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DSU football players to do dike-building work
By CHUCK CLEMENT, Staff Reporter 07/07/2009
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A plan to enlist volunteers to build sandbag dikes in the Memorial Park Creek was approved by the Madison City Commission on Monday.

Five football players from the Dakota State University squad have offered their labor to help a contractor perform tuckpointing to rock and mortar walls that line the creek bed in the park. The dikes will divert water from around the work areas where the repairs are needed.

The athletes -- Joe Whealy, Austin Hanten, Wes Heimstra, Jordan Villars and Randall Shannon -- could start working Wednesday. Additional volunteers could also provide some of the labor for the sandbag work.

They will find most of the sandbags already filled and stacked along the creek banks, waiting for their use as dike-building material. The volunteers may need to fill some additional bags.

City officials have scheduled the project to start at 7 a.m. and quit at 4 p.m. with an hour-long noon break. They've estimated that the project could last from Wednesday to Thursday with possibly some final labor taking place on Friday.

During their June 29 meeting, some city commissioners expressed concerns about the proposed additional cost of about $11,800 needed to hire a five-person sandbag crew to perform the dike construction work. The extra expense would have increased the total cost of the 2009 tuckpointing project by about 30 percent.

When the contractor was originally hired earlier this year, city officials thought some city workers might have the available time to perform the sandbag labor. However, Heath VonEye, municipal public works director, told the commissioners at the June meeting that his staff is currently shorthanded and they have full work schedules this summer.


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