Smokes Creek runs loud and brown through Lackawanna in April, and that sound is the starting gun. Bender Lawn Care answers it with the first cleanup of the year — winter grit and broken twigs raked off, beds cleared, the turf combed open so it can breathe. Then comes the long mowing season, week after week, with trimming around hydrants and clothesline poles and a crisp edge cut where lawn meets driveway. Grass here greens early and holds late, fed by the damp air that drifts in off the water. From Lackawanna the work carries out to Blasdell, Hamburg, West Seneca and the South Buffalo line.