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    Phoenix's Ocotillo Library to celebrate reopening - June 9, 2012 by Mr HomeBuilder

    by Connie Cone Sexton - Jun. 8, 2012 09:04 AM The Republic | azcentral.com

    A study room, training lab and Workforce Literacy Center are some of the new additions to the remodeled Ocotillo Library.

    The Phoenix branch, which was closed for about nine months, reopened in April but its official grand opening is set for 9 a.m. Saturday at the location, 102 W. Southern Ave.

    The $1.65 million renovation was funded in part by a one-time 2008-09 Community Development Block Grant stimulus award given to the city as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Other changes at the branch include a "First Five Years" space for children and more computer stations.

    Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, Councilman Michael Nowakowski and City Librarian Rita Hamilton will oversee Saturday's celebration. The 9 a.m. ribbon cutting will be followed by music and family activities, including a story time at 9:30 a.m. with the mayor and his wife.

    Ocotillo librarian Maria Dominguez said the Workforce Literacy Center will assist job seekers with workforce needs by serving as an "ACCESS Point" in partnership with the city-run Phoenix Workforce Connection, which offers help for job seekers. The center helps people with resume writing, interviewing skills and computer use to English as a second language.

    Having the center will help meet the needs of the community, Dominguez said. "A lot of their needs were employment necessities," she said. Many people told her they had never filled out a resume before, never knew how to look for a job, never knew how to interview for a job.

    Dominguez is excited about the grand reopening, especially because she doesn't think everyone in the neighborhood realizes the library is running again.

    "It's been a slow start but now, it's word of mouth, people are talking to people" about being open again.

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    Paul Cottle Construction – Portland Remodeling and Window Replacement – Video - June 9, 2012 by Mr HomeBuilder

    08-06-2012 02:36 Paul Cottle Construction 4420 Northeast 54th Avenue Portland, OR 97218 (503) 419-8688 Over 30 years experience in all phases of residential and commercial remodels, repairs and home improvements. Practicing sustainability while providing exceptional service.

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    Ferrari Enzo replacement spied - June 9, 2012 by Mr HomeBuilder

    The all-new Ferrari Enzo has been spotted in Maranello wearing less camouflage and revealing more of the flagship Ferrari's dramatic design.

    The curved and slatted rear window is clearly inspired by the P4/5, and despite the cladding you can still make out the incredibly low, wide and long proportions.

    At the rear the new flagship model is expected to make use of a spoiler, unlike the clean body of the Enzo. There also appears to be exhaust outlets either side of the rear window, as well as incorporated into the bumper.

    The new Enzo will use a 7.3-litre V12 coupled to an electric motor, which will combine to produce more than 900bhp eclipsing not only its chief rival, the 728bhp Porsche 918, but also the original 650bhp Ferrari Enzo. It will use a double-clutch gearbox and ceramic brakes.

    The new Enzo will also use a carbon fibre chassis and body, unlike other Ferraris such as the 458 and FF which use aluminium. It should be lighter than the original 1,255kg Enzo, guaranteeing that it's at the pinnacle of supercar performance. This means a 0-62mph time of less than three seconds and a top speed in excess of 220mph.

    The new Ferrari Enzo is expected to make its public debut later this year. Only 399 examples of the previous-generation Enzo were ever sold, so expect a similar number to find their way into the hands of owners. A price tag of more than 500,000 is expected, too.

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    Doing a kitchen remodel in phases takes planning - June 9, 2012 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Cabinets can make a drastic difference to the look, feel and functionality of your kitchen.

    Brent Murray

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    Last week, we began a discussion of how to tackle a major kitchen overhaul in several stages to try to defray some of the cost of such a major undertaking.

    As we noted, according to Remodeling magazine's 2011 Cost vs. Value Report, a major, 200-square-foot kitchen remodel costs about $58,000, with a 65 percent return on investment come selling time.

    Stage one was to develop a careful, complete plan for your new kitchen. As we have said (a few hundred times before), planning should always be the first step to any remodeling project!

    Let's now review stages two through five:

    Stage two: Order the cabinets, appliances and lighting fixtures.

    Cabinets and appliances are the biggest investments in your kitchen remodeling project. If you're remodeling in stages, you can order appliances any time after the plans are complete and store them in a garage (away from moisture) or in a spare room until you're ready to pull the trigger on the installation.

    Remember, however, that most equipment comes with a one-year warranty. You do want to at least get the equipment installed and up and running during that time so if problems arise with anything they can be dealt with by the manufacturer.

