For months, the Dufferin Construction crew has been hard at work making improvements to Main Street while replacing aging infrastructure below ground.
This week a team of women from Trinity United Church wanted to say thanks by making them a hot meal during their lunch break.
Four women — Zelda Dwyer, Karen Parr, Nancy Waxl, Shirley Woodard — recently formed ‘The Hospitality Team’ at the church and wanted to make this their first initiative to give back.
“My gosh, they have been out there working so hard no matter rain or shine,” said Nancy Waxl. “We really just wanted to help them out and make sure they know we appreciate them.”
They were put in contact with Dufferin supervisor, John Miller, to make the arrangements.
The ladies then planned a homemade menu perfect for a cool October day: chili con carne, tea biscuits, coleslaw, and apple or cherry pie.
As soon as they put out a call to the church community for help, they had a flood of people offering to make pies and biscuits. The ladies made the chili and coleslaw at the church the morning of the lunch using Waxl’s go-to chili recipe.
On Wednesday, October 20, more than 25 crew members gathered outside Trinity during their noon break and were handed a brown bag filled with goodies.
“I can’t even put into words how kind it was for them to do this for us,” said Dufferin supervisor John Miller. “The crew was very excited and we want them to know how much we appreciate it.”
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Well, this is a really good event. The few times I have been in town during construction I’ve taken time to look into the digging and see some of the ancient stuff that the workers have pulled up. Somebody should compile a bunch of the pictures into a small history book, the big dig in Huntsville as I’m sure someday people will find it interesting. It is actually interesting that the work has not caused as much disruption of business as I first thought it would. Some inconvenience for sure but if you really wanted to get to any store it was not that hard to do so.
I remember the first stop light in Huntsville was at Main and Centre street. I can’t remember the exact date of installation but I do remember my Dad, taking all us kids for a drive in the evening to go and “look at the stop light”. Sure enough it changed from green to orange to red and back again… I guess it did not take too much to amuse us back then. It was the only one and we did not tend to curse the delays and traffic back then. At that time, it took about an hour to drive from Dwight to Huntsville, hard to believe but the road sure was more twisty then.
About 1969 they rebuilt it more or less like it is today. Segmiller did this job and not a single silt filter or “danger due to….” sign was ever seen, but we all survived.
For a while in the 70’s you could be pretty sure of making it from home to the movie theater in about 15 minutes as most traffic traveled at 60 to 70 mph in those days.
Progress is such that with much better cars today, it now takes about 40 minutes for the trip today, but we have to negotiate at least 10 stoplights along the way today. Progress? Depends I suppose on how you define it. One thing for sure, you don’t need to worry about going to the Movies any more. I suppose you can watch on narrow screen tunnel vision on your phone these days if the battery lasts for the length of the movie. Does anybody actually do this??
Thank-you for reporting on such a good news story.
To the hospitality team of the United Church. How thoughtful and wonderful you all are for the Diggers Lunch you provided to these hard working men and women! What a feel good story….you guys nailed it!…betcha it was delicious!!
What a lovely thing for the ladies and Church to do.
Thanks you from the town