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MT. VERNON The MVTHS School Board Tuesday approved seeking bids to demolish Buildings A through F and M at the old campus.
The cost of demolishing the buildings and abating asbestos has been estimated at roughly $1.3 million, but a firm price tag won't be known until after bids are received. The goal is to complete the project by June 1, 2018, but the time frame is not set in stone, said Mt. Vernon Township High School Consultant Dr. Nick Osborne.
That's our target, Osborne said. We'd like to see it all taken care of before the next school year begins.
Last month, school board members reached a consensus that A through F and M Buildings should be demolished and G and H Buildings should be sold. A through F are located on the east side of Seventh Street and M is a small house across from F Building.
Dealing with the old campus has become a major priority for the board considering the cost of maintaining the site, as well as liability and vandalism concerns.
Estimates are it costs $11,000 to $12,000 a month or about $150,000 a year to maintain A through F Buildings with utilities. And while outside parties have expressed interest in buying G and H, no one has done so for A through F.
Currently, MVTHS officials are compiling a list of firms that may want to submit bids for the demolition. A bid specification packet will be sent to those companies.
In addition, the district will place ads in local newspapers to advertise for bids and interested parties can also contact MVTHS for more information.
Potential bidders will be required to attend a pre-bid meeting Sept. 13 in A Building at the old campus. A time for the meeting has not yet been set.
We think this is important enough that we're going to make sure people are understanding what they're getting into with this, Osborne said. This is a very big project, a very large project with a lot of issues that have to be attended to.
MVTHS Board President Matthew Flanigan warned that the asbestos abatement adds another layer of complexity to the project.
There's a lot of liability issues, especially with asbestos, that we've got to take care of, he said.
Meanwhile, the district is seeking proposals from architectural firms to oversee construction of a new 15,000 square-foot maintenance building that would also include space for athletic and drama storage, as well as concessions and restrooms.
It is unclear whether MVTHS will build one or two structures. The cost is estimated at more than $1 million and the project also has a tentative completion date of June 1, 2018, Osborne said.
MVTHS will pay for the demolition and maintenance building out of its Capital Projects Fund, which contains about $2.5 million from the state's final payment for the new school construction, among other revenues. The rest of the state funding was used to pay off half of MVTHS' debt.
According to updated figures presented Tuesday, the Capital Projects Fund begins fiscal year 2018 with a balance of about $6.8 million and will end the year at $212,000, a loss of about $6.6 million.
The fund includes roughly $3.5 million in expenses to pay for the maintenance building and old campus demolition, as well as completion of the greenhouse and the baseball/softball fields.
Interim Superintendent Marilyn Holt said she hopes bids for the demolition and maintenance building come in much lower than initial cost estimates.
Holt praised Osborne and Director of Facilities Brian Rightnowar for their work on the projects and said she is excited about the progress being made.
They have done amazing work and I take my hat off to both of those gentlemen, Holt said. I'm pleased with the progress.
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The first stage of demolition work is underway at the former Hydro Aluminium Kurri Kurri smelter.
MOVING FORWARD: Hydro Kurri Kurri managing director Richard Brown and CMA Contracting project manager Mick Lawrence.
The redevelopment of the former Hydro Aluminium smelter site near Kurri Kurri has taken a significant step forward, with the first stage of demolition works underway.
CMA Contracting was appointedprincipal contractor for the project in April, and commenced works to demolish the smelter infrastructure last week.
The first stage of demolition will includemost of the buildings on site and is expected to be completed by late 2018.
But it will could a few more years before the smelters iconic chimney stacks disappear from the localskyline.
The stacks and water towers are part of the second stage of demolition and remediation, which is still undergoing assessment for approval.
Buildings with potential for reuse andthosestoring waste materials, and below-ground infrastructure are also part of the second stage.
The chimney stacks will be part of the second stage of demolition, which is still undergoing assessment.
