It‘s no surprise that water towers store water, but it‘s less well known that they also store energy. The golf Ball in Seven Lakes is a functioning system which helps to provide the 500,000 gallons of daily water used by Seven Lakes residents. The Golf Ball holds 150,000 gallons and there are two tanks located on the North and West side for pumping. The whole process starts at the water treatment plant. After the water is treated, electronically powered mechanical pumps send it through pipes, either to serve an immediate need (think showers, dishwashers and water sprinklers) or to a…
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Heard Round’ Town A local entrepreneur and partner of a Venture Capital group based in Ft. Lauderdale, FL is exploring an opportunity to open a Captain D’s Fast Food Fish Franchise now known as a QSR, (Quick Service Restaurant) on Highway #211, North of McDonalds. Previously, the group spoke to a Long John Silver’s representative, but the Seven Lakes area did not meet the Franchisors criteria for population or traffic counts. The group is now considering a Captain D’s Seafood Express restaurant. The new “Express” version of the restaurant offers drive thru and walk up windows with limited seating…
Heard On The Street Will This Become A Familiar Sight In Seven Lakes? There is a move to bring a Food Truck Roundup to a space on Seven Lakes Drive on weekends. Similar to weekend events in small towns throughout California “the Roundup“ would include a wide selecion from local food trucks offering fresh prepared food from Crab Cakes, BBQ, Burgers, Tacos and Breakfast fare to Sno Cones. To give back to the community plans are in the works whereby the food trucks would donate 5-10% of their sales to local funding for a variety of projects from road repair to…
Only 2 Hours Down The Road…Your Adventure Begins! If you want to have a blast of adrenaline, visit the Whitewater Center in Charlotte. Here they offer everything but skydiving: whitewater rafting, zip lines, kayaking, rock climbing (over a swimming pool for beginners), mountain biking, jumps and, what? ice skating beginning in November. The Upper Pond converts every November into 17,000 sq. ft. of ice including an ice trail and free skate area. Centered in the converted pond is an on-ice Airstream serving hot and cold beverages. Raft on the world’s largest manmade whitewater river. Experience class II-IV whitewater with a…
2021 Volunteer Citizen Of The Year The Seven Lakes News takes great pleasure in announcing their recipient of Citizen Of The Year, for 2021, Sam Ransdell. Each year, our community newspaper shines a light on the people in Seven Lakes that inspire us to serve, recognizing and thanking volunteers who lend their time, talent and voice to make a difference in our Seven Lakes community. In this time of COVID where time equates to money, it is easy for people to ignore volunteering opportunities. Mr. Sam Ransdell was presented this award for his extraordinary volunteer and charitable efforts for the…
Entrance To Seven Lakes South Side On the cop series, Bosch always says…”Have A Better One”, we all do at the end of the day returning home to the South side at Seven Lakes. You’ll always laugh when you see the sayings posted by Rick Mackert, security guard. Every day Rick has a has a new one posted at the “shack.” Rick is from the Chicago area and worked for GE Storage West of Chicago for 54 years. His wife’s family is from the Sandhills and Rick and his family live in Pinehurst. He loves his part-time job, “I…
Crows…Crows…Crows Recently when I visited a good friend of mine Jackie Coger, to run the dogs on our golf carts I saw her feeding a wild crow in her front yard. She had been feeding this crow for several years and named it “Caw.” I did a little research and found that crows are highly intelligent and can recognize friends and foe. Did you know that crows remember faces? If you have a certain look (like big glasses) it really helps to keep that up for the crows as constantly changing appearances can confuse them. If you want…
By: Brittney Samuels SL News Reporter For the first time, NOAA is launching a national rip current forecast model, aimed at saving lives of beach-goers around the country. This new model can predict the hourly probability of rip currents along U.S. beaches up to six days out. Similar to predicting weather or precipitation, the model predicts the likelihood of dangerous seaward currents on a sliding scale from 0 to 100%. A rip current, is a localized current that flows away from the shoreline toward the ocean, perpendicular or at an acute angle to the shoreline. It usually breaks up not…