Rainfall leads to road closures
Hi Y’all,
As the first day of autumn is almost here, our calendars will begin filling up. Lanark will start this season with clean beach accesses, thanks to the eight volunteers who were out on the beach early Saturday morning. Great news! The beach and water access were cleaner with less trash and debris this year. The Coastal Clean Up is a yearly event; watch out for the announcement next year and join the crew.
The Lanark Village Boat Club pancake breakfast was great as usual, with a good attendance. We were pleased to have Sheriff A.J. Smith and his beautiful wife Helen join us for breakfast.
With so much rain we have had a part of the Lanark area suffer from flooding. Off Oak Street, a couple of roads, Kentucky for one, had to be closed because of flooding. It is so bad that some residents must use boats to reach their homes. Residents are using commercial pumps to pump out thousands of gallons of rainwater. Within the last few years, this area has flooded twice.
According to what I have learned, there is a small lake or pond on elevated property behind this flooding area which belongs to The St. Joe Company. This water source is spilling over and running down into these residential properties. Commissioner Cheryl Sanders is working with all the appropriate government and St. Joe Company engineers to devise a solution to help eliminate this unfortunate occurrence.
Sanders is also helping Lanark with the village drainage problem that causes severe flooding in Gene Sewell Park, which is a county park.
I will go forward a bit as there will be so much going on in October. The weekly events will stay the same. The monthly events will include the Lanark Village Association starting the membership meetings every first Monday of the month, in Chillas Hall at 6:30 p.m.; and the Lanark Village Golf Club will start the membership meetings the second Thursday of the month, in the Lanark Village Boat Club building at 5 p.m. ET
American Legion Post 82 in Lanark will have an Octoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 19. with time to be announced. On Saturday, Oct. 26, they will have a “Scaryaoke” Halloween party. The Lanark Village Golf Club and The Village Idiot Group will sponsor a “Trunk or Treat” for the kids at 11 a.m. The golf club will have a Halloween Golf Cart Parade at 4:30 p.m.
The village association will sponsor a “Civic Meeting” on Monday, Oct. 21 in Chillas Hall at 6:30 p.m. Many of our county leaders have been invited to inform the public and answer some questions. This meeting will be of interest to all in the Lanark area.
On Sunday, Oct. 27 there will be a covered dish lunch at Chillas Hall starting at 1 p.m. to celebrate the presentation of a mural created by Joan Matey, with the assistance of artist Barbara Ryan, dedicated to Lanark Village’s first queen, Gene Sewell, and depicting the many organizations and interests of Lanark. More information in the weeks to come.
On Thursday, Oct. 31 the Lanark Village Association will sponsor a Halloween Party in Chillas Hall. More information to come.
Love Lanark!
Pat Sewell Funderburk is the Times Lanark News columnist. Be sure to send news and society items about Lanark Village life to her at p.funderburk@yahoo.com.
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