Jul 29, 2011 By Steve Ferris heraldstandard.Com 1 min read

All six 40-year-old light standards at Bailey Park in Uniontown will be reinforced after a small crack was recently found in one of them.

Four of the 90-foot, heavy steel standards were relocated and the lights on all six were repaired or replaced as a part of the city’s plan to enlarge the larger ball field and renovate the park.

A small, hairline crack and lose bolts, which secure the standards to concrete foundations, were discovered on one of the standards that was not moved.

While preparing a plan to repair the crack, the city engineer contacted a stadium light standard manufacturer in Chicago, Ill., and learned that the company reinforces the bases of its poles by welding steel gussets between the bolt holes on all the standards they produce, said Uniontown Redevelopment Authority Executive Director Mark Yauger.

So the city instructed the contractor working on the project to weld gussets on all six standards.

“Then we’ll never have to worry about them,” Yauger said.

A full article about the project will appear in Sunday’s paper.