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Beltsville, MD (PRWEB) July 10, 2014

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COLUMBIA A $400,000 grant will help pay for remediation and content replacement of some 600,000 books and materials presumed to be damaged by a mold outbreak in October, according to a news release from MU Libraries.

The grant comes from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The funding began July 1 and will continue for a year.

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"It's wonderful that we received the grant," Jim Cogswell, director of MU Libraries, said Thursday. "It's just been the greatest sort of news."

Also, MU is partnering with Washington University and Missouri State University to acquire replacement documents of some of the lost texts.

In addition to the grant, as much as $600,000 will be taken from the MU Libraries' self-insurance fund to help pay for the damage.

Some of the money will be used to retrieve and prepare materials from Missouri State and Washington University to be shared with MU Libraries as needed.

In addition, funding will help MU Libraries review the availability of needed replacements from library and service organizations.

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Perforated sewer pipe -- usually made of PVC in modern systems -- is embedded in gravel in an underground trench below the level of the septic tank. Your septic tank is the pretreatment part of your septic system, where bacteria digest the septic solids. The tank releases partially processed liquids to flow down a closed pipe to the septic field, or leach field. While the septic field is at a lower elevation than the tank, the field and the pipe inside it must be level. Permitting authorities in your county or city must sign off on your plans before you can install a septic system, and the plan for the project will show the elevation and layout of the trenches for the perforated pipe.

Dig out the soil in trenches of the depth, width and configuration required on your approved plan. Every plan is specific to the property where it will be built and is dependent of the size, shape, natural slope and soil composition of the property, as well as the speed at which water percolates through the soil and the size of the home the system serves. The floors of the trenches should be as close to level as possible so that wastewater distributes evenly throughout the system. Use a backhoe or similar digging equipment for this job.

Put 6 to 12 inches of gravel in the bottom of the trench. Choose gravel that is larger in diameter than the holes in the perforated pipe. Your municipality may have a specific requirement for the type of gravel you must use and the depth of gravel the perforated pipe must sit on.

Lay out the perforated pipe pieces on top of the gravel with the majority of the holes pointed downward and connect them with PVC self-priming glue. The pipe sections are made with coupling flanges on one end of each pipe, so the next pipe in line will slide inside of the one before. Smear PVC glue on the inside of the female flange and outside of the male end and slide them together quickly, before the glue has a chance to dry; make sure that the perforation holes are all pointed the same way. Cap any terminal ends of the pipes with glued PVC caps. Not all leach field plans have terminal ends on the pipes.

Place a level on the long runs of PVC and adjust the levelness of the pipe by wiggling and pushing high portions against the gravel until the bubble is in the middle of of the glass on the level. You can add gravel under stretches of pipe that are too low. You can also use a transit level or laser level to situate your pipes and some municipalities actually require that you do so.

Glue the incoming ends of the perforated pipe into the couplings on the nonperforated PVC pipe coming out of the system distribution box. A distribution box ensures that the wastewater distributes evenly into multiple runs of perforated pipe.

Place approximately 6 inches of gravel over the pipe, using care to avoid disturbing the pipe placement. Your municipality may require an inspection before you do this.

Cover the gravel with a single layer of geo-textile fabric to help keep soil from infiltrating the gravel, and fill the trench the rest of the way with soil.

Billie Jo Jannen is a politics and lifestyle columnist in rural San Diego County and a senior copy editor for Demand Media. Her writing and editing career spans 23 years, and she specializes in border and environmental affairs. Jannen's eclectic education includes engineering and horticulture, and she represents the Rural Economic Action League in regional economic development planning.

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RIDGWAY -- Every beginning has a foundation, and the building of a new Catholic Church to replace one destroyed in the Leap Day Tornado two years ago has its.

The foundation is going reasonably well, said the Rev. Steven Beatty. So far so good.

