By Pablo J. Sinz

City councilman, David Alvarez, in San Ysidro announcing the city approved funds for a long awaited sidewalk for the sudents of San Ysidro High.

The community of San Ysidro is celebrating albeit with some reservationsthe announcement of the securing of the final funding needed to complete a sidewalk that would connect San Ysidro with its high school.

The sidewalk would provide a safe way for San Ysidro High School students to walk to and from school. Currently, and since the school opened in 2002, students walk to school on a dirt path along a steep canyon, along a winding road.

San Diego City Council District 8 Councilmember David Alvarez made the announcement of the final funds at a press conference in San Ysidro on Wednesday, June 18th, where he was joined by community residents and leaders.

A sidewalk in this location is vital to the students that use this route to go to and from school, Alvarez said. The community has been advocating for the construction of this sidewalk for far too long. For the entire time I have been in office, this has been and continues to be one of my top priorities.

But this isnt the first time San Ysidro has heard this news. In the past, other District 8 representatives, from Ralph Inzunza to Ben Hueso have tried to build the sidewalk, according to Hector Espinoza, principal at San Ysidro High School.

This is the third or fourth time Ive heard this in 13 years, Espinoza said. Ive heard it before.

A safe pedestrian pathway for students to walk to school has been promised by San Diego city officials and area developers since the San Ysidro High School opened in 2002.

Espinoza said that the major difference is that this time, Alvarez is working with Mayor Kevin Faulconer to make this sidewalk a reality.

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DEER LODGE Replacement of the historic bridge on Deer Lodges Main Street over Cottonwood Creek is scheduled to begin July 7.

Montana Department of Transportation officials and Stacey Otte, representing Bauer and Buck Construction of Helena, met with Powell County commissioners, city officials and local residents Wednesday to explain the construction schedule and plans for easing the potential impact on local businesses.

Heres the plan:

A two-way traffic/pedestrian detour route around the construction site will divert traffic west on Rainbow Avenue then south on Second Street to Missouri Avenue. However, westbound traffic on Higgins Avenue will have northbound access to Main Street. After local business people and others expressed concern, officials agreed that business access signage will be placed at the corner of Second and Cottonwood. also. No parking or access is permitted from California Avenue to just north of Higgins Avenue.

Safety first, Otte said. Cooperation from the community in avoiding the construction limits is essential to a safe and productive project. We encouragedrivers to slow down andbe aware ofincreased pedestrian traffic.

Construction work, expected to be completed by Oct. 8, includes removal of the existing bridge structure, excavation, installation of a new water main, drainage and electric utilities, installation of the new bridge structure with asphalt overlay, stream restoration, retaining wall, sidewalk, curb and gutter, signing and epoxy striping.

Main Street is state Highway 275 and is maintained by the highway department while bridges in the county are the responsibility of the commissioners. Cost of the project is $1.6 million. A FEMA grant is paying for construction of the bridge, MDOT paid for design and engineering. The city will replace an eight-inch city water main.

Monthly project status meetings are planned and will be announced.

The contractor contact number for comments, questions and/or complaints during construction is 406-565-8855. Calls will be answered 7 a.m.-7 p.m. or working hours; calls outside of working hours will be returned the next working day leave name and number on the message.

Pat Hansen may be reached via email at phansen@blackfoot.net

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BY MATT MENCARINI mmencarini@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5529

DIXON Work on the downtown streetscape project has entered its sixth week.

Peoria Avenue, between First and Third streets, will be closed as construction crews work on finishing curb and gutter work, sidewalks, driveways, light pole bases and water service installations, among other elements, according to the engineering firms.

Click here to see a map of the streetscape work and closed roads.

According to the firms,Wendler Engineering Services Inc. andWillett Hofmann & Associates:

First Street, from Hennepin to Galena avenues, will remain closed. Crews are expected to do sidewalk and brick work, with pavement installation beginning mid-week.

The south side eastbound lanes ofFirst Street, between Ottawa and Crawford avenues, will be closed for water main installation. The construction company will work with KSB Hospital to have access to the Commerce Towers parking lot at all times.

Ottawa Avenue, from Second to First streets, will be closed for continued work on a retaining wall.

Additional temporary road closure may be needed, according to the engineering firms.

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BY MATT MENCARINI mmencarini@saukvalley.com 800-798-4085, ext. 5529

DIXON Work on the downtown streetscape project has entered its sixth week.

Peoria Avenue, between First and Third streets, will be closed as construction crews work on finishing curb and gutter work, sidewalks, driveways, light pole bases and water service installations, among other elements, according to the engineering firms.

