Burlingame, CA (PRWEB) March 22, 2012

San Franciscos door replacement specialist, Alexander Window Company, serving the community since 1971, is excited to announce the addition of Simonton Lumera Fiberglass Hinged Doors to its showroom.

"These beautiful doors are exceptional in quality," Betty Martino of AlexanderWindow Company said. "They are stamped fiberglass doors that are low maintenance, energy efficient and available in ten exterior colors.

The Simonton Lumera Fiberglass Hinged Door system has all the design elements of original handmade doors with virtually none of the maintenance issues. Using fiberglass panels, composite jambs and even cellular PVC trim cuts down on maintenance and provides better thermal performance than wood or vinyl sliding patio doors, ensuring customers save on heating and cooling costs.

Lumera doors also help maximize light, privacy and space with blinds between the glass. They feature beautifully rugged and versatile hardware options in four colors. Privacy glass or grid options are available as well.

Simonton Windows and Doors is a market leader that continues to advance the designs of its windows and doors, while developing new products that meet today's unique economic, environmental and energy-related demands.

For more information about Simonton Lumera Fiberglass Hinged Doors or any of Alexander Window Company's products or services, call 650-373-3900, view the company on the web at http://www.alexanderco.com or visit 1322 Marsten Road in Burlingame.

About Alexander Window Company

Since 1971, Alexander Window Company has provided residents and businesses of the Peninsula and all of the San Francisco Bay Area with the very best in home windows and doors. As a family owned and operated business, Alexander Window Company offers window replacement services, window repairs, window installations, door installations and door replacements. Alexander Window Company carries products from the top window manufacturers in the country, including Anderson Windows and Doors, LBL Windows, Marvin Windows and Doors, Fleetwood, Milgard Windows, Simonton Windows, Pittsburgh-Corning Glass Block, Tru-Frame Garden Windows, and Velux Skylights.

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Venus and Jupiter have made a spectacular show in our night sky. Oddly, it is Venus that appears the largest to us because of its closeness to Earth.

Daytime has been spectacular, too, with temperatures into the 60s. I can't ever remember having daffodils in mid-March. Forsythia, cherries, and magnolias all have big buds and an occasional flower. I hope everything doesn't get blasted by a frost. It seems inevitable and probably "seasonally correct." I wonder if we will have an extra-hot summer as a result of such an early spring.

I came home one day last week to find a huge bouquet of pussy willow branches on my porch, the result of Linda Hearn's annual pruning. They were delivered by Laura Caruso and her daughter, Morgan, here for a few days with Linda and Glenn. The branches are arranged in an ironstone pitcher on a table in our sunroom, in front of windows looking out to, at the moment, a soft lavender sky above the rhododendron hedge that borders our woods. It looks like a Jane Freilicher painting and will probably become a Hermine Hull painting in short order.

We have a new resident in town. Griffin McQuillin Neago was born on March 13 at Martha's Vineyard Hospital. He is the son of Darcy Hodgson Neago and Jason Neago, baby brother of Tristan. Griffin is now at home on Tiasquam Road in the turquoise blue cottage that once belonged to his great-grandmother, Nancy Whiting. It's an easy walk or carriage ride to visit grandpa Tom Hodgson and Christine Gault, just up the now daffodil-lined path. Welcome, Griffin.

"Brava" to Heidi Schultz, who is announcing her new career as a proofreader and editor. As Town Clerk (she retired in 1995) this was part of her job, preparing town reports and other official reports and documents. An avid reader and Scrabble player, she knows about words and usage, so she has decided to offer her skills to budding authors, creative writers, and those who have to prepare reports. Contact her at 508-693-9417. She has a weekly classified ad in both papers under "Services."

I hope that all interested parties will read this in time to attend this afternoon's meeting at 2 pm at the Howes House. It will be a discussion of the up-coming year's school budget and proposed Up-Island School Meals Program. There will be time for questions, answers, and refreshments. Please come to hear their presentation and be informed.

The library will also be hosting a last pre-Annual Town Meeting forum on Monday, March 26, 5:30 pm, at the Howes House. It will give residents and voters an opportunity to see the latest designs for the proposed library addition. Architects, building committee members, trustees, friends, and foundation members will all be on hand. The project must be approved at both Town Meeting and on the ballot.

Another issue at this year's Town Meeting will be whether or not to reinstate dog-walking privileges at Lambert's Cove Beach this summer. The Friends of Lambert's Cove Beach will hold a meeting on this issue downstairs in the Howes House Monday evening following the library's meeting upstairs. It will begin at 7 pm. Pat Gregory will be on hand to moderate a discussion of the pros and cons. I know that people feel strongly about this, so hope everyone who is interested can attend.

Jackie Foster, feta cheese maker at Mermaid Farm, will be the featured speaker at a Slow Food Wine and Cheese gathering at Morning Glory Farm this Friday evening, March 23. She will show slides from her trip to Slow Cheese in Italy and visits with Italian cheese makers, and talk about her plans for the cheese cave she is working on at Mermaid Farm. There will be wines and artisanal cheeses from Italy, France, Spain, and New England. The event begins at 6 pm.

