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Century’s Splash Pad Is Now Repaired And Open Thanks To Neighborly Help
June 7, 2025
Sometimes you just need a little help from your friends and neighbors.
“Guess what?” Century Mayor Ben Boutwell texted NorthEscambai.com Friday afternoon, followed by a short video and a few photos of the town’s splash pad now up and running after around a year of downtime.
As we have reported a couple of times in the past few weeks, the splash pad was left non-functional without electricity following a small fire in an electrical control panel at a nearby softball left the town unable to make repairs to the water feature.
But Friday, two Town of Flomaton employees — on their day off — worked to restore the power, diagnose and repair the splash pad.
“We have a mutual aid agreement with Flomaton where we can help each other out with equipment and other needs,” Boutwell said. “Shaun Moye and Chris Barrow from Flomaton were able to help us today, and the splash pad is running thanks to their hard work.”
At their last council meeting, the town council decided to hire a contractor to fix the splash pad, but Century was able to avoid the expense with Flomaton’s help.
The splash pad was also cleaned and disinfected on Friday afternoon.
The Century splash pad, located at Showalter Park on Kelly Field Road, is open from sunrise to sunset. The park also features a playground.
Pictured: After about a year, the Century splash pad was repaired on Friday. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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8 Responses to “Century’s Splash Pad Is Now Repaired And Open Thanks To Neighborly Help”
This is great! Now, if only we could do something about the drug deals that happen at that park most nights…
That’s fantastic.
Gomes-ran his mouth and sat on his duff.
Boutwell-got off his duff and made things happen
Therein lies the difference
Thanks to all of y’all for fixing something up for our children to be able to enjoy and have fun during the hot summer months.
So really it just needed someone to work on it instead of talking about what all might be wrong with it.
A big thank you to Shaun and Chris !!!
There are those who talk about getting things done and there are those who roll their sleeves up and get them done. It is obvious which category mayor Boutwell resembles and which category those before him match.
Thank The Almighty Southern Kindness is still alive.
I would like to extend my appreciation to Shaun Moye and Chris Barrow (Employees
in the Town of Flomaton) for helping the Town of Century’s residents.
It has usually been amusing, in a negative way, to read about a small town with so
many problems.
Gives a feeling of pride that GREED is not in everyone’s mind.
Again, thank y’all Shaun and Chris.
Nice to see communities working together! Thanks to the gentlemen who donated their time and knowledge so that our kids can cool off this summer!