Frank McGee (second from left) assisted team members as they drilled in reinforcements

The smell and sound of sawdust and power tools greets those visiting a Fishers of Men worksite.

For the last four years, the Sunday school class from P.G. Baptist Church has made it their mission to help those in need by constructing wheelchair ramps and porches for the disabled and elderly.

Since January of this year, the group has completed eight different projects.

Weve built six ramps and two porches, said group leader Tommy Hendley. We work at least one day a week on projects.

The Fishers of Men Sunday school class has an ever-growing list of projects, so, because of this, schedules are made out in advance.

We usually have lists made up three weeks out, Hendley stated. We try to do these projects on a need basis. If someone is really sick or having a hard time getting in and out, we try to help them first.

Building a handicap ramp has become a usual thing for the group of men.

We can build a ramp in a day, said Hendley. Sometimes people have the money to buy the materials, sometimes the housing coalition helps and then some of the projects we pay for ourselves.

Just last week, the group used their own funds to build a $700 handicap ramp for an individual in McDowell.

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Residents of the Bishops Landing subdivision off Route 139 can see the tombstones from their back porches.

From some of the townhouses in the complex, the cemetery cant be more than 40 or 50 feet away.

So when bacterial contamination started to show up in the developments wells, people started to, as one town official put it, put two and two together.

The implication is gruesome, but state and local officials wont say directly that the cemetery is responsible for the contamination.

But whats certain is that the water in the wells is no good, and Bishops Landing residents will be footing the bill for the fix.

The 23-unit complex had been using a four-well water system for more than 20 years that was never registered with the state, a Department of Environmental Protection spokesman said last week.

The system is too close to, in addition to the graveyard, Route 139 and the paved access road to the cemetery all sources of potential groundwater contamination, officials say.

Health Agent Sandra Gabriel said she got a call from state Department of Environmental Protection in July of 2010 saying that E.coli bacteria had been found in the water.

There have been quite a number (of tests) with total coliform bacteria in the water, said Ed Coletta of the DEP.

Gabriel went to the development to advise residents to boil water before drinking it. She said the Board of Health has been working closely with the neighbors.

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BUILDING PERMITS

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Building construction permits over $10,000 in value that were approved in Boulder between Feb. 20 and Feb. 26, 2012. Listed below are: the case number; address; total project valuation; owner name; contractor (if applicable); and description.

PMT2012-00017; 2015 Bluebell Ave.; $150,612.38; Judith Volc; Pine Construction Co.; Second story addition of 804 square feet (conditioned), significant remodel on main level plus main level addition at location of demolished existing attached garage, and new attached garage. 364 square feet in decks and porches.

PMT2012-00432; 2119 Mapleton Ave.; $140,000; Judy and Eli Godec; Remodel of master bedroom and addition of 57 square feet on second floor of existing single-family detached home. Remodel of main floor kitchen and breakfast area and half bath. Repair of foundation, increase of basement ceiling height and basement finish.

PMT2012-00675; 3326 Loyola Court; $11,450; Allison McComiskey; Napp Landscape Service Inc.; Replacement of existing front yard deck with 302-square-foot deck, approximately 74 inches above grade.

PMT2012-00355; 800 Arapahoe Ave.; $185,000; Historic Boulder; Permeation grouting along sides and below foundation walls, installation of mechanical ties at cracks in masonry walls including repair or replacement of missing brick, and redirection of roof drainage and surface water to include back filling and site grading; all as detailed on landmark alteration certificate application dated Dec. 30, 2012. Owner/contractor.

PMT2012-00640; 3185 Endicott Drive; Eric Koehler and Holly Burton; Lookout -- The Renovation Company; Basement finish of 465 square feet to create a family room (with egress), storage closet, finished storage area (wall must be less than 7 inches apart), full bathroom and mechanical room.

PMT2011-04046; 2210 Howard Place; $18,473.85; John and Susan Fontaine; Renew Construction LLC; Addition of 183-square-foot greenhouse at rear of single-family residence. Scope of work includes associated electrical and mechanical.

PMT2012-00723; 4120 S. Hampton Circle; $40,424.03; John and Laurel Hickman; Hickman Construction Inc.; Partial basement finish of 491 square feet including a rec. room and full bath.

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Residents of the Bishops Landing subdivision off Route 139 can see the tombstones from their back porches.

From some of the townhouses in the complex, the cemetery cant be more than 40 or 50 feet away.

So when bacterial contamination started to show up in the developments wells, people started to, as one town official put it, put two and two together.

