CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Cedar Rapids is looking for more volunteers for its Snow Buddies program to help residents clear their driveways and sidewalks this winter.

Paulette Wenzel signed up for Cedar Rapids’ Snow Buddies sidewalk removal program for the first time this year. With the unpredictability winter can bring, she said the volunteers have been a lifesaver.

“It’s like winning the lottery, you know? It’s surreal,” Wenzel said. “It’s really helped me because I can’t do it anymore. I have a really bad back and it’s costly. So many businesses are charging way too much. So, they’re angels. They’re helping me. You know, they’re only supposed to do the sidewalks, but they say I don’t have that much, so they do it all.”

Jeff Wozencraft with the Community Development Department said t

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