, or just trying to go to the store. Town bylaws force all residence to clean their walk/driveways with in a specific time period or be fined. How helpless must it feel to be stuck, unable to do something for yourself, to not be able to rely on family for what ever reason? Living on a fixed income is hard enough, but to have the added danger of slipping, the threat of being fined, and no one to turn to. It seems to be a very stressful, lonely situation.

But our town has this program, Adopt A Driveway. People volunteer to take on these homes and make a difference in our seniors life. I know I have tried to fuel a friendly competition (okay raging competition) between the teams to make it more fun (which has worked like magic) but now that we have our first snow under our feet, I have put a lot more thought into it. There are still driveways and their owners out there that need us.

As Mrs Halvorson (Crane Extraordinaire) pointed out, it took only a few minutes of our time, the walk way wasn't bad, and we won't let it get bad... so why don't we get more driveways assigned to us? Well, with a few more teams, we could get them for sure! We should all be talking amongst our teams (hint Queen Crane) to see if we want to take on a second location. At the very least, hassling our training mates to get on a team and do something great for our community, not to mention ourselves.

But that's just some random thoughts.... maybe worth thinking about?

PS
To the Tacky Tigers and Loud Leopards..... Our senior sent us a present! HAHA so there!