Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) member Ed Dry of Cattaraugus County, New York one of many Department of Transportation workers who helped clear streets following an October storm. Officials have said the wood chips from the storm would cover 25 acres and the tree limbs picked up and hauled away would fll a professional football statium. CSEA members answered the call in four Western New York counties when a freak October storm that dumped nearly two feet of snow on the area ripped down trees and knocked out power to almost 400,000 households.
Salamanca, New York, Police officers Chris Hutchison and Jeffrey DaHill and Chief Troy Westfall are members of a police department that makes twice as many arrests as departments in bigger cities and towns, but with half as many officers. Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) members in the department were part of an investigation that led to a major drug bust in predominantly rural Cattaraugus County in Western New York, taking a large amount of crack cocaine off the streets and serving 21 federal arrest warrants.