Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Charity Smith/Daily Globe Technicians install a refurbished heating unit on the roof of Washington Elementary School in Bessemer on Wednesday afternoon to help heat the school's kitchen.
BESSEMER - Bessemer school officials were able to turn on the heat in the Washington Elementary School kitchen for the first time in months Wednesday as a repairs were made to the building's heating system.
A crew of heating technicians spent four hours on Wednesday repairing the part of the system that controls the heat in the kitchen.
According to head cook Brandy Babich, the kitchen has not been properly heated since the start of the school year. She said that the heat would come and go often. Since the recent colder weather hit, they have been compensating for the lack of heat in the kitchen by leaving doors and windows open into the lunchroom, she said. This allowed the heat from the rest of the building to enter the kitchen area, she said.
Tony Doreinen, an H-VAC technician with UHL told the Daily Globe the make-up air unit has a heater built into it and introduces outside air into the kitchen to make up for what is being let out through the kitchen's exhaust fans.
District superintendent Dan Niemi told the Daily Globe on Jan. 25 that the estimated the cost of the refurbished unit was $4,923.
