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Dave has a new truck on order. “We will buy new trucks. It’s important to have reliable trucks.”

He also said the department “could use a new paver and one or two leaf suckers.”

Their main garage is 120 feet by 190 feet with a 25-foot by 150-foot attached office, built in 1976. They also have a 40-foot by 70-foot storage barn, a 40-foot by 50-foot salt shed storage and a 55-foot by 70-foot salt barn with a 25-foot by 70-foot lean-to that can store 3,000 tons of salt. The property also houses the town hall and court/troopers building.

On the Green

Dave’s current four-year term expires December 2025. Contemplating retiring “sooner than later,” especially on those winter weekends when he has to get up at 3 a.m. to check the roads, he knows his future doesn’t allow for a lot of time to sit around his new in-ground pool. He’s already so busy, he sold his 30-foot boat last year because, after 20 years of boating, there just isn’t time for it anymore.

“I’ve always had two jobs my entire life,” he said. “I come from the private sector where you have to bust your butt.” continued on page 48 from page 44

His present “second job” is overseeing the executive par 3 golf course he created on his 26-acre farm. He designed the course and, with a partner, opened it to the public in 2005.

Having since bought out his partner, Dave built a “nice clubhouse” — an enclosed banquet facility for 150 that features a bar, where a weekly crowd gathers on Saturdays. “It’s my happy place,” he said.

“It keeps us here,” he said, including his wife of four decades, Ginny, who manages the golf course and banquet facility when she’s not working as the music director of the local Catholic church, where she sings and plays the organ.

Hometown History continued on page 52

“Here” is his hometown of Lockport, population 20,570, established in 1824, the same year the Erie Canal opened from the Hudson River to the Lockport locks. Today, the Lockport Cave & Underground Boat Ride, offering guided historical tours of the 19th-Century locks, caves and tunnels is a popular attraction.

A popular nearby tourist stop is Blackman Homestead Farm, a 160-acre family-owned and -operated farm for more than 150 years. Located on the Niagara Escarpment, the working farm produces apples and other fruit, cider, fruit butter and more.

The town, still largely rural farmland, is known for organizing the first volunteer regiment of the Civil War in 1861 and for being home to the co-inventor of the steam fire engine, Birdsill Holly, who obtained a patent for the fire hydrant in 1869.

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Family Future

Dave and Ginny were high school sweethearts — even though they went to different high schools.

“She lived two miles away in a different county and went to a different school,” he said. They met at a corner store when he was about 15 … and dating her sister. Things changed quickly once they met. “I married young at 19,” he said.

The couple had three children of their own: David, Rachel and Brian. Their kids grown and gone, they thought they were done raising children, but they took in Ginny’s great-niece and -nephew, SherriLynn, and the late Beau about 17 years ago. They acquired legal custody of the two, saving them from a life in foster care.

Grandfather to six, Dave survived a heart attack two years ago. It hasn’t slowed him down, but he is thinking about cutting down to just one job soon.

Before he does, he has some goals to accomplish, like completing the new pond and athletic field at Day Road Park, adding more trails, updating the playground equipment and continuing maintenance.

“I want to leave it better than [it was] when I got here,” he said, adding that he hopes to be remembered as a superintendent who “did a lot of building and saved a lot of money.”

It’s safe to say that this hometown hero will be remembered for a lot more than that.  P

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