The chimney stacks and water towers will be part of the second stage of demolition, which is still undergoing assessment.
The chimney stacks will be part of the second stage of demolition, which is still undergoing assessment.
Rezoning of the 1900-hectare site is also under assessment.
Hydro has applied to rezone the predominantly-rural site to accommodateabout215 hectares for employment activities, 180 hectares for residential development, and around 1300 hectares for conservation purposes.
Rezoning proposals were endorsed by Cessnock and Maitland councils in 2015 and received gateway approval with conditions in March 2016.
One of the conditions was the requirement for a flood study by Maitland City Council that takes into account the Testers Hollow area.
The flood study is expected to be complete in early 2018, andoverall the rezoning process is expected to take up to three years.
The smelter ceased production in November 2012 and was permanently closed 18 months later.
Hydro Kurri Kurri managing director Richard Brown saidwhile the start of demolition was an exciting milestone, its still early days.
A lot of preparation has to go into it its a comprehensive process.
An aerial view of the Hydro site. Video: REGROWTH Kurri Kurri
The Hydro project team welcomesfeedback and questions fromlocal residents, business owners or other stakeholders.
Phone1800 066 243, emailcommunity.kurri@hydro.comor write toHydro Aluminium Kurri Kurri, PO Box 1, Kurri Kurri NSW 2327 with our inquiries.
April 28, 2017:Demolition work at Hydro due to start in May
April 12, 2017: Call to move new hospital
August 11, 2016: Hydroprogress on public display
March 29, 2016:Hydroproposal progresses
September27, 2015: New plan for Hydro smelter waste
September 8, 2015:Smelter waste may be recycled, if feasible
August 18, 2015:Ideas sought for tribute to smelter
August 22, 2014:HydroKurri reveals plans for on-site contamination cell
July 2, 2014:Hydroassesses options for site remediation
May 14, 2014:New opportunities for KurriHydrosite
March 12, 2014:KurriHydrosite in prime position
March 12, 2013:Options considered forHydrosite
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The elder brother of the Manchester United star was on target as the Castle Lords dismantled the amateur side in an exhibition match
Mathias Pogba netted twice as Sparta Rotterdam made light work of PPSC 22-1 in a friendly encounter on Saturday.
Lukaku: Who could reject Man Utd?
Alex Pastoors men went into the break leading 12-0 after Thomas Verhaar, Loris Brogno and Ragnar Ache all registered hat-tricks.
Slovenian Dalibor Volas wason target twice while Paco van Moorsel also found the net.
At the beginning of the restart, the Eredivisie outfit rang the changes but did not soft-pedal on the non-league side.
Ache got his fourth goal before making way for Pogba in the 62nd minute. Stijn Spierings and Rick Drongelen registered twice each,with Craig Goodwin, Ryan Sanusi andIlias Alhaft allon target.
Guinea internationalPogba got his name on the scoresheet just after two minutes of coming on, and the former Patrick Thistle striker got the 22nd goal for his side in the 84th minute.
There was still time, however, for their amateur counterparts to get a consolatory goal via Eretreffer to end the tie 22-1.
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Drivers battle it out in the arena during the annual Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo on Saturday, July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
The Central Wyoming Fairgrounds grandstands were packed with fans hungry for to watch the arena floor get soaked with radiator fluid, oil and various car parts during the annual Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo Demolition Derby on Saturday, July 8, in Casper.
The popular event drew dozens of contestants with their stripped and modified hulks in a smashing spectacle of bent metal and exhaust fumes. Its the ultimate rush, said Cling Harris as he prepared his sons car for the event.
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Fair and rodeo events continue through the week, including the downtown parade on Tuesday morning and the start of the PRCA Rodeo on Tuesday evening.
