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Elaina Marinik

My education at Lake State taught me not only the basics of exercise science and health and wellness but prepared me for my future research career. I became involved in national organizations, improved my networking skills to create working relationships, and ended up with an amazing paid internship that turned into a 3-year research professional position at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, GA. Now in graduate school pursuing a doctorate degree at Virginia Tech, I rely on the knowledge I acquired at Lake State and put it to practice daily while discussing health-related topics in class or conducting obesity and inflammation research in our laboratory.

Elaina Marinik
Exercise Science Alum,
Graduate Student,
Virginia Tech.

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Sault Ste. Marie Water Tower

This water tower was constructed around 1900 and was in use until the
early 1960s. The masonry structure is 45 feet in diameter at the
base and 78 feet high, and topped with a conical roof. The lower half of
the tower is built of cut course stone, while the upper half is brick.

It houses a 370,000 gallon steel tank which is 40 feet in diameter.

Last winter the tower was wrapped with what appear to be copper bands. If you look closely at the photos you can see the bands over the brick.

Resting comfortably

The roof had become quite rotten over the years; pigeons had
breached the fascia and were living inside. The rotten roof will
be replaced by a new metal roof. The city now uses a more
modern metal water tower, located on Fourth Avenue just a
few blocks from the old original tower.

Click here for the water tower story in the Sault Evening News