Charles A Heck

About Charles A Heck

Three in the morning on Forty Foot Road: no traffic, no color at all but the amber wash of a plow light on falling snow. That is the hour Charles A Heck keeps in Hatfield Township, pushing driveways open, cutting a path down the walk, laying salt where the meltwater will refreeze by six. Storms in this part of Montgomery County can start as powder and finish as sleet, and the difference decides how the morning goes for everyone who has to leave the house. The reward is small and complete — a clean apron of blacktop, a stoop you can step onto in ordinary shoes. Charles A Heck works the whole cold half of the calendar across Hatfield Township and the towns beside it.