Frustrated by repeated street flooding, Vassiliki Ellwood Yiagazis picked up a shovel.
The owner of Smoke and Honey in Mid-City pulled 5 feet of compacted soil and garbage from a catch basin on North Rendon Street, clearing a stop-up that had kept away customers on rainy days.
Ellwood Yiagazis did so after she spent two years begging the Sewerage and Water Board and city officials to do the work themselves. Six separate service requests went nowhere…