Woman, 87, Loves To Shovel Snow For Busy Neighbors

[matcom]

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It is a ubiquitous prod during snowstorms in New England: Please help your elderly neighbors. But on River Street in Waltham, no one gets the chance. By the time many residents get home from work, 87-year-old Nellie Tambascia has already shoveled her sidewalk. And theirs, too.

"They're young," she said yesterday. "They have to go to work, so they don't have time for this."

When it snows as it has been snowing this week, Tambascia is out all day. Yesterday, she patiently traversed her driveway and front walk, as well as those of her neighbors, from 5 a.m. to 4 p.m., taking breaks only for coffee and lunch.

The retired school crossing guard took on the chore after her husband died in 1994. He, too, had shoveled out the neighbors. Now, she says, she talks to him while she works. Sometimes she asks him to make it stop snowing.

"It's not working," she said yesterday. "Mama mia, did we have snow!"

Tambascia admits that sometimes her bones creak. But she refuses to quit. When a neighbor came by with his new snowblower yesterday, she politely turned him away.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/01/27/at_87_she_shovels_for_others/

[demnan]

1. Bless her heart!

She keeps active and thinks of others. That's a prescription for longevity if ever I saw one.

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. It's amazing how some older folks just have it together.

My wife's grandma is 93 (going on 94 soon) and is still sharp as a tack. She can't be bothered with being old.

[Solly Mack]

3. Incredible lady!

Much admiration

[underpants]

4. matcomnews becomes pravda to explain its mistreatment of seniors

Get out there and shovel your own damned snow you lazy BAHstad!

:bounce:

[matcom]

6. hey. i'm being paid well DAMMIT!

just WAIT until later today when i "report" that Doris Day was actually an Italian Porn Film star!

just.you.wait.

[underpants]

7. Oh who doesn't know about THAT?

Ooooooold news

[shesemsmom]

5. WOW

I hope I feel that good at her age