The new church, being built to replace the St. Joseph Catholic Church lost to the deadly tornado, is being built on the site of the former house of worship.

Amid the rubble and shards of glass, only a marble altar and its foundation survived. Some bells were also salvaged. Plans are to use the same altar and bells in the new, 10,000-square-foot church. The former foundation will be used as a place to pray, Beatty said.

Itll be one of many places to pray. Well all know those are the stones from the foundation of the old altar, he said.

The new church will also feature a 40-foot ceiling and 150-foot high steeple, he said. It is expected to seat slightly more than 400 people, a little larger than the former church.

In the fall of 2012, Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville announced the formation of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks Parish, in Ridgway. The new church is named in honor of St. Kateri, the first North American saint who was canonized in October 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI.

The new parish includes St. Joseph in Equality, St. Patrick in the Pond Settlement and Immaculate Conception in Shawneetown. Beatty, named parish administrator, said each of the chapels will remain in use.

Construction on the roughly $6 million church started about four weeks ago and plans are to complete it by May or June next year, Beatty said.

About half the cost of construction is being paid through insurance; much of the rest has come from local and national donations, he said.

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ELLWOOD CITY St. Elias Church is celebrating its 100th anniversary July 19 and 20. The committee has planned a full weekend, beginning with a light supper and greeting Archbishop Nathaniel Popp from Michigan, who oversees more than 100 parishes in North America.

The ceremony for the opening includes presenting the archbishop with bread and salt, the traditional gift to important and respected guests, and girls will present him with flowers. The archbishop will preside over the events of the weekend.

The official date of the anniversary is Feb. 1, but the anniversary is being celebrated now because the feast day of St. Elias is celebrated annually on July 20.

The Rev. John Schmidt, who has been pastor at St. Elias for eight years, said the event is to give glory to God for 100 years of worship in the church.

Juliana Thetford, the parish council secretary and a cantor, and Docia Jinar Jacobs, president of the parish committee, are co-chairing the event. Jacobs is the granddaughter of George and Mary Vintile Jinar, founding members of the church.

So many of the members were named George and Mary. I had aunt Marys, cousin Marys, Jacobs said. I love my church. I feel at home any time I walk in, whether there are a lot of people or just a few. I love my church.

Today, the church has about 50 members. Some are descendants of the founders, some are new Romanian immigrants, and some are of Macedonian, Russian, Greek and Middle Eastern descent, as well as converts to the faith from western European backgrounds.

We have evolved into a little melting pot, we are pan-ethnic, Schmidt said. When we do the responses to the liturgy Lord, have mercy at the Easter service, we do it in Russian, Greek, Romanian, Arabic and sometimes other languages including Italian. We stress inclusiveness.

Jacobs said that until 20 years ago, the minutes of the church council meetings were in Romanian, and former secretary Adrian Draghiciu, who lives in Cranberry, translated them into English.

Draghiciu wrote a short history of the church for the anniversary.

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AMERICUS Many hands make light work, according to traditional wisdom, and in the case of the construction site at Eastview Baptist Church, Ga. Highway 27 East, Americus, it appeared to be correct recently.

Wayne Gosa, a church member and chairman of the building project, said 86 volunteers arrived on site in the second phase of the new church complex going up across the street from the Americus Times-Recorders former offices. The recent volunteers, from Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina and Michigan, made up the volunteer brick-laying team, led by Fred Dennis of Americus.

The volunteer team consisted of men and women and young men and young men, and even some seniors. Some were master masons and other did specialty jobs. There were also cooks preparing meals for the workers.

Due to the sweltering temperatures around 90 degrees last week, a water team kept the volunteers hydrated throughout their long work days.

The volunteers stayed at the Georgia National Guard Armory on Ga. Highway 30, at Friendship Baptist Camp, further out on Highway 30 and a few stayed in local motels.

Due to the magnitude of the job, they were unable to complete all at this time, but part of the team will return and complete the job, Gosa said.

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