HANNIBAL, Mo. (WGEM) - Utility officials in Hannibal and Ralls County say residents in and around Hannibal still need to conserve water after the basement in the treatment plant flooded Sunday afternoon.

BPW customers and Public Water Supply District One of Ralls County residents are under the conservation plan. Monday afternoon, PWSD and Board of Public Works issued a boil order for all customers in the service territories through Wednesday at 1 p.m.

Places like the Hannibal Nutrition Center, which serves meals to dozens of people a day, had to switch gears fast.

"So anything that we cooked today, we used boiled water on and then for our dinner tonight we're making sure that we even boiled our coffee and tea to make sure we took care of that matter," Executive Director Debbie Catlett said. Ice was another concern for Catlett. So much so, workers went to a gas station to get enough for the day. Resident Tony Weldy said even he didn't fully understand how much water he used until Monday.

"I do realize it, but I don't realize what all you need clean water for, I guess sometimes, so washing dishes in the dishwasher even or even taking a bath or shower," Weldy said. BPW Director of Operations Heath Hall still isn't sure how this happened, but the department is already trying to figure out ways to make sure they don't find themselves in this situation again.

"We have several ideas in the works on how to prevent this from happening again, from putting some extra alarms in, to raising the motors up even higher," Hall said. "There are several things in the works, so we're going to try. Many of them very cheap."

Catlett said it's a wakeup call for anyone who takes their drinking water for granted.

"It's terrifying to think about it," Catlett said. "We all count on it, we're all so used to it. We're not ready for it really so we're all just going to have to do our best."

Crews worked Sunday night and Monday cleaning debris and monitoring water levels. General Manager Robert Stevenson says the system has been using clean water out of storage tanks. The tanks hold about 6,000,000 gallons of water and 1,000,000 gallons was lost during the incident. The city uses approximately 3,500,000 gallons of water per day.

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Police Chief Tim Storbeck will be guest speaker at the July 15 meeting of the West Milford Lakes Committee.

The committee has been formulating questions to pre-sent to Storbeck about law enforcement topics of interest to people in the lake communities. The general public is welcomed by the committee to attend all the committees meetings.

One of the subjects the lakes committee wants information from the police chief about is a problem of unlicensed quads and dirt bikes being operated in the various communities. The committee members at their June 17 meeting said this is a major problem in some places.

The lake representatives said they also want to know about how to deal with trespassers in the private communities; if there are police patrols on privately-owned lake community streets and roads; if the police department provides officers for lake community events and if so what is the procedure. The committee said they also want to know about a pooper scooper ordinance and what the procedure regarding it is.

Lake residents with additional questions for Storbeck should pass them on to their lakes committee representative.

Seeing that property owners comply with the existing township ordinance requiring pumping of individual septic systems every 3 years has been coming up during the general discussions at most recent committee meetings.

Health Director Michael Fitzpatrick has been checking with the Spatial Diagnostic System to see if data reports can be generated. The committee is waiting for Fitzpatricks answer to this question.

Volunteers will be needed to input data. The committee is also waiting to hear from Fitzpatrick if high school students can be asked to do some of this work. Any adult volunteers with computer skills to enter the data should let the Health Department know or attend a Lakes Committee meeting, usually on the third Monday of each month.

The pertinent information to be gathered for listing will include who pumped, who did not, note of pumping that showed problems and pumping that did not show problems.

Result will be that if a property has not met the pumping requirements a notice will be sent by the Health Department telling the property owner to comply, Fitzpatrick told the committee at the June 3 meeting. He said notices would be sent out if there is no record of pumping. After a second notice is sent to property owners and there is still no response procedures for fines will be applied, the health director said.

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A Fort Worth artists work will help teach ex-offenders a skill and a sensibility.

With the help of 10 former jail inmates, Fort Worth artist Pamela Summers is getting ready to install a 240-foot mosaic ribbon for the city of Grand Prairie. It wont be her first time working with those who have been through the criminal justice system, but it will be the biggest public art piece of her career.

Summers, whose mosaics can be seen in Fort Worth parks and along the Trinity Trails, is teaming up with participants in Grand Prairies Weed-N-Seed job-training program. The group of ex-offenders will install the mosaic that Summers designed along a concrete retaining wall on Northeast 15th Street off I-30.

As part of the program, participants receive tile work training and basic art education. The aim is to weed out crime and seed in beneficial practices to help ex-offenders gain job skills. Besides tile skills, the nonviolent offenders will learn about bringing an artistic design to life.

Were not trying to turn them into artists were trying to turn them into someone who can install art, said Tammy Chan, special projects manager in the city managers office.

Chan has managed the Weed-N-Seed program since 2002. She also works with the public streetscaping coordinator and the Keep Grand Prairie Beautiful program. I try to merge all three whenever possible, and this project represents that, she said.

A $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and donations from local sponsors are funding the $185,000 project.

The Grand Prairie Sports Facilities Development Corporation is matching the NEA grant. The corporation, which operates Lone Star Park horse track, promotes city projects that reduce unemployment. Local commercial tiling companies Five Star Flooring and ARDEX Americas hosted grant-funded workshops on grout and mortar and how to prepare the wall for the mosaic. Grant money is also paying for online courses from the University of Ceramic Tile and Stone, in which participants will earn certifications to help them find future jobs.

