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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2018
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Cadiz residents bring complaints to council By JD LONG
jim@harrisonnewsherald.com
CADIZ – Last Thursday saw an unusually high citizen output of complaints for Cadiz village council at their bi-monthly meeting last week. The first to lead off was former village employee Denver Smith who wished to notify council of their street work, specifically the fittings within their water line project. “The water projects that have been done in this town are not to the benefit of all the property owners that it’s been done for,� Smith began. The former 30year employee explained that from
“what I observed and what I’ve seen they haven’t been done correctly.� Smith told council he felt whoever did the orders for those jobs, “it was not spec’d correctly.� Smith said he hadn’t seen every street being worked on but the ones he had said he’s noticed “splices in the roads to services to the houses,� adding that when he was on the job this just wasn’t done. He said in order to protect the people’s services that the village should be responsible from the main to the curb boxes. Smith then pulled out of his pocket two different brass fittings and stated that inside some of the fittings are sharp edges and with most of the service lines
being done with plastic, he said the contractions and expansions will cause the plastic line to crack and eventually leak. What was ascertained between Smith and several council members who wanted clarification was that the plastic line that is coming from the main is being spliced in the middle of the road instead of going all the way to the curb and replacing the curb box. “They are not replacing to the curb box of each residence,� Smith said. “For those people to be responsible clear to that main line, who’s going to have to pay for it?� he asked. “The person who owns the property and that’s not right, not when it’s not being done correctly.�
Smith once again stated that the lines spliced in the road will eventually leak and suggested council pass an ordinance stating the village is to be responsible from the main service line tap out to the curb box. “I mean, it just makes common sense to protect the people,� Smith told council. Next up was Chris Kowalski, stating she was a new resident of Cadiz and informed council of the constant flooding near her home down on Country Club Manor. She said signs were put up warning of high water and when residents tried getting through they could not. “Every time it rains this happens and
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I can’t understand why. Does anybody have an answer?� she asked council adding that the constant flooding is at the entrance. Council Member Mike McPeak agreed that something needs to be done after she cited a school bus stopping and kids having to navigate around or through some of the high water. Village Administrator Charley Bowman said they would follow up on the matter. Finally, area resident Leanne Mikesell and several council members engaged in a short but rather testy exchange over council’s attendance numbers at a public hearing. It happened
See COMPLAINTS PG. 2
Tubaugh says Scio projects are on schedule By JD LONG
jim@harrisonnewsherald.com
SCIO – Wednesday saw Village Administrator Jason Tubaugh give a relatively short rundown of his bimonthly report on the waterline projects, ball field reclamation, park and some EPA information. Beginning with the water treatment plant (WTP), Tubaugh explained a new pump is on order for well #1 with installation scheduled
for next week. Several other pumps are being prepared for next week as well. He called the second baseball field reclamation a one-day event and will be done “after the new well pump is installed next week.� “The final payment for the project will be held until all aspects of the project are completed,� Tubaugh told council. He said they are holding back “in excess of
See SCIO PG. 3
Presbyterian Church of Cadiz welcomes Alan Jeffries as new pastor NH Photo | ESTHER McCOY
George Bedway demonstrates the Bucyrus Erie Walking Dragline 3270 Bucket 175 scale model to Gary Garczyk of Maynard who worked at No. 6 of Armstrong Mills, Powhattan mine. He started the job while still in high school and had to miss work to go to his graduation, the only time he was excused.
Coal miners reunion held at Puskarich Library BY ESTHER MCCOY NH Contributor
CADIZ - When coal was king in Cadiz, there were many men who were fresh out of high school or even some who went to school in the day and worked afternoon shift in the mines; plus men and women spending their lifetime in the coal industry, who were left with memories of friends, workers and situations regarding their time when the coal business flourished. Coming all together at the Puskarich Public Library for a first-time Coal Miners Reunion, they greeted each other and told where they had worked. They reminisced about doing above ground or underground work, manning big coal removal shovels or in the preparation plant, spending much time in talking and looking over the mining artifacts and pictures that are present in the Coal Mining Museum. Randy Ball of Cadiz worked in Franklin
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Mine at Hanna Coal Co. and then with Consol for a total of 30 years. He worked underground for 20 years and 10 doing surface mining. He learned what hard work meant when he went to work loading coal by hand into wooden carts for the DeCort Coal Company at 19-years-old. "You would put a metal tag with your number into the loaded wooden cart to determine what your pay check would be at the end of the work week. You talk about hard work!" he said, with a pained smile of remembering. Ball sat down to write the names of miners he remembered in looking at a picture shown to him by Sandi Thompson, executive librarian. "This helps us out a lot," she said. Don Richards of Hopedale proudly showed a huge Bucyrus Erie sign he painted and has mounted on the wall at the museum. "There was difficulty in painting it as the sign material was like granite and was hard to apply
the red and white paint.," he said. Richards pointed to a picture of a huge shovel on the wall where a small replica of the sign was mounted to the front of a coal shovel. He is an officer with the Harrison Coal Mining and Reclamation group as well. Jim Thompson of Jewett, 81-years-old, started working the mines in 1965 at North American, Jensie Mine in East Springfield, where a scale house was located. He did not have the use of a carbide lamp on his mining hard hat but remembers seeing one that his dad used in his mining years. Thompson told there had been mining done years back where the new Harrison Central School is being built. He was a steel hauler from Pittsburgh to the area and also from Marion and Mansfield as well. "Then I got out of the coal mining business and worked in the mill, " he told.  Gary Garczyk of Maynard worked at the
See REUNION, PG. 3
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Hall of Fame inductees announced
Bartims pleads guilty, faces up to life in prison
The Harrison Central Sports Foundation and Hall of Fame Committee announced this year’s inductees. See Page 8
Former Bowerston council member, Robert Bartiums was in court on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to rape. See Page 4
The Presbyterian Church of Cadiz welcomed Rev. Alan Jeffries as their new pastor on Sept. 2. Rev. Jeffries was born and raised in Shadyside, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor's degree in secondary education and was briefly employed as a high school language arts instructor. Prior to his getting a call to the ministry, he was a Sunday School teacher, then a session elder at Cadiz Presbyterian. Over time he began to sense that God was calling him to ministry and entered the process of exploring this call through the Presbytery under the guidance of the late Rev. William Hudson. He entered Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and during his time there he was given the opportunity to serve the Third Presbyterian Church in Wheeling, W.Va., as student pastor for three years.
He graduated from PTS with a Master of Divinity degree. After Third Presbyterian closed he accepted the position of temporary supply pastor at Trinity United Presbyterian in Bergholz, Ohio, where he was ordained and served for twelve years. Rev. Jeffries will be installed as pastor of the Cadiz Presbyterian Church on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 3 p.m. There will be light refreshments following the ceremony. Rev. Jeffries currently resides in Cadiz.
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