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Volunteers who assisted in the Red Dirt Road waterline project
gathered at Big Fox Community Church Thursday to celebrate the
project's completion. Twenty-five households are expected to benefit
form the effort. (Staff photo/Scotty Wampler.)
Red Dirt Rd. Water Project
Celebrated
by Scotty Wampler
News Editor
Twenty-five households are expected to benefit from a recentlycompleted "self-help" public water project at Red Dirt Road.
Project volunteers gathered Thursday at Big Fox Community Church to
celebrate the completion of the nearly $430,000 effort one state official
dubbed "remarkable."
"I'm just incredibly proud of what you've accomplished," said Jimmy
Wallace, Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
project manager. "I think you guys really ought to pat yourselves on the
back."
Wallace said an extraordinary number of volunteers, 46 total, donated
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time and manpower for the project, which included flagging traffic, helping
install waterline and cooking for the crew, among several other tasks.
"I think that's remarkable, given how small the community is," he said
of the size of the volunteer crew. "It's tremendous what you all have done."
A total of 2,536 man hours were donated to the project by the
volunteers, Wallace said, who added work began around the end of
October.
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