Click here to see a map of the streetscape work and closed roads.

According to the firms,Wendler Engineering Services Inc. andWillett Hofmann & Associates:

First Street, from Hennepin to Galena avenues, will remain closed. Crews are expected to do sidewalk and brick work, with pavement installation beginning mid-week.

The south side eastbound lanes ofFirst Street, between Ottawa and Crawford avenues, will be closed for water main installation. The construction company will work with KSB Hospital to have access to the Commerce Towers parking lot at all times.

Ottawa Avenue, from Second to First streets, will be closed for continued work on a retaining wall.

Additional temporary road closure may be needed, according to the engineering firms.

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British video artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen is best known of late for the movie "12 Years a Slave," which won the Academy Award for best picture this year and earned him an Oscar nomination for directing. A much earlier and more experimental work by McQueen, however the video installation "Drumroll" stars in a new exhibit opening at MOCA Pacific Design Center on Saturday.

"Drumroll," which McQueen shot in 1998, is a triptych of video images depicting an oil drum rolling down a midtown Manhattan sidewalk, seen from cameras positioned inside the drum. As it bounces along 56th, 57th and 58th streets, the drum captures snippets of sidewalk, cars, foot traffic and bits of McQueen himself. Some of the individual shots are beautifully abstract, a whirl of muted color and geometric patterns. Together, the images covey an urban journey that is both intimate and disconnected at once.

The Museum of Contemporary Art's Bennett Simpson curated the exhibit. He called "Drumroll," which earned McQueen the 1999 Turner Prize for contemporary art, "a portrait of an experience of the city, and its questions go to how and who we are."

The exhibition also includes excerpts from McQueen's 1998 photography series, "Barrage," depicting portraits of 56 Parisian gutter barriers.

"Steve McQueen: Drumroll" runs through Sept. 21 at MOCA Pacific Design Center, 8687 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood; (213) 626-6222, http://www.moca.org

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What do you get if you cross a cat with a theremin? Probably something a little bit like Mew. Mew is a furry interactive sound installation that purrs and responds to strokes with meow sounds that distort according to where your hands are. Press too hard and Mew will start to squeal and hiss.

Mew was developed as part of a collaborative project between students on different courses -- Design Products, Information Experience Design and Visual Communication -- at the Royal Collage of Art in London. The brief? To create a digital and physical object that responds sonically to people and its surroundings.

Emily Groves, Jackie Ford, Jakub Pollag and Paula Arntzen teamed up to create Mew, which is about the size of a window box (for plants) on stilts. The top of the box is covered with a furry material. As you approach the box, it starts to emit a purring sound in order to encourage passersby to draw near. If you stroke the fur, it will emit distorted meow sounds that are manipulated by the direction and sequence of your hand movements. There are four sound zones on the surface and the sound effect applied to the meow is dependent on how you move between them. So if, for example, you move your hand from one end in a straight line to the other, it will distort the sound in one way, but if you rub your hand back and forth over one half it will distort the sound in another way. These are played through speakers inside the box. Although the sound starts quite cat-like, as you can hear in the video it quickly starts morphing into more of a dinosaur-from-Jurassic-Park-esque squeal when you apply more pressure. Groves told Wired.co.uk that the sounds in the video are quite "violent" and that they've "tamed it down a bit to make it sound more like a cat".

Conductive thread sewn through the fur and connected to capacity sensors dictate the distortion of the meow sounds, while pressure sensors embedded in foam below the fur indicate when Mew has been stroked too forcefully. The components are run through an Arduino and controlled via a Mac Mini running a program called Max which takes care of the sound.

The idea came about when the aforementioned team was playing around with a gutter cleaner -- like a large pipe cleaner. "It was like a cat, but not a cat," explains Groves to Wired.co.uk. "We wanted to recreate that -- making an object that has lots of qualities of something but also having completely opposite qualities. It doesn't look anything like a cat, but it sounds like one."

Groves explains that they chose a grey fur for Mew because it most closely matched the colour of the conductive thread that they were using. "The thread looks awful in other types of fur," she says. As for the form factor: "We wanted it to be hand height but also look a bit awkward. At one point we wanted to give it a curved back but we thought it would influence the way you stroke it too much."

Mew has been shown a few times in public already and Groves said that the reaction has been very positive. "Overall it just makes people laugh."

"Some people have been a bit shocked or scared, but others have been putting their face on it! People generally warm to it and treat it a bit like a pet."