Josh Wilson puts on his gloves before taking his 1975 Monte Carlo into the arena for the annual Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo Demolition Derby on Saturday, July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Cars are lined up before the first heat on Saturday, July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
A car prepared for battle before the annual demolition derby at the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo on July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Clint Harris makes a few adjustments on his sons demo derby car before competition on Saturday, July 8, at the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo in Casper. The 1984 Caprice station wagon has been in four derbys. It keeps on ticking, I dont know why, said Harris. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Fans watch the action from the packed grandstands at the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo on Saturday, July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Steam and smoke belch from a demolition derby car as it dies in battle on July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Merri Toellner gives her friend Mike Cook a thumbs up before the second heat of the annual Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo on Saturday, July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
A contestant leaves his wrecked demolition derby car at the end of a heat on Saturday, July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Demolition derby fans cheer the carnage on Saturday, July 8, at the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Derby cars smash through a heat during the annual Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo Demolition Derby on Saturday, July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Cars battle to the end during a heat in the annual demolition derby on Saturday, July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
Josh Wilson takes in cheers from the crowd after an impressive performance in his 1975 Monte Carlo during the annual Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo Demolition Derby on Saturday, July 8, in Casper. (Dan Cepeda, Oil City)
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Carr Properties contends nighttime activity will minimize disruption to office workers, drivers
By Bethany Rodgers
Published: 2017.07.06 02:56
The Apex building in downtown Bethesda is slated for demolition and redevelopment.
Bethany Rodgers
Montgomery County is weighing a developers request to conduct round-the-clock demolition of the Apex building in downtown Bethesda starting as soon as August.
Working during nights and on weekends would speed up the demolition process, enabling crews to level the 150,000-square-foot building in roughlytwo months instead of four, according to developer Carr Properties. The company described its plans in an application for a temporary noise waiver for the hours from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. on weekends.
Two adjacent southbound lanes of Wisconsin Avenue will shut down at night and one will close during the day to protect passing motorists while the building is being razed, the application states. The companys plan also calls for traffic signage and flaggers to help pedestrians navigate the closures.
Carr wants to replace the existing structure at 7272 Wisconsin Ave. with office and apartment towers that could soar 300 feet into the sky. The company has also agreed to construct a shell for a future Purple Line station beneath the complex, and despite the legal entanglements that have delayed the light-rail project, the Maryland Transit Administration is holding Carr to a late 2018 deadline, according to the June 19 waiver application.
Sticking to this schedule requires an expedited demolition process, Carr argues in its request for a noise waiver effective from Aug. 1 through Oct. 31.
Stan Edwards, Montgomery Countys chief of environmental policy and compliance, said the countys noise waivers are good for 30 days and can be reissued for two 30-day periods. After that, the developer has to submit an entirely new application, he said.
The county publishes a notice of a noise waiver request and gathers public comment for at least 10 days before deciding whether to grant it. In this case, the county will allow extra time so that more people can offer feedback, Edwards said.
Carrs application describes proposed tools and methods for the razing process and states the noise levels from a 50-foot distance should stay below 85 decibels, or about as loud as a blender or food processor, according to the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.
In the interests of minimizing noise, crews will not set off explosives or swing wrecking balls to flatten the Apex and instead use hydraulic pulverizers and shears mounted on excavators. Theyll also save jack-hammering for daytime hours.
Carr also has forged an agreement with neighboring retailers not to do weekend demolition on the side of the property that faces their establishments. And nearby office workers, drivers and pedestrians will suffer less disruption if the razing takes place at night, Carr argues in the application.
The only residences within a 500-foot radius of the site are the Darcy condominiums on Woodmont Avenue and the Seasons apartments on Bethesda Avenue, Carr has determined.
Edwards noted there are hotels near the Apex site. But hes hopeful that the location of the demolition will help dampen the commotion.
Its surrounded by lots of big buildings, and that will serve as a good noise buffer, Edwards said, although he added there definitely will be a lot of people who will hear it.
News that Carr had applied for a noise waiver was first reported by local blogger Robert Dyer.
