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Longtime roads superintendent Earl Covert retired from his position with the Municipality of Highlands East in April. Covert began working for the department after high school and prior to amalgamation, and was celebrated with a Distinguished Service Award last year. /Submitted photo
News12 May 2021
By Sue Tiffin
Highlands East roads superintendent Earl Covert has retired after 46 years from a job that all started because of a snowfall.
Covert, who has lived in Highland Grove his entire life, graduated from high school in Bancroft and then began working at Wilberforce Veneer and Lumber Company for about two-and-a-half years after school.