Infrastructure repairs, water drainage issue addressed

The City of Pinehurst Council met last Thursday and received information from Mayor Connie Christmas on a number of projects including, “East Railroad, all the driveways, ditches and everything have been done.

West Railroad and along Cypress are scheduled to be done and that area behind the telephone building, the alley that goes to the back of the fire department is an area that has been caving in. Mr. Lance Woods with Ocmulgee Engineering said that the pipe that comes from the drain at the corner has probably collapsed all the way down to the ditch before you get to the cotton warehouses.

The ditch behind those buildings down to West Railroad also needs to be cleared out in order for the water to drain correctly. In regards to the justice center sewage line, they were still having some issues with the grinder and it was discovered that some of the connectors were ‘wrong’, so we’re going to have to replace those, but they are still planning on doing the surveying, etc. to find out what level it should be for the wastewater to come out of the justice center due to the fact that it’s not at the right angle.

We had our EPD water inspection and received the results and except for a couple of minor things that we needed to update, everything was good. We’ve got some issues with the speed bump on West Railroad Street.” 

Following discussion the council agreed that Mayor Christmas should address several incidents that have occurred in regards to the speed bump with the city attorney, “And we can decide about that.”

The mayor continued,”We’ve had a lot of garbage can issues, so we called public works so the procedure now is that if somebody’s trash can gets damaged by the new Waste Management arm is that we have to notify public works of their address and then WM has to deliver the trash can, and remove the old one That arm tears up more trash cans.

Georgiacities.com, the Georgia Municipal Association and Larry Hanson at the GMA June convention decided to declare a Georgia Reads Day and wants everyone to support that. Governor Kemp will hold a press conference and proclaim Monday, September 30 as Georgia Reads Day.

There will be different activities including going into schools to read to the children to promote literacy in our community with libraries, businesses and nonprofits.” The City of Pinehurst then agreed to sign a proclamation and to designate September 30 as ‘Pinehurst Reads Day.’ 

In community news, the mayor announced, “We’re going to have the Fall Festival Sunday, Oct. 27 from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. and Pinehurst Baptist has been the main sponsor, but we’re inviting all the local churches, organizations, the fire department who will cook hotdogs and the Dooly County Sheriff’s Department will have K-9 officers demonstrating, Dooly County EMS. We will have Trunk-or-Treat, games etc.” The council is reaching out into the community for sponsors, volunteers or organizations in the community or clubs at the school to help in painting and beautifying a fire hydrant.

In the minutes from the August 1 meeting it stated, “The leaning power pole on Evergreen Street was reported to Ga. Power and the representative from Ga. Power said that replacement of the pole across from 293 Haslam Avenue will be scheduled and coordinated with the city since it will require a power shutdown for several hours. The city will be notified in advance in order for citizens to be informed.”