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Stolen credit cards were used to buy merchandise at nearby stores
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DIXON Little remote controlled cars spun, rammed and flipped over on a dirt track Saturday, all for a good cause.
The inaugural RC Demolition Derby is one of the biggest fundraisers the Rotary Club of Dixon has hosted in a while. It brought out hundreds of people who not only volunteered but enjoyed watching the event.
The goal really is to have fun, said Kevin Johnson, president of the Rotary club. We also hoped to raise some money.
He estimated that they raised between $5,000 to $10,000 with the food vendors and dunk booth. The money will go toward scholarships for Dixon High School students and other local organizations.
The idea came from watching demolition derbies, but Johnson realized that could lead to some injuries, which was not the idea at all. He saw RC demolition derbies on the internet and thought that might be something that would work.
Mike Hamilton, Dane Besneatte and Steve Beeman dug a track at the Chamber of Commerce parking lot, which has some dry dirt areas.
The goal is to do as many moves as possible and not have your car flip over, Johnson said.
Children from the community came out with their cars. Some practiced for days to learn how to control them. The total number of participants was 53 people.
Natalie Nielsen, 7, of Folsom came to spend a few days with her grandmother and joined the event.
I wore out my battery last night, so when we came down today it was dead, she said.
But that was quickly fixed with a new battery and her gold and purple polka dot RC car was ready to go.
Her grandmother, Debra Dingham, who also was at the event as a representative for Remax Gold Johnson Group, couldnt keep a smile off her face.
I am having so much fun, she said. I think watching the kids is my favorite part. They are having such fun.
She pointed out the center of the track with the pit of death, which no car should be able to get out of but they were leaving.
This is a first on so many levels, Dingham said.
The U.S. Army brought a climbing rock for the first-time derby, which will not be the last, she thinks.
Its going to come back next year, bigger, she said.
The grand prize for person with the most points was $1,000 and they had nine $100 prizes, she said.
Volunteers came out to serve food. Women from the Kiwanis offered to paint faces and any tips went toward the clubs fundraiser.
This is going to double each year and just get better and better, Dingham said.
Reach Susan Hiland at 427-6981 or [emailprotected]
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Mayors of Detroit have had a unique way of measuring success: By the number of homes they've torn down.
One of former Mayor Dave Bing's signature programs was his pledge to demolish 10,000 homes. When his successor, Mike Duggan, hit that goal last year, he hosted a celebration complete with a sign reading "10,000" on the west side home that was razed.
Duggan has demolished about 11,500 homes and wants to raze another 2,000 to 4,000 per year, making it the nation's largest blight-removal program. The city has received more than $250 million for the effort from the federal government's Hardest Hit Fund of the Troubled Asset Relief Program and through Michigan State Housing Development Authority.
Demolitions are popular among neighbors in a city that's lost more than 1 million residents in 60 years, and where blighted and burned homes can remain nuisances for decades.
But demolitions are also controversial. The Hardest Hit Fund was created to provide mortgage relief to help homeowners who owed more than their homes were worth after the 2008 housing collapse. Steering money toward demolitions denied to it underwater homeowners.
And Duggan's program is the focus of multiple investigations. The federal government has filed subpoenas into bidding practices and demolition costs. A separate grand jury has reportedly subpoenaed as many as 30 contractors and city agencies (Duggan says he's not a target). State officials are advocating fines because contractors mishandled asbestos from razed homes.
What's more, a recent blight survey by Loveland Technologies, a private company that maps the city, questions whether demolition is even keeping pace with blight in Detroit. Vacancies in neighborhoods targeted for demolition have actually increased 64 percent in four years, the survey found.
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SERTAR, CHINA The hills around the revered Larung Gar Tibetan Buddhist academy were once a seamless carpet of vibrant red, dominated by the homes of thousands of monks, nuns and devotees who crowded the remote valley in southwest China to explore their faith.
