TOWN OF WEBSTER HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT GOES TO HOLLYWOOD

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Webster, N.Y.--  The Voice Reporter recently learned that one of our Units of CSEA Local 828, the Town of Webster Unit 7411, were asked to help Hollywood make a big time blockbuster summertime movie.  Below you will find a letter that was sent to the Webster Hearld by Town of Webster Highway Superintendent Joe Herbst.

Here is the letter:

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES VAULT WEBSTER TO BIG SCREEN

Webster, N.Y.--  Former Webster resident Peter Brown remembers growing up in town listening to the plow trucks run the roads through the winter season here. That unique sound etched in his memory came to surface decades later while working as “supervising sound production editor” for the company responsible for the sounds in the newly released movie “Fast Five”. Peter came home for Christmas and we were able to coordinate and achieve the sounds he had remembered. A Webster Highway plow truck actually produced the sound of the vault being dragged through the streets of Rio de Janeiro. Though masked at times by all the other action, the unique sound is recognized throughout the ten minute vault scene.

Sights and sounds we take for granted here in the snow producing environment are unique in this fashion because they are not available or indicative to southern or western states, not to mention to Brazil.

Winter can seem harsh, more so towards the tail end of it. As dismal as it may seem to some, it is tolerable when compared to the 230+ tornadoes and devastation left behind just a couple weeks ago in the states below us. Winter is tame when compared to the earthquakes and tsunami that annihilated a portion of Japan or the hurricanes that taunt the south and east on a regular seasonal basis. Our snow melts away with little evidence and leaves along with that season.

It took a childhood wintertime memory to connect the east coast to west coast, with Webster being the link. Sights, sounds and memories are what we all carry with us from day to day and into our lifetime when growing up in an exceptional town like Webster.