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Spring Hill officials are committing additional tap fees for the completion of Commonwealth Drive, provided the contractor completes the project by mid-October.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted 7-0 to approve about $16,500 in additional tap fees to Tennessee Contractors Inc. to push forward the completion of Commonwealth Drive with the caveat that Tennessee Contractors execute the agreement by July 18. The board also required Tennessee Contractors to have the project complete by Oct. 16.

Mayor Rick Graham was not at the Monday meeting.

Alderman Chad Whittenburg proposed an amendment that failed 5-2 to not increase any tap fees for the project. Only Whittenburg and Alderman Eliot Mitchell voted for the amendment.

Whittenburg said contributing additional fees is a tough pill to swallow for him because the city has already contributed $343,000 in tap fees and seen deadlines on the project past.

Our $343,000 could already be pulled away because the contract wasnt met, he said. I have problems contributing additional money because we (the city) are going to pave the road, stripe it and then all the people who were originally partners in the game are going to benefit from it. There is still money to be made by every party in this agreement, regardless of what we add.

Alderman Susan Zemek said Commonwealth Drive is too important to the future of the city. She said it is hard for emergency crews to get to the Longview Recreation Center and elementary school on Commonwealth Drive because the road is not complete.

Though his amendment failed, Whittenburg said he wants to see the city hold contractors more accountable in the future.

I understand there were some unfortunate circumstances, but we as a board on several other instances have established a precedence that we do not hold consultants and contractors accountable for the contractors we write with them, Whittenburg said. At some point, we have to start being accountable The economy was not what set this in motion. Really, it was (Tennessee Contractors) not having it done by the prior agreement

The city originally pledged about $343,000 in tap fees to Tennessee Contractors when construction of the final phase of the roadway was originally proposed, which would allow the contractor to recoup money spent by getting permit discounts when water and sewer is installed to developments along the road.

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One of the top rated aluminium gutter installer in the world, bespokeguttering.co.uk, has confirmed that it will begin a rigorous expansion of its workforce in the coming weeks in a move the provider says will help serve its ever expanding customer base better.

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Although the provider has remained one of the few roofing experts focusing most of its attention on installing gutters, the extent it has gone in serving a significant portion of homeowners effectively and flexibly has been termed by many analysts in the market as outstanding. The planned expansion of the firms workforce is expected to be done and dusted by the end of July and the new staff will be immediately appointed to begin work as soon as possible. All the same, bespokeguttering.co.uk has assured its customers that all standards of integrity will be observed in the recruitment.

This is to ensure that only the best and capable professionals join the company. Getting quality aluminium gutters is not hard as many home owners across the world tend to think. Industry analysts note that a number of high profile aluminium gutters installers have emerged over the years and the role bespokeguttering.co.uk has played in promoting quality services is indeed exceptional. For more details on its services please feel free to visit http://www.bespokeguttering.co.uk.

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GOSHEN Those used to parking in the subdivision of Larimer Greens and condos on Goshens west side will have to find somewhere else to park during the Celebrate America festivities celebrating the 4th of July.

Goshen Board of Works and Safety members Monday approved a request by Goshen Police Chief Wade Branson for a temporary order for no parking in the Larimer Greens subdivision from 8 a.m. to midnight July 6.

According to Branson, the temporary order will include all city streets in the area encompassed by the following roadways but not including: Berkey Avenue, Green Road, Plymouth Avenue and Indiana Avenue.

The request is to allow parking on one side of the street but not the other as determined by the Goshen Street Department, Branson said. The reason for the request is to ensure fire and other emergency vehicles can access these roads during the Celebrate America event and fireworks. It is anticipated that a very large number of vehicles will be attending this event. By limiting the parking to one side, we can have a path for fire and medical access to neighbors and visitors to the event.

The request was approved unanimously.

Other business

In other business, the board approved:

A request by John and Linda Sorg, 817 S. Seventh St., Goshen, for participation in the citys sidewalk and curb 50/50 program to replace their sidewalk and curb. Total cost for the project is $1,680, with the citys portion set at $840.

An agreement with Tractor Supply Co. to remove an inoperable and unrepairable private fire hydrant on the companys property, 2323 Lincolnway East, Goshen. City workers will then install a new public fire hydrant on an existing public main located just south of the companys property. All work will be done at the citys expense.

An agreement with Shane McKerchie where McKerchie will serve a minimum of six years as a paramedic with the Goshen Fire Department. Pursuant to this agreement, McKerchie would receive a one-time bonus in the amount of $7,500. McKerchie was hired by the department on May 14, 2012, and received his paramedic certification on May 19, 2014.

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