December 9th, 2016
CAMBRIDGE – Ice and wind may have been wreaking havoc on local roads early this afternoon (Dec. 8), but a group of Southwood Secondary students served as Good Snow Samaritans to help get stuck drivers out of a jam.
West Galt resident Angela Petit wants to give the teens a public shout out for having the backs of drivers whose vehicles couldn’t navigate icy hills of Cedar Street around noon.
Petit had stepped out onto her apartment balcony to capture some video footage of trucks and cars sliding up and down the road. Wheels on transport and delivery trucks were locking up and sliding down the street, honking horns to warn drivers, while many passenger vehicles were simply spinning their wheels, unable to make it up the hill.
While filming, a group of backpack carrying teenagers entered her view and that’s when Petit’s worry turned to wow. The teens first came to the rescue of a white van stuck on the hill.
“All of sudden these students came, turned around and started pushing this van up, and once they did that one, they waited and the next (vehicle) couldn’t do it, so they did it again and again.”
Sliding on the slippery streets themselves, the group of students worked together to keep traffic moving.
“They just teamed up and they started pushing these cars and helping them out,” she told the Times.
Petit, who lives close to Southwood Secondary School, contacted the high school’s office later that afternoon to confirm her suspicion the big-hearted teens were enrolled there.
The office, she said, had already heard about the good deed, however, the school’s administration would not release the names of the students to the Times citing privacy reasons.
Petit reached out to the Times and uploaded the videos on Facebook and YouTube as a reminder to those who are losing faith in young generations.
Waterloo Regional Police were kept busy with scores of crashes around the region.
http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/community-story/7010663-good-snow-samaritans-help-out-on-cedar-street-hill/
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