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Villa Park, IL (PRWEB) January 30, 2015
Oly-Ola Edgings, a leading producer of premium grade 100% recycled commercial paver restraint and landscape edging products, announces the formation of Oly-Ola Global. This global division is dedicated to serving landscape architect and contractor customers around the world.
Oly-Ola Global integrates the North American expertise of Oly-Ola Edgings, Inc. with additional global capabilities, including recommending edgings for specific applications, referring landscape architects/contractors to our international distribution network, providing air and ocean rates from reliable freight forwarders, overseeing foreign shipments, and preparing international documents.
Over the years we have seen a dramatic increase in our international business. We opened up a division dedicated to handling the needs of our international customers in order to give them the same high level of specialized service they would receive in the states, explains Aymie Clayton, vice president of Oly-Ola Edgings.
Oly-Ola Global can be reached by email at global(at)olyola(dot)com or visit http://olyola.com/worldwide-ship.php
For over 35 years, Oly-Ola Edgings, Inc., headquartered in Villa Park, Illinois, USA, has produced the most complete line of 100% recycled polyethylene/vinyl edging and paver restraints in the landscape industry. Oly-Ola promises the industrys strongest comprehensive domestic guarantee: 100% Plus for 20 Years Includes All Freight and Labor. Their shipping policy is hassle-free and orders are delivered by the industrys fastest shipping. They also maintain a large inventory 12 months a year, so there are no back orders. Oly-Ola has an international distributor network and supports many national and state landscape organizations. For more information, please call or write:
Oly-Ola Edgings, Inc. 124 E. St. Charles Road, Villa Park, IL 60181 Phone: (800) 334-4647 Fax: (630) 833-0816 Website: http://www.olyola.com E-mail: edgings(at)olyola(dot)com
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Reconstruction slated to start this summer
BY DARCIE MOORE Times Record Staff
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RESIDENTS EXAMINE PLANS for reconstruction of North Street this summer following a presentation on the project Wednesday at City Hall. City officials and Jennifer Claster, a landscape architect for Wright-Pierce, said now is the time to hear concerns from residents and learn details about this portion of the road before plans are finalized. DARCIE MOORE / THE TIMES RECORD BATH
City officials and a landscape architect with Wright-Pierce unveiled plans for reconstruction of North Street this summer at an hour-long meeting Wednesday night in the basement of City Hall.
The first phase of the project will stretch from the Five Corners intersection (where North, Oak Grove and Lincoln streets and Congress Avenue come together) to High Street. A second phase, anticipated to be completed in 2016, would continue the reconstruction further to Washington Street.
Peter Owen, Baths public works director, said now is the time to hear feedback from residents and learn about subsurface issues specific to their properties. There were at least 40 residents attending the meeting.
JENNIFER CLASTER Wright-Pierce landscape architect Jennifer Claster said North Street is part of a city-designated primary bike route between the Sagadahoc Bridge and West Bath, and also part of the interim onroad route for the East Coast Greenway and U.S. Bike Route 1A. This route will connect to a local and more regional trail that will link the Androscoggin River Bicycle and Pedestrian Path to the Kennebec River.
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A FINANCIALLY stricken, rundown, rabbit-infested farm was Susan Campbells introduction to life in the country.
Susan Campbell at her Benalla home, which she moved to last year after having spent decades at Byawatha. Picture: JOHN RUSSELL
A FINANCIALLY stricken, rundown, rabbit-infested farm was Susan Campbells introduction to life in the country.
The Toorak-raised landscape architect could be forgiven for wishing to return to the city, but instead she accepted those challenges and her successful fightback is reflected in todays honours.
She has received an Order of Australia Medal for service to conservation and the environment.
Its a long way from 1966 when she and her husband Sandy bought a property at Byawatha, near Wangaratta.
It was rundown and rabbit-ridden, but it was the only one we could afford and it was somewhere we thought we could make a difference, Mrs Campbell said.
It wasnt making much of a profit, there was half a sheep to an acre, and it was looked down upon by the neighbours.
It had a sign on the gate saying all shooters, please come in when we bought it because of the rabbits.
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Divisive: An impression of the Barangaroo Central Waterfront Promenade with the disputed trees.
Sydney's landscape architects are up in arms about the a decision to plant more than 100 American honey locust trees along the western promenade at Barangaroo a species that has been classified as a weed by the NSW Department of Primary Industries.
The NSW chapter of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects has written to the Premier, Mike Baird, asking him to intervene to stop the planting of the avenue of honey locusts, also known as Gleditsiatriacanthos. The planting is imminent.
