Man shovels at train station for fiancee

HARVEY, Ill., Feb. 12 (UPI) -- A man shoveling snow at a suburban Chicago train station said he was getting the sidewalk ready for his fiancee's return from work.

Phyllis Jones, a legal assistant at a Chicago firm, said she was at the Harvey Metra station the day after nearly 2 feet of snow fell on the area when she spotted a lone man clearing the sidewalk, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday.

The man told her he was not working for Metra or the city, but rather was getting the sidewalk ready for his fiancee's commute home from work.

"My fiancee had to come through here, and when she gets off from work, I want to make sure that she can get through without a problem," she quoted the man as saying.

Jones put out flyers seeking to identify the "hero in Harvey" and they caught the attention of Sylvia Tookes, 43, who knew they were talking about her fiance, Charles Pryor, 35.

"Whatever it takes to make sure she's OK, that is natural to me," Pryor said of Tookes. "I'm supposed to make sure if it's snowing, she has a path to walk down. Asking if she had a nice day or even trying to cook for her, whatever it takes."

The couple said the Harvey Metra station was where they first met.

"Everything that I love in a woman, she showed me right there when I met her," he said.