Mold shuts down PSL's Ravenswood Recreation Center

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Mold shuts down PSL's Ravenswood Recreation Center

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Workers at Ravenswood Recreation Center are trying to reschedule

activities at the city's other two recreation centers.

By Hillary Copsey

staff writer

September 9, 2005

Fort Pierce,FL

PORT ST. LUCIE — Mold is shutting the doors of the Ravenswood

Recreation Center indefinitely.

Samples taken this week by Environment, Safety and Health, of Hobe

Sound, show higher-than-normal levels of mold in the center at 400

S.W. Ravenswood Lane, Parks and Recreation Director Chuck Proulx

said Thursday.

Proulx ordered the samples taken after an employee complained last

week of odor in the building.

Late last year, mold left by hurricanes Frances and Jeanne was

cleaned from employee offices at Ravenswood.

Those offices still are mold-free, but Proulx said mold is growing

in the walls of the auditorium, hallways, restroom and kitchen.

" We don't know how it got there, " Proulx said, adding he did not

know of any illnesses or odors reported before last week.

Many activity and after-school groups meet every day at Ravenswood

Center. Workers are trying to reschedule those activities at the

city's other two recreation centers and will call groups as they

find space, Proulx said.

Because space is limited at the Community Center on Airoso Boulevard

and Minsky Gymnasium on Darwin Boulevard, Proulx said the city might

have to rent private space to accommodate Ravenswood groups while

the center's mold-ridden areas are gutted and cleaned.

As Ravenswood's doors shut Thursday, Proulx did not know how long

the cleanup would take or how much it would cost.

- hillary.copsey@...

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" Many activity and after-school groups meet every day at Ravenswood

Center. "

Let me guess, Lori Denig and those stay-at-home moms from Mariposa

have struck again?

8:29:58 a.m. on September 9, 2005

TOM ANDERSON | #

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> " We don't know how it got there, " Proulx said...

Having lived through this crazy mold experience...

It amazes me how difficult it is for people to make the connection

that mold spores are airborn and can travel from room to room, or

building to building, riding on a breeze, through an AC vent,

clinging to people's hair, stuck in their clothing, on a piece of

paper, etc.

Yet, nobody will question as truth that the yellow stuff blooming in

a tree 100 yards away will cause them to sneeze, or that fumes from

a toxic chemical spill can force the evacuation of a block, a

neighborhood, or a city.

Alas, I didn't understand the mold experience either, until I

experienced it myself firsthand, and subsequently read others'

experiences which were eerily similar to mine.

Now that I think about it, it all makes perfect sense. But the

general concensus is still that were crazy! That it's not possible.

We have a culture where nobody uses their brain, and are too lazy to

think things through for themselves to a reasonable/rational

conclusion. We just read/hear what we are fed by the

media/government/fill-in-the-blank, and accept it as fact, because

it's easier. (Geez, I'm becoming my grandpa! )

Jules