In an age when most folks seek instant gratification, one man who has spent more than four decades patiently providing good service received a company’s highest award this week.
Edsil Harding, who began as a packing boy in the now closed City Market on East Bay Street in 1960, was honoured for long and outstanding service during the company’s annual awards luncheon at the Radisson Cable Beach Hotel May 6.
Harding, named City Market’s Distinguished Employee, was cited for 43 years of “dedication, commitment to high goals and first class customer service.”
He received a plaque and several gifts. Fellow employees heaped praise on the man who had held just about every retail job possible in the company – stock boy, dairy box supervisor, assistant manager and for the last 15 years, manager of the Cable Beach Store on West Bay Street.
“When you enjoy what you are doing, you become rejuvenated. When you believe in what you are doing, the job is easy,” Harding said. “I do hope – and I won’t say 40 more years – but I’m looking forward to many more years with City Market”.
Included among this year’s 69 awardees were Bernard Beneby and Rowena Miller, who both started with City Market in 1967. Franklyn Burnside, manager of the Rosetta Street store, met his 30-year mark and John Woodside from the audit department, completed 25 years of outstanding service.
