ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. -

The Fall Home Show is in its 19th year, but this weekend's event has plenty of new additions.

The event is at the Salem Civic Center on Saturday, September 20 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, September 21 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Hundreds of local and national vendors will showcase their products and services related to building, remodeling, decorating or improving your home, garden and life.

One new addition is the "Home Show University." Local home improvement professionals will hold 35-minute courses on everything from choosing the right contractor, flooring, buying generators and window replacement.

Another new part of the Fall Home Show is the art gallery, featuring top local artists with crafts that can put the perfect final touch on your home project.

This event is sponsored by the Roanoke Regional Home Builders Association. For more information, click here.

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ISHPEMING - Having waited for more than five years for information about when the motionless wind turbine in Ishpeming will be taken down and replaced with a working model, the company responsible for the turbine still can't provide a date the residents of Pioneer Bluff Apartments can expect to get some of their power from the wind.

Bryan Zaplitny, president and CEO of downstate Brighton-based Clean Green Energy, issued a press release in December entitled "Ishpeming Wind Turbine Not Forgotten," in which he said the company expected to bring the replacement model turbine to market sometime in 2014.

But in a prepared statement, CGE told The Mining Journal that it cannot yet say when the new, smaller turbine will be installed.

"We remain faithful to our plan to replace the prototype with a fully functional WIND-e20 wind turbine following its completion as well as provide Pioneer Bluff with free power from WIND-e20 for the first five years of production," the statement noted. "Due to the complexities of building the manufacturing assembly line we cannot yet provide a date for the installation but we will provide an update as the build date grows near."

The 162-foot tower, which can be seen from many places around the city, has in the past been controversial for the city and the Ishpeming Housing Commission, which owns the Pioneer Bluff Apartments. Some residents have called the motionless turbine an eyesore and the city council has on at least one occasion called for its removal.

CGE has said the current prototype turbine is operational, though it has never operated, and was determined to be too expensive and labor-intensive to produce and install or to run on a large scale, with blades that would likely fail.

"We are appreciative of the Ishpeming community's willingness to host the early prototype and we have committed one of (the) earliest available WIND-e20 turbines for installation at the Ishpeming Pioneer Bluff site," CGE's press release states.

The smaller, 105-foot, 65 kwh WIND-e20 model is expected to correct the flawed design issues of the prototype, and can be installed much more easily using a hydraulic control system and a backhoe rather than in a protracted process involving large cranes.

In December, CGE entered into a partnership with metal fabricator and military contractor Burtek Enterprises Inc., in which the downstate Chesterfield-based company will be CGE's strategic manufacturing and assembly partner for the WIND-e20. CGE said Burtek is currently designing the assembly line to manufacture the turbines.

"We have full confidence that their patented WIND-e20 will revolutionize the way people think about distributed power and we are committed to taking the time needed to get the details right," CGE said in the release. "The people of Ishpeming have a right to expect action on getting the new turbine installed."

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WINDOW UPDATE: The decision on the waiver for the Junior League was deferred three weeks on a 6-4 vote so that a mediator could be used to see if opposing side can reach an agreement. FOR MORE ON THIS DEBATE: GO TO THE JUMP:

SCHOOL UPDATE: As expected the vote for Jacksonville to separate from the Pulaski County School District was a runaway, 3,767 to 218.

In the Little Rock School District,both incumbents on the ballot were defeated.

ZONE 1

Incumbent Norma Jean Johnson 227 Joy C. Springer 483

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Incumbent Jody Carreiro 221 Jim Ross 379

Victories by Ross and Springer alter the current majority dynamic of the board significantly and particularly complicate matters for Superintendent Dexter Suggs.

Re school votes: I note that 1,000 of those Jacksonville voters didn't cast a vote in favor of the property tax millage, compared with the vote on the Jacksonville school separation. It's meaningless. No increase was on the ballot and the millage continues, approved or not. But it's a measure of something when people want their schools separated but don't necessarily want to vote taxes to support them. Overall, however, the millage was approved, which is unusual in Pulaski County.

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Maryland-based window company Window Nation has been steadily growing in recent years and has moved up on Remodeling Magazines Largest Contractors List this year from number 12 to number 11.

The 2014 Remodeling Magazines annual list is comprised of the nation's largest remodeling firms ranked by annual revenue. The magazine categorizes this groups list mostly by the exterior of homes, such as siding, windows, or roofing and bases the rankings not only on annual revenue, but also projected growth.

Window Nation placed 11th on the list, with the companys total revenue totaling $36,357,909 with a number of 6,490 jobs. Previously at number 12, they have expanded and seen steady, continuous growth in 2013 through this year.

On average, this years 170 replacement contractors on the list did 15 times as many jobs as full-service remodelers about 2,500 a piece, the magazine states. All told, these 170 companies racked up $2.41 billion in revenue in 2013, and theyre looking to grow that sum by 11.6% this year, hitting $2.69 billion.

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