Fence Book

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Krysta Dorr drives a different route to work these days, six months after finding a woman's crumpled body on an isolated road beneath the span locals call "suicide bridge."

"I still have nightmares, dreaming someone is falling on top of me," says Dorr, 21, a waitress at the Cold Spring Tavern just a few hundred feet from where Stagecoach Road passes beneath the Cold Spring Canyon Bridge. "I will not drive down that way again."

With child drownings in the Valley on pace to meet or exceed last year's total, water-safety advocates are worried that the recession may be taking a toll on efforts to keep children safe.

So far this year, nine children younger than 12 have drowned in Maricopa County. The number of drownings didn't reach that number last year until the end of July. There have been 72 other water-related incidents involving children this year, compared with 62 by the end of July 2008.

New bridge fence - expanded metalIt won't be known as the "Suicide Bridge" anymore.

City officials say people won't be able to scale a new, much-debated fence that soon will be installed on the All-America Bridge (Y-Bridge.)

The fence, which when combined with a concrete wall will stand at 10 feet, will be made of steel, with small diamond-shaped openings too small for climbing.

Thirty volunteers and Chandler fire fighters will walk door-to-door in an older downtown neighborhood Saturday seeking qualified applicants to receive a donated pool fence or free pool fence repairs.

The effort is part of the Adopt-a-Pool-Fence program sponsored by Valley of the Sun United Way, United Phoenix Firefighters L493, Chandler Regional Medical Center, and The FireStar Fund in association with the Chandler Fire Department.

The city of Watertown will need to spend $16,700 to fix the marble fence outside Flower Memorial Library, City Manager Mary M. Corriveau said.

Library officials had scheduled to have minor repairs done to the wall this summer, but their plans were accelerated when a Department of Public Works employee drove a piece of machinery into the relic.

The state and federal government are collaborating on a project to protect native plants and animals at Oahu's Kaena Point. Plans call for a six foot high mesh fence to be built from one side to the other.

The mesh will be small enough to keep rats and mice, which eat seabirds and plants, out of the protected area.

At Austin Park there are three baseball fields, but only one of them has enough fencing to keep most players and game attendants safe.

To correct what some see as a safety hazard, Skaneateles Rotary Club members attended Thursday night’s town board meeting seeking approval to make headway on adding fencing to Sims Field.

“This is all that’s here, this backstop,” rotary member Peter Adams said to the board. “Our proposal would be to duplicate the north field. It’s where we want to be in terms of safety.”

Working on the backstop at Les Eva Field at Memorial Park, Wednesday are from left, Luis Ruiz, Jorse Castro and Francisco Roa.Replacement of the backstop and outfield fence has begun at Les Eva Field, the popular ballpark at Memorial Park in Grass Valley, and work is expected to be done April 14.

The fencing replacement is part of a two-pronged project that also will bring new picnic grounds to the park just beyond the outfield fence, city Recreation and Facilities Manager Sandy Jacobson said Wednesday.

The $36,000 project will not delay the western Nevada County Recreation Services softball season, as games will be played elsewhere for the first two weeks of the season, Jacobson said.

Work is being done by low bidder Arrow Fence of Rocklin.

GREENVILLE — The Outagamie County Regional Airport will receive $736,843 in state and federal funds to replace a perimeter fence.

The state is providing $18,422 with Outagamie County matching that amount. The Federal Aviation Administration is providing about $700,000.

Work is expect to start in the spring and should be finished by the summer.

The state Department of Transportation said the new fence will improve security at the airport and protect the wildlife near the airport.