Emmett Charter Township keeps two calendars, and Heacock's Property Maintenance works them both. Summer is the mowing rotation — even passes, trimmed corners around posts and beds, a straight line along the walks, and nothing left on the pavement. Winter is the other shift entirely: plowing drives and lots ahead of the morning commute, clearing walks and steps, and salting the ice that Calhoun County's thaw-and-freeze keeps making out of yesterday's melt. Between the east edge of Battle Creek and the open farm ground, most properties here need looking after in both directions. Same route, same address list, all the way around the year.