About 90 Clevelanders volunteers braved the cold this week to shovel the driveways and walkways of their neighbors — many of whom they didn't even know.

Those included Mary McNamara, who leads the city's Department of Aging. She bundled up, shovel in hand, to help an elderly neighbor in her Detroit Shoreway neighborhood.

"As I was leaving, she came out on our porch and she said, 'I have a nine o'clock doctor’s appointment today, and I shoveled as much as I could; you showing up today made such a difference,'" McNamara said. "She said, 'I'm not sure I would have gone to the doctor's appointment had you not come today.'"

The Department of Aging's new Snow Heroes pilot program is an initiative that's part of the city’s age-friendly communities plan, which aims to keep seniors in their home

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