Plenty of which to be thankful

Here’s the latest announcement from Westminster:  “Yesterday evening, Easter Sunday, about 6:20 PM a connection was made between two sections of pipe that completed the permanent re-routing of the water line between points west of Singleton Road & Hwy.123/ Toccoa Hwy. back to the water source. Approximately 300 households west of this point have been without water service since Saturday afternoon around 3:30 PM. Today the City issued a boiled a “Boiled Water Advisory”. This Advisory will allow water use for sanitary purposes but recommend boiling water approximately 1 minute before consumption. The boiled water notice contains the protocol going forward. Easter Sunday is an important Holiday in this County and a day in which ‘thankfulness’ is first and foremost in our minds. We here at the City of Westminster are thankful today for: The willingness of Tugaloo Pipe Co., owned and operated by the Edward Haire Family of Cleveland Pike Road, for pulling their equipment back in to Westminster from other areas and that seven of their employees were willing to give up their Sunday Holiday to work on completing over 900 feet of the 1400 feet of the re-routing that remained to be completed. What happened on Sunday would not have been possible without this Firm and their employees. Oconee County employees and specifically Rick Martin of the Oconee County Rock Quarry. Two employees left at 11 PM Saturday night to drive to Lexington, SC and transport a tracked vehicle, known as a “rock hammer,” back to Oconee County. Upon return these Oconee County employees operated that equipment in a rock formation on Singleton Road which allowed the remaining installation of the pipe to occur on Sunday. The willingness of the rental company in Lexington to allow one of their employees to go in and position this piece of equipment outside their fenced in area, leaving a key in it, for the Oconee employees to transport it back here in the early morning hours of Sunday. Our own eight employees, which, like the ones named above, gave up their Sunday Holiday to begin work early in the morning and until late last night. We are grateful to live in a community where people can still recognize need and the inconvenience being experienced by others and give up what they are entitled too and perform admirably like those named above. Their efforts shortened, what appeared on Saturday to be lengthy water outage to less than 48 hours.”