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    Delanco clerk charged with theft of permit and registration fees - June 9, 2012 by Mr HomeBuilder

    DELANCO A former employee of the townships construction office was charged with stealing money from building permit and rental registration fees and using it for personal expenses, authorities said Friday.

    Carla Ann Sarlo, 44, of South Warrington Avenue in Cinnaminson, was charged with one count of third-degree theft for taking $1,200 in fees she was supposed to deposit into a municipal bank account, the Burlington County Prosecutors Office said.

    Sarlo surrendered to authorities Friday morning and was released on her own recognizance pending the presentation of her case to a county grand jury for indictment.

    She began working as a clerk in the Delanco construction office in September 2003 and is alleged to have stolen the permit fees between May 1, 2011, and June 30, 2011. The money came from 12 individuals who sought permits and rental registrations and paid their fees in cash, investigators said.

    Instead of making bank deposits on the townships behalf, Sarlo stole the money and used it to pay for gasoline, food and her cellphone bill. To conceal the thefts, she recorded the transactions in a log but later voided the entries, authorities said.

    The thefts were discovered after a person who paid Sarlo for a rental registration received a delinquent notice from the township.

    Sarlo, who was fired in August, has repaid the municipality $941, said Joel Bewley, spokesman for the Prosecutors Office.

    The case was investigated by detectives from the Prosecutors Offices special investigations unit.

    David Levinsky: 609-871-8154; email: dlevinsky@phillyBurbs.com; Twitter: @davidlevinsky

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    Delanco construction office clerk charged with theft of permit and registration fees - June 9, 2012 by Mr HomeBuilder

    DELANCO A former employee of the townships construction office was charged with stealing money from building permit and rental registration fees and using it for personal expenses, authorities said Friday.

    Carla Ann Sarlo, 44, of South Warrington Avenue in Cinnaminson, was charged with one count of third-degree theft for taking $1,200 in fees she was supposed to deposit into a municipal bank account, the Burlington County Prosecutors Office said.

    Sarlo surrendered to authorities Friday morning and was released on her own recognizance pending the presentation of her case to a county grand jury for indictment.

    She began working as a clerk in the Delanco construction office in September 2003 and is alleged to have stolen the permit fees between May 1, 2011, and June 30, 2011. The money came from 12 individuals who sought permits and rental registrations and paid their fees in cash, investigators said.

    Instead of making bank deposits on the townships behalf, Sarlo stole the money and used it to pay for gasoline, food and her cellphone bill. To conceal the thefts, she recorded the transactions in a log but later voided the entries, authorities said.

    The thefts were discovered after a person who paid Sarlo for a rental registration received a delinquent notice from the township.

    Sarlo, who was fired in August, has repaid the municipality $941, said Joel Bewley, spokesman for the Prosecutors Office.

    The case was investigated by detectives from the Prosecutors Offices special investigations unit.

    David Levinsky: 609-871-8154; email: dlevinsky@phillyBurbs.com; Twitter: @davidlevinsky

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    Erosion still undermining Iowa cemetery - June 8, 2012 by Mr HomeBuilder

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    LEHIGH, Iowa (AP) More land is sliding into a ravine at a rural cemetery near Lehigh where heavy rains a while back caused erosion so severe that caskets, vaults and bones were exposed.

    The damage, which happened in 2009 and 2010, is in a section at the back of Oak Grove Cemetery that has the oldest graves. Last year a contractor donated his labor to build an 18-foot retaining wall to prevent further erosion. The wall didn't last long.

    The middle section of the modular plastic landscaping brick has collapsed, and the rest of the wall appears to be failing too. Turf the length of the wall has sunk. So has the fencing. But no graves are exposed.

    We had a lot of volunteer labor to help. It was a good charity, but we still have the same problem, said Phil Berglund, a member of the Yell Township Board of Trustees, which oversees the cemetery.

    It's just as bad as it was before, only now we don't have the graves out over the edge, he said.

    A judge ruled last year the state could issue permits to have remains at Oak Grove exhumed and reburied. All but two graves closest to the ravine have since been moved to other areas of the cemetery, Berglund said.

    Webster County Board member Eddie Peterson said the trustees are responsible for the care of the cemetery, but there's a limit to the money available to fix the problem.

    Someone stepped up to fix it and it looked good for a while, but a lot of it is just dropping off. I don't know if there is a good way to fix it; it's a pretty steep ravine. People talk about how the trustees need to do something, but they are doing their very best, Peterson said.

    The contractor who built the wall, Tim Schultz, said he doesn't know what is causing the problem.

