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Got a privy for someone to dig..... - 6/10/2008 6:50:29 AM    ncbred77 Posts: 200 Joined: 3/12/2007 From: Macclesfield, NC Status: offline Ohio man stalls long enough to get new outhouse Posted: Jun. 9 5:17 p.m. BATAVIA, Ohio — An ailing, retired farmer who refused to give up his outhouse after authorities declared it to be a public nuisance finally got a new one. Elbert "Lew" Preston, 79, stood his ground long enough for a nonprofit group to come to his aid and build him a sturdy new outhouse with a waste tank underneath. "There she is," Preston said as he showed off the new outbuilding. "She's a lifesaver." The wooden outhouse, complete with a crescent moon on its door, replaces a 1960s-built version that had run afoul of public health officials in Clermont County, east of Cincinnati. While the old one was over a hole in the ground, this one sits atop a concrete base and a 1,000-gallon tank. "It's too nice and complicated to be an outhouse," Preston said. "I call it a privy." Preston, a former trustee for Washington Township, challenged the board of health for months before seeking help from People Working Cooperatively, a nonprofit that has done thousands of projects for low-income, elderly and disabled residents in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. Past jobs have included replacing roofs and building wheelchair ramps, but this was its first outhouse. Preston lives near a busy shopping area and has 175 acres of potentially lucrative real estate but didn't want to go to the expense and complications of installing a septic system. Preston, who is slowed by diabetes and has colon problems and pacemaker, said he never saw the need to replace the old outhouse - which once was picked up and carried into his garden by a tornado without major damage. He said he has used an outside toilet since settling in Washington Township 40 years ago and likes the privacy of a privy. "When you're in a house, sounds carry," Preston said. "Everybody knows your business." _____________________________ Always looking Mint Cola bottles, and local bottles from North Carolina Post #: 1

RE: Got a privy for someone to dig..... - 6/10/2008 12:55:12 PM    L C   Posts: 1506 Joined: 3/17/2007 From: Ohio Status: offline I live in Washington Township, 25 miles east of Batavia. I might have to get hold of them good old boys and have them come out and put one of those new fangled privies up for me . < Message edited by L C -- 6/10/2008 12:56:00 PM > (in reply to ncbred77) Post #: 2

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