Come to Bee School this weekend, March 24 and 25. An Island-Grown Bees workshop will teach attendees about hive splits, managing swarms, and more. For more information, contact Randi Baird at dune@vineyard.net.

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All four lanes of Sherbrook Street between Elgin and William avenues will be closed to traffic for at least the next five days, after a retaining wall partially collapsed on Wednesday.

The Health Sciences Centre says the shoring at the site of the new women's hospital gave way at around 6 a.m. CT.

No one was injured, but the collapse damaged the southbound lanes of Sherbrook Street as well as the west sidewalk, according to the City of Winnipeg. As well, the west sidewalk has caved in as a result.

Hospital officials initially closed the two affected lanes to traffic, meaning drivers had only one northbound lane and one southbound lane. But shortly before 5:30 p.m., they announced that all four lanes will be closed for five days.

Officials with PCL, the contracting company working on the site, told reporters that a collapse like this is an extremely rare occurrence that may have been caused by heavy rainfall earlier this week.

Crews noticed on Tuesday that the retaining wall shifted by about 20 centimetres. Contracting officials said a full inspection had been planned for Wednesday.

Motorists are being urged to allow more travel time and to use Balmoral and Arlington streets as alternative routes.

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The following is a round-up of construction projects currently taking place throughout the City of Kirkland:

108th and 68th intersection improvements

The 108th and 68th intersection improvements project will install a westbound to northbound right turn lane and other improvements identified as a part of Sound Transits route timing improvements. These improvements will reduce congestion and allow the intersection to maintain the Citys desired level of service. Sidewalk and curb enhancements at all four corners of the intersection will improve pedestrian safety and maintain a safe school walk route.

Project Facts

Location: 108th Avenue NE and NE 68th Street

Funding Partners: City of Kirkland Capital Improvement Program, Sound Transit.

Project Timeline: The project is under construction and is expected to be complete by the end of June 2012.

Contact: Denise Pirolo, project engineer, at dpirolo@kirklandwa.gov or 425-587-3830

Sidewalk adjacent to Transit Center bus layover project

This project will build a sidewalk (connecting a gap) on the north side of Central Avenue just east of 6th Street where the Transit Center buses layover.

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SOUTH BEND Citing environmental health concerns, the county Board of Commissioners on Tuesday voted to veto an ordinance to rezone a piece of land on Indiana 23 to accommodate a retail development.

"I think we need to be sensitive about how we handle sewer in unincorporated areas of the county," Commissioner Bob Kovach, D-District 3, said after the meeting.

The water in the northeast part of the county, including much of Granger, already contains high amounts of nitrates because of the high concentration of septic systems in the area, according to the Health Department.

In an attempt to begin to address the problem, the Regional Water and Sewer District recently embarked on a $2.5 million sewer project in the Granger Business District.

In that environment, and on behalf of Frank Perri, KPS Concepts Inc. petitioned the county to rezone the property at 15684 Indiana 23 from Single Family District to Commercial District back in January.

Perri, a local developer, would like to construct a 9,000-square-foot retail building on the site, which sits on the south side of the road just east of Heritage Square.

Against the recommendation of the Area Plan Commission, and despite opposition from the county Health Department, the County Council approved the petition 9-0 March 13.

In opposing the petition, the plan commission cited the fact that the site does not have access to sewer or water, and that, as part of its comprehensive plan for the area, the city of Mishawaka does not intend to provide those services at this time.

"Therefore," the commission wrote in its report, "rezoning this property to commercial is premature at this time."

For its part, the Health Department expressed concern that the site, which totals about 2.15 acres, is too small to accommodate the type of septic system needed to support the proposed development.

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Tom Fedor/The Gazette Members of the Christian Life Center gather to celebrate the construction of their new church building with a ground breaking on the Ijamsville on Sunday. The church, based in Gaithersburg since 1974, has been housed at Damascus High School for about six weeks.

A church that has been holding services in a Damascus school building is beginning work on a new facility on 64 acres in Frederick County.

The Christian Life Center, based in Gaithersburg since 1974, has been housed at Damascus High School for about six weeks, according to the Rev. Ron Libby. He said the church sold its property to help pay for the new construction.

The high school has been a temporary fix for the 1,000 parishioners who attend each week, Libby said.

The congregation of the new Christian Life Center, at 3154 Green Valley Road in Ijamsville, broke ground Sunday. The church declined to say how much the new church cost. However, its website shows $1.6 million was raised to build the facility in 2008.

The new site is 64 acres up from 6 acres at the Gaithersburg site.

But the switch has challenges, Libby said. The church holds services from 10 a.m. to noon on Sundays at Damascus High School, 25921 Ridge Road in Damascus. The church must bring equipment to the school for services as its needed and dismantle it following the service.

Libby said the new church was needed to ease overcrowding at the churchs previous location, at 11800 Darnestown Road.

Itll be a state-of-the-art building, he said. It will be quite considerably larger. Our sanctuary was packed out down in Gaithersburg.

The churchs new 65,000-square-foot building will seat about 1,200 and includes an area for youth.