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    DJ Mark Farina Will Not Be Kicked Off the Decks at Mighty This Weekend - June 8, 2012 by Mr HomeBuilder

    Following a June 2 incident in Las Vegas in which he was barred from performing a scheduled DJ set at the nightclub Marquee -- because, he was told, the crowd was sick of house music -- San Francisco club Mighty is showing its support for local DJ Mark Farina with this "Team Farina" flyer.

    "My liaison said manager was getting complaints from table service crowd," Farina tweeted about the incident last weekend. He added in another message that he didn't get to even start his set before being told that he couldn't play. "Apparently too much house for this Vegas crowd," Farina tweeted.

    Not only will Mighty make sure Farina gets to play his entire set this weekend, management will not even suggest to him what to spin. So what happened in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

    Farina is set to play with DJs Miguel Migs and Julius Papp at the Salted anniversary party on Saturday, June 9 at Mighty. Advance tickets are $20. But before that, he's ironically scheduled to return to Vegas today (June 7) to play at the Boulevard Pool at the Cosmopolitan as part of the EDMBiz Conference. Here's hoping that crowd lets this well-known S.F. DJ play whatever he wants.

    ---- Follow us on Twitter @SFAllShookDown, follow Tamara Palmer @teemoney415, and like us at Facebook.com/SFAllShookDown.

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    Bettendorf home with mold problems torn down - June 8, 2012 by Mr HomeBuilder

    A Bettendorf home with a history of mold problems and other alleged deficiencies was torn down Thursday, only seven years after it was built.

    William and Shelly Wood took out a $400,000 mortgage in June 2005 to buy the home at 6275 Eagle Ridge Road, according to property records. The 2012 assessed value for the two-story home with 5,015 square feet of living space and the 0.59 acre lot was listed at $155,070, according to the Scott County Assessors Office.

    The Woods subsequently filed two lawsuits in Scott County District Court against contractor Mark McManus and McManus Development.

    One lawsuit claimed several problems with the homes construction, including doors, windows and flooring that were not properly installed, heating and cooling problems, granite that was cut incorrectly and excessive moisture levels in the interior walls and window areas on the west wall.

    The second lawsuit claimed that excessive moisture in the home had resulted in a mold problem that caused or aggravated allergy problems for the Woods two sons.

    McManus Development subsequently brought in several subcontractors as third-party defendants.

    The Woods requested that both lawsuits be dismissed in May 2011.

    McManus issued a statement Thursday that read: McManus Development has a long history of building quality homes for satisfied customers. We believe the house at 6275 Eagle Ridge Road, Bettendorf, Iowa, was built by our highly qualified employees and subcontractors in a manner that exceeded industry standards and building codes. We deny that anything we or our subcontractors did or allegedly failed to do caused any problems with the house.

    Calls to William Wood and the Woods attorney were not returned Thursday.

    Douglas Houston, owner of the Steamatic mold remediation business in Bettendorf, said that in his 15 years in the business, he has never heard of a home being torn down because of a mold problem, but there have been homes where the mold was so pervasive he had to strip the home down to just the wooden frame.

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    Committee says Doylestown Twp. needs sewers; residents say it doesn't - June 8, 2012 by Mr HomeBuilder

    For the last 14 years, three different public water and sewer advisory committees have examined malfunctioning septic systems in the Pebble Ridge neighborhood in Doylestown Township and determined the area needs a public sewer system.

    The results have always been the same. They dont get any better. They continue to get worse as the years go by, sewer committee member Joe Van Houten said when the sewer committee presented its recommendation to residents Thursday night.

    And the more we continue to kick the can down the road, the more costs will increase.

    But for the last 14 years, groups of 100 or more residents some of them the same, some of them new have said they dont want sewers.

    A sewer adds no value to my home. I dont need it. I dont want it, said Dave Murray, summing up the feelings of many.

    The sewer committee wants to install a pipe in the street a sewer main in the part of Pebble Ridge that includes Old New Road, Buck Road, Woodridge Drive and the roads that connect to them. There are about 257 homes in the neighborhood.

    Engineers determined through visual surveys in 2008 that 15 septic systems were malfunctioning and 35 others could be malfunctioning. The Bucks County Department of Health has said the malfunctioning septic systems are a health and public safety issue.

    Some of the homeowners with malfunctioning septic systems cannot replace them because a new septic system is required to be specific distances from the homes old septic system, neighbors septic systems, the homes well and neighbors wells. Scientists from Delaware Valley College and the Bucks County Department of Health have said the soils in the area are clay-like and septic systems wont work well.

    Sewer committee leaders said as they have said before putting a pipe in the street (is) the only solution.

    Committee leaders said each homeowner would have to pay about $20,480 just to install the sewer main.

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