What a wonderful way to help people, thought James Christopher “JC” Bozic, a 17-year-old high school football player from Clinton, Pennsylvania. Last year, he was watching a news report about the Snow Angels project in Pittsburgh, which recruits volunteers to shovel snow after winter storms for residents in need. 

“Why don’t we have a program like that in our area?” JC asked his mother, Vicki. 

“I don’t know, but it sure would help a lot of our neighbors,” she replied. 

Right then, mother and son got an idea: Why don’t we start a similar program ourselves? 

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Excited, JC knew he could recruit some friends from school to shovel for people in their area in need of assistance. Vicki posted the offer for snow services on a local Facebook group, and she got numerous responses. 

“How much is it?” people would always ask. But JC refused to take any money.

The senior, who is graduating this year and plans to attend college to study forensic chemistry and play football, named his project SnowBusters. Last year, he took on 27 families, and this year, he is up to 29. 

Many of the neighbors he serves are elderly or have a disability. Sometimes, JC spends more than four hours doing all the shoveling by himself after every snowfall. But he has also recruited seven of his friends, along with his mom, to help on occasion. 

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And his neighbors are endlessly grateful for JC and his crew’s efforts, including Beverly Mooney, 75, of North Fayette, Pennsylvania. “My husband, Frank, is in his 80s with multiple myeloma, and I recently had back surgery. Shoveling snow would be very difficult for either of us,” Beverly says. “JC is a godsend. I knew when the snow was coming that they were going to be there for us.”

As for JC’s mom, Vicki is incredibly proud of her only child, who also has volunteered to help at the fire department.

“He’s my whole world,” says Vicki. “It’s nice to see that I did it right. I raised a great young man. This kid is going to change the world.”

Since he will be graduating in the spring, JC didn’t want to leave the community without a helping hand next winter, so he has already made plans to pass SnowBusters on to his cousin, Tyler.

“Why should I just stand on the side and have them struggle? I see someone who obviously can’t do it on their own and I just think to myself, I can do that,” JC says. “I’ve been in this community for a long time and it’s definitely a part of me. I just want to give back to everyone who has supported me.”