The Weed-N-Seed re-entry program is about to shrink. In the future, it will be open only to Grand Prairie residents and will serve half as many people per year about 60 rather than the current 120, said Andy White, assistant to the city manager.

White said no final decisions have been made. Currently, only 25 to 30 percent of participants find full-time work because many dont have the needed documents, like a state-issued identification card, he said.

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Jurors at the inquest into Lloyd Butler, 39 from Tile Cross, also criticised West Midlands Police for failing to follow rousing procedures.

A jury has said a Birmingham dad who died in police custody would have survived if he had been in hospital.

Jurors at the inquest into Lloyd Butler, 39 from Tile Cross, also criticised West Midlands Police for failing to follow rousing procedures.

Louise Hunt coroner for Birmingham is now issuing a report to the force and said a 'change of culture' was needed.

She said: "I remain concerned about the conduct in custody suites. I appreciate a custody suite is a very difficult environment to work in but you have very vulnerable people coming in."

Mr Butler, from Tile Cross, was taken to Stechford police station on August 4, 2010 after his mother Janet dialled 999 when she couldnt remove him from her husband Ralphs car.

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NEW GLASGOW New Glasgow Junior High student Aaron Day gets ready to put another small glass tile on in place.

New Glasgow Junior High students Max van Zyl, left, Caroline Mahoney and Aaron Day take a break from working on a mosaic that will adorn the floor of the lobby of New Glasgow Academy. Students from Acadia Street, Temperance at Brown and New Glasgow Junior High came in shifts to assemble the culturally inclusive design. JOHN BRANNEN THE NEWS

Gold tiles go where the grid is gold, red where the grid is red and so on.

Its a lot of hard work and patience, he said as he put some white glue on another tile.

Day, along with fellow students Caroline Mahoney and Max van Zyl, had been working all day Wednesday on a large mosaic that will adorn the floor of the foyer at New Glasgow Academy.

Like the many tiles coming together to form a complete picture, students from Acadia Street, Temperance at Brown and New Glasgow Junior High came in shifts to assemble the mosaic. Soon, they will all be students at the new school.

The circular design, created by education assistant Helen Boucher, was meant to include and reflect the diversity of the students who will be attending New Glasgow Academy.

I think that it does a great job of complimenting all the cultures, said Mahoney.

The mosaic includes drums representing African-Nova Scotians, the eagle representing Mikmaq students, the thistle for those of Scottish descent, the New Glasgow flourish sun with the paw print of the schools mascot, the panther. Also included are the Nova Scotia tartan and the schools colours, emerald green and blue.

Boucher noted the circular design denotes unity and coming together as one.

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Casual business attire is redefined in the summer frequently to shocking results. But a company has to be careful how it addresses the employee who comes into work in a midriff and flip-flops.

A male employee having a one-on-one consultation involving inappropriate dress with a female employee can easily spin into what is perceived as a harassing conversation, said David Lewis, president and CEO of OperationsInc, a Norwalk, Conn., human resources outsourcing and consulting company.

That doesnt mean a company should avoid a difficult conversation. In fact, confronting dress code rebels quickly is better than letting the problem grow.

The issue that I see most commonly is an inconsistency in the enforcement of the policy that reaches a crescendo before they pick one sacrificial lamb, Mr. Lewis said.

You have a right as a business to essentially sort of randomly sit down and pass judgment but the employee can ask where they can find the standards, he said, which is why he says companies should codify their dress codes to get ahead of the issue.

He recommends that companies put dress code policies in their employee handbooks and update them frequently.

Right at the point where you get your first 60-degree day is the reminder for an update to the policy or for a reminder and a reissuance of the policy, Mr. Lewis said.

Policies like these should be looked at annually. They could be easily out of date because fashion and styles change and attitudes subsequently change.

New employees and summer interns should get a copy of the policy before their start date or at least on their first Monday and then meet with someone in the human resources department at the end of their first week to go over the handbook.

Companies without a written dress code usually do choose not to write one because they believe that people will be aware of their surroundings and will conform. Mr. Lewis said thats a mistake.

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DERRY The Derry Workout Club has closed after a sprinkler system burst twice within a span of several weeks and caused extensive damage to the property, according to club representatives.

Following the closure of the club at 35 Manchester Road, the signs have been removed and the building sits vacant.

The system first burst in April and then, after a number of repairs had been made, burst again last month, Ron Tringale, the clubs owner and president, wrote in a May 15 letter to club members.

The club was forced to close after the first incident in April flooded the facility. Crews logged long hours to fix the water damage caused by the sprinkler system, Tringale wrote. They repaired and replaced damaged walls, ceilings and flooring.

Then in mid-May, the same sprinkler system burst again, sending a chemical called glycol gushing throughout the front of the building, Tringale wrote. The chemical spread into the front entry way, sidewalk and parking lot.

Sadly, some of the newly finished drywall and ceiling did become damaged requiring them to be repaired once again, Tringale wrote.

The Workout Club has since closed and members are being allowed to use the Londonderry or Manchester facilities, a club representative said Tuesday. The Londonderry club is at 18 Orchard Drive and the Manchester facility is at 35 Hamel Drive.

As for the clubs future, the Workout Club is considering re-opening at another location in Derry, according to club representatives.

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