| Darren Minnikins Is Northern Rock’s First Victim
Read the whole thing when you have time, in the forums,agw is the author Of course you are all invaluable in the NHS, but wouldn't it be more efficient if there were more medical people and less administration? Our local hospital at Southend was paying some chap £35k pa to 'manage' the car park, he made a complete and utter balls up of it. It takes me 30 mins to drive there and then an hour to park, and some of the auxillary nursing staff have to pay £5 per day out of their taxed pay of £35 for a god knows how long a shift to park there , its obscene. BTW he also had to pay a £5! .
Group aims for HVAC ‘yes’
Collecting donations, running ads and gathering new members along the way, Care For Kids continues to mount an organized effort to get the schools $3.35 million bond referendum approved for air conditioning and other improvements.
Meeting Wednesday, group members expressed concern not only for lack of A/C, but reports from teachers that the heating system at Hoover Elementary leaves some rooms still cold while teachers in others prop open windows to cool off.
We need to focus on the heat part of it, member Jeni Schiele said.
The group is organizing a petition drive to get a satellite voting booth set up at the March 7 elementary school carnival in hopes of pulling in more voters.
The group plans to meet with an architect Feb.
Local contractors tapped for FUSD projects
Flagstaff Unified School District construction contracts from the bond sale to total nearly $53 million will go to Flagstaff-based contractors Straightline Builders, Inc. and Goodman Contracting, as well as H.A.C.I. Mechanical Contractors, Inc. and Centennial Contractors Enterprises, Inc. which have local presences.Bond funds will also be used to improve the FUSD bus fleet with an approximate total of 37 buses. Both FUSD superintendent Kevin Brown and assistant superintendent of operations Bob Kuhn expressed enthusiasm in the board-approved contractors."The tax money comes from local businesses and families and it should be spent and used with local subcontractors and contractors," Kuhn said.He said the selection criteria were based upon the contractor's proposal, knowledge of the district, knowledge of job contracting and availability to the district.The Bond Oversight Committee and FUSD governing board approved the contracts Tuesday during the FUSD board meeting.
The winter of our content
But Jimmy Cone's betting there are enough who think otherwise to keep his latest business venture, Cone Farms LLC, growing. Cone — or, more precisely, his old friend Garry Koettel, who manages the farm's daily operations — raises organic heirloom tomatoes in a half-acre greenhouse just this side of Sheridan. They're a high-end, niche product, currently retailing for $5 a pound at the Fresh Market store in West Little Rock, but less than a year into things, demand is so strong that the farm's 6,000 plants can't keep up. Tomatoes aren't naturally a winter crop, of course, and those imported from warmer climates are infamous for their resemblance to cardboard. But Koettel insists that Cone Farms' 'maters are different because they are genuinely vine-ripened, not picked green and treated with ethylene gas to change their color.
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