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Longtime street sweeper retires
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Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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July 4, 2008
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BANGOR - One of downtown's unsung heroes was the guest of honor
Thursday at a surprise retirement party at the city's public works
facility on Maine Avenue.
Donald McKenzie, 71, has retired after a nearly three-decade
career with the city, most of it spent as a street sweeper.
Until a few years ago, when he was transferred to the city's
recycling facility on Maine Avenue, McKenzie could be found each
weekday in his orange vest and rubber boots, cleaning downtown
sidewalks and parks, picking up litter in the summer, shoveling snow
in the winter and sweeping dust in the spring.
From 6:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., from the Bangor House to the Bangor
post office, McKenzie - armed with a large, wheeled ...
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