Some took to it quickly. Others had to be coaxed and one still has to be convinced there is nothing to fear.
Christina Coker watched with satisfaction as a C.D. Williams crane lifted the first of two parts of a dehumidifier system from a tractor-trailer rig, equipment that will get operations at the Roanoke Rapids Aquatic Center she oversees back to normal.
For the last couple of weeks of this month I had a beard.
The city now has a second recycling container at the Roanoke Rapids Aquatic Center located at 500 East 6th Street.
Roanoke Rapids High School swim team coach Patrick Quast fretted there would be no season this year. So did members of his team as city council tried to find money to buy a new dehumidifier for the Aquatic Center.
Roanoke Rapids City Manager Joseph Scherer expects the question of funding for a new dehumidifier at the Aquatic Center to be put back on the table for discussion at council's next meeting.
I find it extremely disturbing that, as of 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening, the closing of the Aquatic Center was a "possibility" and as of Thursday morning, it was a done deal with the announcement made that, as of Monday, October 13, 2014, the doors would be closed.
The closing of the Roanoke Rapids Aquatic Center over the remainder of the fall and winter looms as a possibility after city council this evening agreed to pull discussion of dehumidifier funding from its agenda.
The cost to replace a broken dehumidifier at the Roanoke Rapids Aquatic Center is between $126,000 and $132,000, a consulting engineer told city council this evening.
In September of 1989, Roanoke Rapids voters entrusted the city to build and maintain an aquatic center with the passage of a $1.5 million recreation bond referendum.
