Richard's helping hands

About Richard's helping hands

Around Fairmont Park, South Salt Lake's older bungalow streets sit close to the sidewalk, small yards and short front walks that fill in fast with snow after even a modest storm. Richard's helping hands works those blocks personally — one house at a time, one walk at a time, the kind of steady, door-to-door pace that a bigger operation might skip past. The job is straightforward: clear the driveway, clear the walk to the door, break up whatever ice has formed on the front step overnight. Fairmont's older trees drop enough shade that some of these walks stay icy well after the sunnier blocks nearby have dried out. Getting to every one of them, not just the easy ones, is the whole point of working a neighborhood this way.