Local Roofing Hero Saves Bollinger County Recycling Center from Flying Away

Most businesses or services remind patrons to be sure to close the door when leaving. Bollinger County Recycling Center always did, and it does now, but for a few weeks the center’s manager posted a sign asking recyclers to please leave the door open to keep the roof from flying away. The roof would fly up whenever the wind blew, and an open door created a draft that alleviated that. Paula Bridges, chairman of Bollinger County Recycling Board of Directors, had asked the Bollinger County Commission last week for permission to seek bids to repair the roof on the old sale barn building on Highway 51 that serves as the recycling center. Around nine rafters on the roof were not connected to the frame, and a nearby tire store donated some old tires for volunteers to put on the roof to hold it down. Not quite sure where the money would come from to fix the roof, Bridges called three local contractors and each came out to the center. All three said they would submit a bid. One roofer, Daniel Polanczyk of Daniel’s Roofing, wanted to see it for himself. An employee had made the initial inspection and told Polanczyk about it. Polanczyk called Bridges and arranged a tour of the building. Then he gave her an offer she could not refuse. “He said, ‘We will do it for free to help the community,’” Bridges said. Last weekend employees of Daniel’s Roofing came to the center and repaired the roof. They also caulked a few spaces that needed it. And they took down the tires holding the roof in place and stacked them so Bridges could return them to the tire store. All Polanczyk asked for was to put a sign advertising his business in the recycling center’s yard.