Eubank —
A bursted water pipe in the wall of the new Eubank Senior Citizens Center recently flooded the building, causing hundreds of dollars in damages and delaying opening of the facility for two or three months.Eubank Mayor Frey Todd said the original hardwood floor of the former skating rink building will have to be refinished and tile must be replaced.
“If I didn’t have bad luck I wouldn’t have any luck at all,” grimaced Todd, referring to frustrations of nearly five years of work on the project and earlier delays caused by three formal bid openings before a contractor could be found.
The renovated old skating rink building on Ky. 70 at the front of Eubank Community Park is a project of which Todd was extremely proud. The weathered exterior of the old building, sans a front door, is face-lifted with a cottage entrance into a welcoming foyer. The original hardwood floor of the skating rink had been preserved and finished.
A meeting room on the east side of the 5,000-square-foot structure will accommodate up to 200 people, and a smaller room on the west side could seat 50 or more, Todd said.
Rest rooms, befitting a modern hotel, are ready for men and women. A spacious kitchen with more than ample cabinets will be equipped with a stove, dishwasher and microwave.
Walking space will be reserved around the large room for seniors and their exercise routines. The entire facility will be heated in winter with propane and air-conditioning will cool in summer. A sophisticated and costly sprinkler system adds protection.
Todd said he doesn’t know the exact dollar cost of the water damage, but he indicated it is considerable.
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Eubank Mayor Frey Todd is shown in a recent photograph at the front of the about-to-open senior citizens center. Opening has been delayed by a bursted water pipe in a wall that flooded the building, doing hundreds of dollars in damage.
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Big Bang Theory
Pulaski County is not at war. The booming you may hear at dusk is mock cannon fire to scare away birds.
Stuart Spillman, environmental director for the Lake Cumberland Health Department, said at least three cannons are on loan from the department to residents who want to scare away swarms of starlings and blackbirds settling in to roost.
He said a cannon is being used by a resident on Laura Lane off Ky. 39; another is in the Oak Hill Road area and a third is on Ashurst Street in the eastern part of Somerset.
Spillman said a timer on each cannon allows it to “fire” at whatever frequency is desired. The cannons must be used as the birds circle before going to roost. “After they settle in, nothing will chase them out,” Spillman said.
The Health Department doesn’t operate the cannons unless there is a specific complaint in an area where there are lots of birds, Spillman noted. He said so far this year the birds are not as bad as in the past. -
Boil water advisory is lifted countywide
The water controversy that Pulaski County has been boiling over — so to speak — for the last week is finally over.
At 10 minutes after noon Wednesday, the “boil water” advisory for the Western Pulaski Water District was lifted — almost a full week after the problems began around 1 p.m. last Thursday.
Prior to that, the Somerset Water Service — along with the other water providers in its system, including Science Hill Water, Southeastern Water, and Eubank Water — lifted their advisories, with Somerset on Saturday afternoon and the last, Southeastern, by Monday morning. Western Pulaski was the last in the system to complete sample testing for potential contaminants, due to not being able to access its Pikeville-based testing lab until Monday.
Somerset Mayor Eddie Girdler thanked the public for its patience and understanding during the duration of the boil water advisory — put in place to keep citizens from drinking water that could have been contaminated after an accident last Thursday at the water plant site — and also thanked all the city employees for their hard work during this time.
“The boil water advisory went about as well as would be expected,” said Girdler.
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