Giving Thanks: City Services

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'm all too well aware that our property taxes help pay for police and fire protection, safe roads and well-stocked libraries (just to name a few), but I'm very thankful for the public works department in particular and the joy they bring to the younger members of our family on a weekly basis.