Today, the landscape is riven with scars, with many houses destroyed and some neighborhoods torn apart after demolition crews were sent in by authorities, who have ordered a mass clear out of the area.
More than 10,000 people including many Han Chinese devotees were living around Larung Gar, the worlds largest and most important institution for Tibetan Buddhist learning, but the government believes the area had become dangerously overcrowded.
Human rights groups, however, see the demolitions as a ploy by the atheist ruling Communist Party to tighten its grip on religious practice in Tibetan regions.
Bulldozers began crushing homes last year but the process has escalated over the past few months. The properties are being razed to make way for tourism infrastructure, parking, and better roads leading down the steep hills to the central monastic buildings.
They tore down so many houses. The government said there were too many people, said Tibetan Buddhist student Gyatso, 26, as he handed freshly sawn planks to a red-robed friend hammering them onto an extension to a house they now share meters from his old one.
Inside, a small tape player quietly chanted mantras repeatedly. Tibetan language books lined the walls next to framed photographs of Jigme Phuntsok, the charismatic lama who founded the academy in the 1980s.
Its freezing here in the winter, but Im used to it and wouldnt live anywhere else, said Gyatso, who came to Larung Gar as a boy with his family of poor nomadic herders.
He received 5,000 yuan ($735) in compensation for his old home.
Edeng, who like Gyatso withheld his full name for security reasons, was not so lucky. He was ordered out of Larung Gar, his home of two decades, last fall, and now rents a room near a monastery two hours away.
Of course I didnt want to move, but when the Khenpos decide something you have to listen. There was nothing I could do, he said, referring to revered Buddhist teachers who manage the encampment and have mediated the government request to reduce numbers.
Departing residents have to sign pledges promising never to return to live at Larung Gar, and some have been subject to intensive political re-education once home, according to Human Rights Watch.
HRW has condemned the evictions as a fundamentally abusive campaign that has prompted suicides, public humiliation and serious disruption to the community.
The European Parliament called on China in December to stop the demolitions and respect freedom of religion.
Six United Nations human rights experts expressed grave concern in a November letter to the government, recalling a previous demolition campaign in 2001, when some 8,000 residents were driven out as homes were destroyed, sometimes with people still inside.
Larung Gar has grown in unprecedented size and influence for a Buddhist academy on the Tibetan plateau.
Authorities said last year its population, estimated at between 10,000 and 20,000, would be cut to 5,000 by this September to improve fire safety and sanitation.
A blaze destroyed around 100 houses in 2014, without causing casualties, according to the International Campaign for Tibet.
Of course fire safety isnt the issue. All they want is to control things very easily, said Lobsang, a monk now living in a neighboring county who studied at Larung Gar for seven years.
The government doesnt like so many people over 10,000 people opening their minds because the school is so good. They think these people are very dangerous, he added.
Some 4,500 nuns and monks had been expelled as of March, according to a senior abbot cited by campaign groups, and over 3,000 homes are thought to have been destroyed as of this spring.
Authorities have made the area nearly inaccessible to foreigners with checkpoints and a heavy security presence, while temporarily limiting flows of Chinese tourists.
In a neighboring valley, nuns have been placed in square rows of blue-roofed temporary housing.
But locals say demolitions cannot take away the strong pride in Tibetan identity, language and religion the academy has instilled.
Villagers in hamlets hours away carry cards and wear pendants distributed by Larung Gar, representing a vow to live by a moral program of 10 virtues espoused by its Khenpos.
For Lhamo, a Tibetan county government employee charged with convincing elderly devotees to leave Larung Gar for retirement homes, imposing the current order has been emotionally taxing.
People would yell and curse at her, she said, but she understood their frustrations.
That little house is their everything. Even though some are very, very crude, they dont have anything else in the world, she said.
When I tell them that there are better living conditions elsewhere, they say they only care about studying Buddhism, not material things. What can you possibly say in return?