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The Mormon church is attempting to remake downtown Salt Lake City by opening the shopping mall portion of a $2 billion mixed-use space that spans two city blocks.

Church partner and retail operator Taubman Centers Inc. expect 50,000 visitors on Thursday, when City Creek Center's nearly 90 stores open.

City Creek Center has outdoor walkways, retractable glass roofs and a winding creek. Waterfalls, fountains and a trout pond are part of the village-like development, which includes condominiums and is joined by a pedestrian bridge over Main Street.

The residential towers were built by City Creek Reserve Inc., a for-profit firm owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The church is a multibillion-dollar organization with tentacles in business and real estate.

The church paid for City Creek Center with cash and says no member tithing was used. For the most part, it will be like other shopping malls, except that the stores close on Sundays _ the church wanted the day of peace for its nearby Temple Square.

It will be operated like Taubman Centers' other upscale malls in Los Angeles and Denver, said Robert Taubman, chairman, president and CEO of the Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based company. Two of the restaurants at the Salt Lake City mall will serve liquor, but there are no bars. Its anchors include Macy's, Nordstrom, Tiffany & Co. and the Swedish fashion chain H&M.

Built during the recession, which lowered construction costs, City Creek Center is the only large mall of its size _ around 700,000 square feet _ scheduled to open in the country this year, officials said.

"It's about the rebirth of this city and the fabric of downtown," said Robert Taubman, chairman, president and CEO of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Taubman Centers Inc., who said the design of City Creek Center was unique.

"We opened the mall to the sky and sunny weather that's here with these amazing retractable roofs," he said.

No other U.S. shopping center has retractable roofs, says Linda Wardell, City Creek Center's general manager.

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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif., March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Construction has commenced at the first village of the new ranch community of Rancho Mission Viejo, comprised of more than 17,000 acres of permanent open space and 6,000 acres of future residential and mixed-use development, according to Anthony R. Moiso, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rancho Mission Viejo, LLC.

Rancho Mission Viejo, Orange County's last working ranch, has been held in the O'Neill/Avery/Moiso family since 1882. Pursuant to a comprehensive County of Orange-approved open space preservation and land use management plan for the Ranch, approximately 75% will be preserved as part of a larger habitat conservation area known as The Reserve at Rancho Mission Viejo and 25% will be developed into multiple villages.

Combined with additional open spaces already dedicated by the Rancho Mission Viejo family, The Reserve will grow over time to nearly 21,000 acres. Ultimately, The Reserve will be combined with County-owned lands to form the 33,000-acre Southern Subregion Habitat Reserve, one of California's largest and most diverse habitat reserves.

"Our partners, DMB Associates, and all of us at Ranch Headquarters, are honored, proud and excited to make this announcement today," said Moiso. "For nearly fifty years, our family has kept our ranch intact, perpetuating our ranching and farming heritage while helping the region meet and manage its growth through the establishment of the planned communities of Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Las Flores, and Ladera Ranch. Today, with the start of construction at this new village on the Ranch and the phased enrollment of land into The Reserve at Rancho Mission Viejo, this legacy of land stewardship continues."

Multiple villages are planned to be developed on a total of 6,000 acres of the Ranch. Collectively, over the next two decades, these villages are expected to offer 14,000 homes (including 6,000 active adult residences) and five million square feet of non-residential uses. In addition, schools, parks and recreational facilities, shopping and employment centers will be developed, as well as an inter-connected system of arterial roadways and hiking/biking trails carefully integrated with some of the Ranch's agrarian spaces and natural habitat.

"Since 1882, our family has understood that the blessings of landownership are matched by our obligation to be a good neighbor and a responsible contributor to the community," said Moiso. "This culture of care has been at the heart of every community we've created. It is the foundation of the ongoing development of Rancho Mission Viejo."

The first village on the Ranch will be Sendero, currently scheduled to open in summer 2013. Encompassing approximately 690 acres and offering approximately 940 attached and detached homes and 200 apartment units, Sendero will include the gated active adult enclave of Gavilan, providing 285 single-level residences adjacent to a private clubhouse and recreational facilities. Among the amenities planned for all Sendero residents are a centrally located community hall, clubhouse and recreational core, a 15-acre community park, neighborhood parks, hiking/biking trails accessing Reserve trails and a County Regional hiking and biking trails network, a 10-acre retail plaza, fire station, and a child day care center.

Sendero and Gavilan homebuilders include Meritage Homes, Ryland Homes, SeaCountry Homes, Shea Homes, Standard Pacific Homes, The Pulte Group, TRI Pointe Homes, William Lyon Homes, and Western National Group.

"We are very enthusiastic to begin developing homes in Sendero on the Ranch," said Bert Selva, President and Chief Executive Officer of Shea Homes. "The superb, scenic and coastal-close south Orange County location combined with quick and easy proximity to both urban centers and regional parks, makes the Ranch a prime location for a new community in Orange County. We look forward to the grand opening of Sendero and Gavilan next year."

Rancho Mission Viejo and the first village of Sendero are located in the heart of south Orange County, just 2.3 miles from downtown San Juan Capistrano and five miles from the coastal attractions of San Clemente and Dana Point Harbor.

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