Sam Capello, Early Morning Snowman at the Big Boy on Euclid, wears New Year's party hat as he shovels but swears he does not know who the Charitable Snowman is. Mysterious Charitable Snowman
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Reports have reached my desk for several years now about a mysterious Charitable Snowman.
Last year I decided to try to find out more about this altruistic individual who not only plows out his neighbors' driveways but also shovels their front steps.
"He may even employ his own broom," said one neighbor living in the area where the snowman has been sighted, who refused to be identified. "I see suspicious sweep marks all the time after he leaves."
What apparently is happening is that people living in one particular area of this county wake up on snowy mornings to find that their driveway has already been plowed and their stoops swept.
I encountered one recipient of this unusual charity at acommunity event recently and, after hearing the report, questioned him closely.
"What, you mean a neighbor of yours gets up early in the morning and does your driveway, and that of several other neighbors, too?" I asked incredulously.
"That's right!" he exclaimed. "But no one knows who it is; he is all bundled up and his face is covered by a plastic shield, I suppose to guard against ice chunks or something."
"Good Lord, this is amazing!" I exclaimed. "What doyou do to thank him for this?"
"There is little we can do, he refuses any pay and even any gifts," the resident recipient of the eelemosynary service retorted. "We finally ran after him and put baskets of candy, nuts and cookies on the back of his tractor; we think he doesn't even see them, but maybe his wife takes them in the house after he arrives back home."
"This is an incredible tale of magnanimous philanthropy; does anyone else know about this?" I blurted.
He stammered as he tried to explain: "Well, we wrote to Santa Claus at the North Pole a couple of years ago and we got a Santagram dropped down the chimney denying that the Charitable Snowman was any part of the international Santa Claus organization. So the mystery remains."
What kind of neighborhood is this, anyway?" I queried. "Who lives there and what do they think about this?"
"I can't say much, they won't let me," he whispered. "And no one new is moving in that I cantalk to."
"What do you mean, no one new is moving in? Aren't there houses for sale?"
Are you kidding? With the charitable snowman at work every winter, no one is even thinking about selling their home. And I don't want you mentioning a word of this to anyone."
"OK," I said, crossing my fingers behind my back and preparing to follow him to find out the neighborhood where he lived.###
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