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Services taken for granted

To the editor:

To all the work crews of the Houghton Road Commission, thank you! I am grateful and even in awe of the amazingly fast and effective work you have done to get our local communities back to almost normal within just days. As someone who lives just off of Agate, I was shocked, like everyone else, at what I saw, grateful that my street was spared, and genuinely concerned for our neighbors on Agate (and elsewhere) who I (falsely) thought would be “stranded” for quite some time. I cannot imagine any group anywhere doing a better job than you have done. It is so easy to take these kinds of services for granted until we really need them, so again, thank you. But also, in light of this example, perhaps it is time Houghton set aside one of the Friday afternoon open-air concerts to formally thank Houghton’s road crews and consider a regular summer event to honor and thank our police, fire, EMS and all our other city service providers that we take for granted until we need them. 

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