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| - Photo by ROBERT DEANE Jurcevich Construction Incorporated employee Serge Avdeyev uses a nail gun to secure a support beam in the new NASCO Corporate Headquarters building in Elk Creek. Jurcevich Construction Inc. began putting up the framing for the new building Monday. Progress continues on NASCO headquarters |
ELK CREEK - The new corporate headquarters in Elk Creek for Native American Services Corporation (NASCO) is moving forward smoothly.
I had no idea this new construction is underway in Elk Creek. Growing up, Elk Creek was most famous for a swimming hole nicknamed "Polio Pond".
Did anyone ever really contract polio in that pond?
I've always been curious.
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I dunno. We swam at Sanders Beach.
I remember as a child of 6 or 7 riding past said pond and thinking that it looked like so much fun. I didn't hear the name until many years later. Have considered that those of us born after 1954 or so grew up in that charmed period after polio but before AIDS.
Mom would know you know... but I think it was called that according to expert because it was still water and that is where people contracted polio...even though probably nobody did. I hope they didn't have to relocate the gas/grocery/auto shop/pawn shop in Elk Creek to build this!
The building is going up on the former site of the Elk Creek School and the undeveloped property to the west of it. The gas/grocery/auto shop/pawn shop is safe.
Polio Pond was filled in and is now the site of a storage building operation. They tore down the school building to clear the land for the new building. Like swimming at Sander's Beach, things change and much of the change is beyond our control. We are left with our memories of how it once was...
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