"This is just such a significant site. This project really should reflect the character of Sydney and Sydney Harbour. It is a chance to showcase our wonderful native species," James Grant, president of the Institute and principal at JMD Design said.
"It will be used by thousands of tourists. A beautiful fig or an angophora would be a much better choice. Using species that are classified as weeds sends absolutely the wrong signal," he said.
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While the Headland Park at the tip of Barangaroo is being planted with native plants selected because they are indigenous to the Sydney Harbour region, the walkway that runs from the edge of the office area in South Barangaroo will be shaded by honey locusts.
The trees, native to America, have straight trunks and dark green, relatively light foliage. They are also deciduous, unlike most native species.
The Barangaroo Delivery Authority told Fairfax Media its choice of trees for the high profile promenade had been based on the design briefs established by world-renowned landscape architect, Peter Walker of PWP, based in California. The brief required that the tree species"emphasise the civic contrast between the foreshore promenade and the naturalistic planting of Barangaroo Point and to suit the western foreshore locations. It also specified deciduousness, which ruled out most native species.
"Selection of the trees was by PWP working with a local expert horticulturist," a spokesman for the BDA said.
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Working outdoors: Landscape architect Katherine Simmons enjoys the community perspective that drives local government.
Design of open space around buildings and infrastructure should not be an afterthought it should be considered at the start of projects, the principal landscape architect at Wyong Shire Council, Katherine Simmons, says.
"Landscape architects should be involved right from the site planning and analysis stage of a projectso there is a good balance of professionals involved in urban design," she says.
Simmons and her team at Wyong take a systematic approach to the development and integration of open space in the New South Wales central coast municipality and it has brought them national recognition.
A redesign of land at Blue Haven to form the multi-use Bamayi Reserve won a State Play Space award of excellence and a new park at Canton Beach, which is designed for use by children of all abilities, won a Playspace award in the 2014 Parks and Leisure Australia awards.
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Simmons, who studied landscape architecture at the University of New South Wales, says people in her profession are involved in the design of anything other than buildings. This can include urban and public space, areas around commercial buildings and along freeways and foreshore reserves.
She chose her degree in a quest for a profession that would allow her to pursue interests in art, design, science and the natural environment.
After working in consultancy in Australia and Britain, she worked for Newcastle and Lake Macquarie councils, discovering she enjoys the community perspective that drives local government.
When she joined the staff at Wyong eight years ago, she began work on an assessment of parks, playgrounds and open space in the area.
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Fashion designer Sarah-Jane Clarke and her landscape architect husband Dan Baffsky are kicking off what is widely anticipated to be a busy start to the year with the sale of their Vaucluse home.
Clarke, who with Heidi Middleton left the Sass & bide brand they co-founded last July, is hoping to trade up closer to the waterfront once she sells the 718-square-metre property.
An early-stage price guide of more than $6 million has been offered by Elliott Placks and Ashley Bierman, of Ray White Double Bay, ahead of the February 26 auction.
Sarah-Jane Clarke.
Formerly a duplex, it last traded a decade ago for $3.5 million but has been transformed since then into a five-bedroom sanctuary with a spacious parents' retreat, swimming pool and level lawn that manages both privacy and panoramic views to the city with all the style you'd expect from the creative couple.
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At least one member of the original committee that helped create the Moore County Veterans Memorial in Carthage thinks it is time to renew efforts to transform that area into a park.
Controversy erupted in the spring of 2012 when county officials disclosed that they had been approached by a company wanting to buy land next to the memorial for a Bojangles restaurant. Local veterans and veterans groups demanded that the county preserve land around the memorial and prevent development near it.
That summer, the county commissioners appointed the Veterans Memorial Advisory Committee to discuss the memorials future and how best to use the land around the site.
Meetings often resulted in clashes between county officials and veterans, ultimately leading to a stalemate over two competing plans to create a veterans park. That was in March 2013. The committee has not met since.
Last Tuesday, county commissioners dissolved the group. Board Chairman Nick Picerno, who proposed the action, said the county has no plans to do anything with that property. He called the committee an overreaction to a non-issue.
Rudy Hendrick, who served on the advisory committee and is secretary of the committee that led efforts to build the memorial in 2006, agreed that the advisory committee should be eliminated and that it was probably ill-fated from the start.
To me, it was a frustrating thing from the get-go, Hendrick said. I am not sure it was handled right. It was at a standstill. Daggers were being thrown in both directions.
But Hendrick said it is in the official minutes of a county commissioners meeting that nothing would be done until both sides are satisfied.
I am not going to be satisfied until it is developed into a park, she said.
Hendrick said supporters gathered signatures on petitions in support of developing the entire property into a veterans park. She said they have garnered about 6,000 signatures so far.
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