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November 29, 2016 by
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Grief is a funny thing; its affects on people change not only the person experiencing such a powerful and life-altering emotion, but it changes the way people around you view you, and the choices people make around you. One of the many emotions and reflections that the film allowed me to analyze was, thankfully for myself, the lack of grief that I have had to experience in my life thus far, and the amount of grief stricken in the world around me, with numerous people who have directly dealt with lose first-hand in my life everyday.
Jean-Marc Valle, the director of many heavy-handed drama films like C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria, The Dallas Buyers Club, Caf de Flore and Wild, really loves to make movies with heavy use of symbolism. In his newest directorial effort, Demolition, the symbolism for the deconstruction of Davis life, played unflinchingly by the always stellar Jake Gyllenhaal, really doesnt hold back its explicit nature. Living an overall numb life from the moment we meet him, Davis seems to live each and everyday with very little to almost no real, pure emotions. Rather, explaining the paths of his life with monotone vigour, including the timeline of his wifes life, their meeting, and ultimately, her tragic death, Davis becomes avery difficult man to like, in all aspects of his life.
Whats funny about Demolition is, the films life begins with Julias (Heather Lind) death. In some of the very first and brief scenes of the film, we see Julia and Davis interact, almost as any other couple would; comfortable, passively and without much conviction. What starts off as a simple conversation in the car between husband and wife, quickly turns deadly, as the car is hit, Davis is bloody in a hospital waiting room with his in-laws Fil and Margot (Chris Cooper and Polly Draper) waiting on the news of his wifes fate. As we see in the trailer, Julia never makes it. Fortunately for us, Valle has an amazing way of allowing audiences to see an obscure and unexplored perspective on so many moments we come to expect to see in film, and turns them on its head. For example, after the news of Julias death, Davis makes his way into the operating room where his wife once laid. The room, empty and full of blood on the floors, white operating sheets and medical tools used to attempt to save her life, is one of the first very poignant images Valle has become famous with offering, giving perspective on the very real images of life, more specifically, on a moment many people never really see or associate with death on a hospital bed; an empty bed with nothing but blood and shattered prayers.
As the early reviews of this film began to flood online after its initial premiere and choice as the opening night film for TIFF 40 in 2015, Demolition has seem to be one universally accepted film to divide people. Going into the film, I was wondering why. I mean, Gyllenhaal is one of the supreme acting forces of our young generation, Valle is an excellent storyteller and director, and the supporting cast and crew is nothing short of talented, yet, the film, scripted by Bryan Sipe tells a very discombobulated tale of one manys very operatic struggle to cope with one of two things; the death of his wife, or the realization that he was never in love with the woman he was married to. The film begins to show, not why, but, all the ifs in Davis life.
At times, do not get me wrong, Valles film is nothing short of emotional. But the emotions cannot be ignored to being very manipulative, using scenes of loss and confusion to justify erratic behaviour of characters whose backstories are mostly absent to us. For one, Davis, we come to the understanding early, suffers from common emotional displays of affection and genuine love, yet, without spoiling the ending of the film, does offer many questions to the audiences. Why does he choose a path of destruction for answers? What are his obsessions with others? Why is he fascinated with certain people and not others? The film, which is suppose to be a very realistic, post-trauma film humanizing the loss and pain people feel during times of distress and disbelief, becomes a very segregated film about the pains and struggles about real people, living very real lives, doing very cinematically pleasing things. One of my biggest peeves with the film is showing too much about the stress and grief of Davis loss,and less with the understanding why he is like this, who he was before and what he was like when he was married.
Among his loss, Davis begins a courtship with a vending machine early on, well, maybe not with the machine itself, but with the people behind the operating and handling of the vending machine services. After a slew of personal letters that are suppose to help him express his emotions on paper, Davis begins writing personal complain letters to Champion Vending due to the lack of delivery of his M&Ms ten prior to his wifes death.
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