A window with drive-through drawer is being installed at the Pea Ridge Water Utilities office to provide better service for customers. There will be a concrete driveway to access the drive-through from North Curtis Avenue with an exit onto Patton Street.
Offices inside will be rearranged and a locked door with keypad and secure entrance will be added, according to Water Utilities superintendent Ken Hayes.
A metal box for a time capsule was created by employees who put in it a small roll of toilet paper "to represent the crazy times of 2020"; sunglasses to represent the style of today; an Arkansas map; a Razorback lanyard; a pay stub; business cards for some of the employees; a late notice; an edition of the Pea Ridge TIMES; firecrackers "that our boss used to pop at random moments to scare us all in the office"; and a $1 bill to represent the great inflation from the effects of covid-19.
Employees signed their names and the date on the wooden frame. They are Kenneth Hayes, superintendent; Angie Jennings, officer manager/ bookkeeper; Kim Thornhill, new service representative; Jasmine Johnson and Deonne Underhill, water clerks; Mike Nida and Christopher Schmidt, utility inspectors; Alex Oaks and Jacob Wagner, field supervisors; Jeremiah Cotton, wastewater treatment plant operator; and Aaron David, Diego Martinez, Samuel Beard, Logan Poole and Matthew Young, water/sewer operators.
Annette Beard/Pea Ridge TIMES
Water Department clerk Jasmine Johnson points out the signatures of employees in the framing of the new drive-through window at the Water Utilities office. For more photographs, go to the PRT gallery at https://tnebc.nwaonline.com/photos/.
Annette Beard/Pea Ridge TIMES
Water Department clerk Jasmine Johnson shows the contents of the time capsule that will be placed inside the walls of the new drive-through window at the Water Utilities office. For more photographs, go to the PRT gallery at https://tnebc.nwaonline.com/photos/.