While staying with cousins in Truckee, California we called here for snow removal
Service staff graciously answered all our questions promptly which made a good first impression
Locally owned and operated
Has average prices
That brought out some really cool equipment
Truth is the highest virtue, but higher still is truthful living. --Sikh Guru Nanak
Did what they're in business to do
Did it for the price they quoted us.
Did it within the time they said they would
Delivered what they advertise
Customer service was adequate and alacritous
No one here offered to commit fraud to reward us, pay us or compensate us for posting 5 star reviews of this business
I rate here 3 stars. According to Yelp ratings' definitions, that's "Ok". That to me is an acceptable rating of something that does day in and day out what it is there to do. It's NOT a negative review because doing day in and day out what it is there to do is NOT an easy thing to accomplish.
The owners of this business like their Freedom so they have a Military and Veterans Discount as a thank you to Veterans with a publicly disclosed daily Veteran Discount which provides resource to ensure Veterans (rare 7% of the population) and GIs (rare one-half of one percent of the population) opportunity to participate in American Dream Veterans and GIs' sacrifices have made possible for 100% of the population. That's what earned them the fourth star for going beyond what they're in in business to do.
February is Black History Month
The Medal of Honor is the United States' highest award for military Valor. Since its inception some 150 years ago, a very few 3,535 to date have been awarded the Medal of Honor.
Daniel John Atkins' was born 18 November 1866, in Brunswick, Virginia.
He enlisted in US Navy 27 January 1888.
By the time the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, Atkins had attained the rank of Ship's Cook First Class and was sent to Serve on US Navy's first torpedo boat, the USS Cushing (Torpedo Boat #1/TB-1).
11 February 1898, the USS Cushing was on its way from Key West, Florida to Havana to deliver stores to the battleship USS Maine, which was there to protect American interests during Cuba's revolt against the Spanish government.
Most of the details of what happened were told in a letter written by US Navy Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves to the father of Ensign Joseph C. Breckinridge, who was the Cushing's Executive Officer. The letter was published in various US newspapers a few days after the incident that earned then Ship's Cook First Class Atkins the Medal of Honor.
According to Rear Admiral Gleaves, a large wave whipped up from extreme winds from a harsh storm swept Cushing's Executive Officer overboard into the turbulent cold sea.
A boat that was dispatched with two crew members for a rescue was flipped over by the violent sea and wind. One of those rescuers now in the cold and heavy sea was Gunner's Mate 1st Class John Everetts. Those two rescuers now in the cold sea were hauled back onto the Cushing while all the rescuers aboard and in the sea were thrashed by wind and waves,
Seeing that the swept overboard Ensign Breckinridge was now some 30 feet away from the Cushing Gunner's Mate 1st Class Everetts jumped overboard, swam through the choppy sea and managed to tie a lifeline around Ensign Breckinridge's body.
Ship's Cook First Class Atkins, who had been part of the rescue effort, saw that Gunner's Mate 1st Class Everetts was now struggling with exhaustion in the brutal sea. He knew more help was needed. According to an account of the incident in a 1969 Pittsburgh Courier article, 32 year-old Ship's Cook First Class Atkins then heroically jumped into the frigid and turbulent sea to save swept overboard Ensign Breckinridge and now exhausted rescuer Gunner's Mate 1st Class Everetts. When Atkins reached the two men he tied lines around both. One at a time, they were all pulled back to the ship.
For his actions, Ship's Cook First Class Atkins the Medal of Honor was awarded the Medal of Honor.
After 33 years of Service, black American Atkins retired from US Navy October 1921 as a US Navy Chief Commissary Stewart.
Nineteen months later, 11 May 1923, at the age of 56, Atkins died. He was buried at the Captain Ted Conaway Memorial Naval Cemetery in Portsmouth.
Gunner's Mate 1st Class John Everetts also received the Medal of Honor for his attempt to save his ship's Executive Officer.
Ship's Executive Officer Ensign Joseph C. Breckinridge drowned after being swept overboard and the crew of Cushing was unable to resuscitate him after rescue. read more