Bridge Builder Born In Spraddle Project

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The Dickenson Star/Cumberland Times Wednesday, October 17, 2001
:~F1Ve of the volunteers
tl~lping with the Big
Big Spraddle ·
Spraddle water project
were inmates in the
Dickenson County jail.
~lected by Capt. Chris
Yafes and Sheriff Bobby
Mainmons,
the
men
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worked long and hard to
move the project along,
qfficials said. One, Chris
sjixton, went a step far~.
tf.'e'r, and built t his stone
l:)riage
to replace one lost
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tp _l looding at the house
tl}af , is the birthplace of
$tii~'grass legend Ralph
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Sfanley, below. Pictured
top row at right are Project
l;ngineer Leman Kendrick,
ervinton Supervisor Scott
Moore and Public Service
i.\uthority
Chairman
Damon Rasnick. Kneeling
are · Self-Help Project
Adn'linistrator
Jimmy
vvauace,
inmate
Joe
Vance, Capt. Chris Yates
~nd Carol Counts. Bridge
builder Chris Sexton
stands below with volunteer. Conny Knoskie.
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Project Facts
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Fourteen homes were hooked
up to public water on Big:'
Spraddle. Residents and volunteers who came to help logged
more than 3,200 hours from July :
21 to Oct. 11, much of it hard dig~­
ging and line laying on steep ' .
slopes in the July and August suri;- '
officials said.
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Project stats show that workers
• Laid 5,220 feet of 4-inch '
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water line; ·
• Laid 440 feet of 2-inch watet,·
line;
• Lines totaled 5,660 feet for
the project;
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• More than 3,600 feet of 3/4
inch service line was laid t<~>
homes;
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• Volunteer crew totaled 35, 1
with 11 businesses and individuals.' .
making donations.
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Bridge Builder Born
In Spraddle Project
Big Spraddle Celebrates
~Big Day' In Community
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By IDA HOLYFIELD
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Dickenson Star Editor
Phillips, J.J. Phillips, Crystal Phillips
and Anthony Phillips;
Kristi Mullins, Courtney Mullins,
Tiffany Mullins and Leman
Kendrick, project engineer.
Yates;
Conny and Matie Knoskie, Ruby
Knoskie, Daniah Knoskie, Joe Greer,
May Smith, Dickenson County
Public Service Authority Executive
Director Ron Phillips, Paulette
Phillips, Mary Morgan Phillips, John
Everybody got the work done and
E-mail writer at
p.obody wants to hog the credit up on
iholyfield@ coalfield. com..
Big Spraddle, where a state self-help
f>roject has spigots dispensing
~pavkling water to residents who,
iwo years ago, didn't even have a
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prayer of getting public water.
! It took a lot of innovation, deterWE would likE TO ThANk EACh ANd EVERY ONE of you who pARTicipATEd iN ~
huniltton, sweat and help from a
t.l
ThE bENEfiT show foR GREq TURNER's fAMily. SpECh1~ nli\Nks TO TkE ORtqAN" lj
wide variety of sources to get the job
, . iZERS, TO ThE SiNqERS ANd MUSiciANS, TO ThOSE who pREpAREd ANO OONAT• •
~on~, residents say, and Saturday's t.l Ed ThE food, foR TkE usE of ThE SANdlick ELEMENTARY sckool cAfETERiA ANd lj
l;overed dish celebration marked , . TO All wko ATTENdEd ANd foR All YOUR dONATiONS of lOVE. WE CAN NEVER •
~hat will remain a red-letter day for ll ThANk you ENOuqh foR YOUR lOVE ANd SUppORT duRiNq ThE SiCkNESS ANd lj
ihe community.
irl loss a~ oJ\lll' ~RFdous kusbANd ANd fATiiER. You will AlwAys kold A spEciAl •
: the folks who helped make the llr,l plACE IN OUR IJEARTS.
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:project happen should be Temem- rJ
OuR dEEP APPRECiATiON ANd lovE ~ KATIIy, ARoN & GARON •
ber~d by future generations of the
fOnpnunity, officials said.
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"This project would have cost
$25'2,400 if it had been contracted
:Out,::but with the work the residents
pf B'ig Spraddle did, the job got done
~head of time and a little under
lmdget. The state put in $120,000
:and the self-help contribution ended
~1p estimated at $122,000," Jimmy
Wallace, administrator of the
!Virginia Self-Help Water Project
~rogr~ for the Vtrginia Department
!Jf Housing and Community
Development said.
: On the community's "honor roll"
iJ~ 'hard working citizens and the
~fficials who supported them are
:Project Spark Plug James Boyd,
:.;pokesman Bill Knoskie, Carol
~ounts, Barbara Counts and Clinton
!Counts;
• ... ' Jack Rose, Edith Rose, Damon
:Rasnick, Jackie White, Amy White,
-Dustin White, Allen Hill, Sheena
Attornev at Law
}lui Michael Hill, Rhonda Hill,
Clintwood, Virginia 24228
::M.iGhael Hill Jr. and Lillian Hill;
~· ._ R~na Boyd, James Boyd, Jeffery
(276) 926-8580
) 3oyd, Dylan Boyd, Chris Sexton,
~Tommy Austin, Becky Austin,
Over 20 Years Experience
William Austin, Bethany Austin,
: ~arY. White, Junior White, Joe
to Serve Your Legal Needs
:vance and Dickenson County
Sheriff's Department Capt Chris
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"This old house is where Ralph
Stanley was born. This house was on
TNN (The Nashville Network) not
long ago. He brought the film crews
up here and they filmed it, but then
the floods washed out the road and
the bridge to it," Conny Knoskie told
those who went to inspect the handiwork of amateur stone mason Chris
Sexton.
Sexton, one of five inmates from
the Dickenson County Jail who
helped with the Big Spraddle project, did a fantastic job on the bridge,
Knoskie said.
'~I wish you could have seen the
size of some of the rock that boy
hauled up out of the creek bed. I bet
the biggest one - it was real thick
and several feet long - I bet that
thing weighed 400 pounds. I don't
know how he drug it up there."
The finished bridge is 12 feet
wide and spans the creek bed, with a
message written in the concrete
proudly proclaiming the builder's
accomplishment. The bridge was
started Sept. 11 and finished Oct 1.
"Bobby
(Sheriff
Bobby
Hammons) asked me if I wanted to
help the people up here, and I'm glad
I did," Sexton said. "I really enjoyed
working with ~hese people."
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