Eric McIlhenny knew all too well about the hazards and inconveniences of trying to work in and outside of the old bus garage utilized by the Stafford Township School District.
“It was in pretty bad shape,” the senior bus mechanic of 20 years said about the 3,480-square-foot garage built in 1955. “The buses didn’t fit in it, and it didn’t have lifts. To fix a lot of things, we rolled around underneath the buses in the cold, the heat, rain, snow, whatever, and there was a lot of heavy lifting.
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