The implication is gruesome, but state and local officials wont say directly that the cemetery is responsible for the contamination.

But whats certain is that the water in the wells is no good, and Bishops Landing residents will be footing the bill for the fix.

The 23-unit complex had been using a four-well water system for more than 20 years that was never registered with the state, a Department of Environmental Protection spokesman said last week.

The system is too close to, in addition to the graveyard, Route 139 and the paved access road to the cemetery all sources of potential groundwater contamination, officials say.

Health Agent Sandra Gabriel said she got a call from state Department of Environmental Protection in July of 2010 saying that E.coli bacteria had been found in the water.

There have been quite a number (of tests) with total coliform bacteria in the water, said Ed Coletta of the DEP.

Gabriel went to the development to advise residents to boil water before drinking it. She said the Board of Health has been working closely with the neighbors.

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Wells may have contaminated subdivision’s water

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WIVB) - The strong wind gusts have caused plenty of damage around western New York.

Look up as you drive the 198 west toward the 190 interchange, and you'll notice a very big hole in the sky. Fierce winds tore down a billboard and sent it smashing onto a walking path Saturday morning. By good fortune, no one was around.

The owner of a Niagara Falls home is less fortunate. Winds toppled a 40-foot tree onto the house, taking out half the porch and ripping the tree's substantial roots right out of the yard. The caller who alerted our newsroom to the damage told us the only way to get around the porch is by using a ladder. A neighbor's house, she said, also took a hit.

>> See more photos of storm damage caused by high winds from around western New York here

Niagara Falls Arborist Paul Dickinson said, "We've got a payloader, some empty tandems. We'll start trying to remove it, away from the house, and remove the wood. Probably a couple hours, for this one."

Highway and utility workers across western New York spent dozens of man-hours clearing roads, hauling away tree limbs, and repairing downed power lines.

"We started at five o'clock this morning; [that's when] we got the first call. Our first priority is to open up all the streets for emergency vehicles. We just took a couple of limbs off the top of cars, so people could get out of the driveway," explained Dickinson.

According to the National Weather Service, the strongest gust to hit the region since the winds' overnight onset clocked in at 69 miles-per-hour. It hit the Niagara Falls International Airport just after 4 a.m.

Lake Erie continues to churn and splash with the wind, prompting a lakeshore flood advisory through the evening hours on Saturday. You can get all the latest weather alerts here.

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02-03-2012 08:02 For some Algarve magic a visit to Porches Pottery is an absolute must. The story, the artists and of course the pottery, are timeless and elegant, and magically blend the past and the present. A short history lesson: The Algarve, and Porches in particular, had a thriving local pottery industry in the past. However by the 1960's , demand had dropped, age-old skills were being lost and a centuries old Portuguese tradition was on its way to extinction. Irish artist Patrick Swift and his Portuguese counterpart, Lima de Freitas, joined forces to try to prevent this from happening. They founded the Olaria Algarve -- Porches Pottery -- in 1968, and with large doses of creativity and tenacity, created an array of distinctive pottery and a successful business, ensuring the survival of the potters craft. http://www.MyDestination.com/Algarve

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FRONT PORCH BLING: Front porches can sometimes get overlooked or become neglected because so many folks come home and enter their houses through garages or sidedoors. Take a look, if your front porch needs a little love, we've found it for you.

BUILT OF STEEL: Love this house Bob and Kim Zielinski built in Pittsburgh. But more so, I'm also impressed with people who stick to it even when the "experts" say it can't be done. "WHEN Bob Zielinski, a former marine who owns a glass manufacturing company here, and his wife, Kim, showed contractors plans for the house they wanted to build -- a 53-foot-long glass-and-steel wedge cantilevered over their factory -- the contractors said they couldn't do it. You'd have to get guys who build bridges and do highway work to create the support system for something like that, they said. So, that's exactly what the Zielinskis did. It took three years to build, but the Emerald Art Glass House (named after the Zielinskis' company, Emerald Art Glass) now hovers above the factory in the South Side neighborhood, overlooking the Monongahela River, railway line and bridges." DON'T FOCUS ON ONE THING: This is a wonderful lesson that nearly every designer teaches or has experienced with a client and everyone homeowner going through even just a small update needs to learn: You can't judge one item in isolation. INEXPENSIVE BATHROOM UPDATE: This bathroom update is full of interesting ideas and ways to improve a space without spending it all. I'm not a huge fan of the hand-held mirrors hung randomly, but the idea is one that could morph to fit your taste. The biggest thing here is the change in paint color. I'm pretty sure the cabinets were painted, not replaced. What a difference.

