Before dawn the bandstand at Veterans Memorial Park stands alone under the streetlights, its roof wearing an inch of new snow like a hat. A1 Veteran Lawn Care and Snow Management is already out by then, clearing driveways and walks across McHenry while the town sleeps through the last hour of the storm. Plow, shovel, salt — the order rarely changes, and neither does the goal: a clean apron of pavement waiting when the porch light comes on. Ice control gets its own attention, because the cold snaps here have a habit of arriving right behind the snowfall. Winter routes run through McHenry, Johnsburg, McCullom Lake and Ringwood.