-- Bridget A. Otto

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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- It's an old-house neighborhood, all right. There are long porches, American flags waving in the breeze and historical markers just below the front doors.

There are concrete outbuildings in the backyards, tulip poplars more than 100 years old in the front yards and bicyclists riding down the quiet streets.

Maybe it's not the best-known of all the old-house neighborhoods in Huntsville. But Merrimack Mill Village is the only one in town cited by "This Old House" on its recent list of the best old-house neighborhoods in the South.

Merrimack Mill Village joined old-house neighborhoods in St. Petersburg, Fla., suburban Atlanta and Memphis, among other places, on the list by "This Old House."

"A lot of people compare us to Five Points," said Jim Marek, president of the Merrimack Mill Village Organization. "They say we'll be the next Five Points."

Those people have good reasons. There's a revitalization of historic homes, many of them duplexes, that's reminiscent of what happened in Five Points in the 1990s and beyond.

There are strong signs of renovation on Clopton Street, Alpine Street and Triana Boulevard, among other places.

On Bradley Street, there's a tidy home with a new fence. Farther north, on North Broad Place, there's another renovated house with a new fence about to be installed.

On the corner of Clopton Street and Drake Avenue, Steven Gaffin and his wife, Mary Lee, are renovating another of the houses that was built in 1923.

Gaffin is a 26-year-old engineer with a long-time enthusiasm for old houses. His wife is an archeologist for Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research.

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PITTSBURG, Kan. — Jack Overman, 93, has spent his life fishing and camping at Roaring River State Park.

He can describe the primitive screened-in sleeping porches, long since torn down.

“They were on stilts all in a row, on the west side of the river right next to Superintendent (Hugh) Brixey’s house,” Overman said.

He can describe early camping.

“We didn’t have designated campgrounds, but just pulled our old 1930 Dodge right up to the banks, where the playground and picnic tables are now,” he said. “You could roll out of bed in the morning and just start fishing.”

The park officially opened in 1932. Overman, who was born in 1919, has been there since the beginning.

He can recall his summers as a young boy watching Civilian Conservation Corps crews build the iconic lodge and hatchery, both of which still stand.

His memories aren’t surprising, since he’s fished there every summer since 1931.

That’s 80 summers — some years he spent as many as 65 days at Roaring River — of casting flies and visiting the hatchery and making camp within a stone’s throw of the baffles that earned the river its name. He and his wife even spent their honeymoon in the park.

Although the sleeping porches are gone, a lake has been built and destroyed, and anglers arrive via four-wheel-drive SUVs today, the park is a place where time stands still, Overman said.

Those anglers still vie for the best position at the park office in order to get the coveted “0001” trout tag on opening day of the season.

Overman lucked out and got one on March 1, 2007 — and counts it as one of his prized possessions.

“I had an ‘in’,” he grinned as he showed it off. “I was the one who got to shoot the gun on Opening Day that year, and they gave it to me.”

Today, as can be seen in photos dating to the early 1930s, children still pose for photographs with stringers full of fish.

Overman used to pose for such photos himself, on fishing trips with his father, John, mother, Jessie, and little brother Don.

“Except at that time, there was no limit, and then I think they made the limit 10,” he said. Today, it’s four.

“Dad and I would haul home 100 fish after two-week trips, and store them in the ice plant over on Sixth Street.”

In later decades, Overman would snap photos of his own two children, Sandy Hale and Steve Overman, taken on countless fishing trips he and his late wife, Doris, took with them.

And, today, thousands of campers and anglers still pour into the park for the catch-and-keep season, which begins Thursday.

“When we entered the park for the first time, it was just an old gravel road that came in behind the hatchery from the north,” Overman recalled. “Highway 112 hadn’t been built yet.”

There were just five baffles then, terminating in a man-made lake near today’s cleaning station.

When his family said goodbye to the park for another year, they left driving backward as all visitors did — it’s the only way cars of that day could garner enough power to get up the steep hill that led in and out of the park.

Today, Overman worries about the future of the park because of a declining aqueduct and the possibility of pollution, and has been active in signing petitions to prevent poultry farms from setting up shop too close to the park.

Despite having been to every national park in the United States, from the Grand Tetons to Yellowstone to Glacier, he maintains his favorite spot on Earth is at Roaring River State Park.

“I could sit there and look at that mountain ... walk that stream, for hours and hours and hours. It has always been, and remains today, the most peaceful place in the world,” he said.

Enough to make it his final resting place?

“Sure,” he said. “That’s my favorite place.”

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