Christina Jefferds, 45, of Arlington, was a mother and a grandmother to a 4-month-old girl, Sanoah Huestis, who also died with her in the mudslide. (Photo: Northwest Smile Design.com)

Linda L. McPherson, 69, of Arlington, a former head librarian in Darrington, was sitting next to her husband, Gary Mac McPherson, 81, in their home, when the mudslide struck. He survived. (Photo: Obit)

Stephen A. Neal, 55, of Darrington, a plumber, was installing a water heater in a customers home on Steelhead Drive when the mudslide hit Saturday.

William E. Welsh, 66, of Arlington. An electrician, Welsh was going to meet Steve Neal (listed here) to help install a water heater at the home of Amanda Lennick on Steelhead Drive. (Photo: Breakingskagit.com)

Kaylee B. Spillers, 5, of Arlington. Her 4-year-old brother, Jacob, was rescued by helicopter on the day of the mudslide. Her mother was out of the area and survived. But her father, Billy Spillers, her 2-year-old sister Brooke and a 13-year-old stepbrother Jovan Mangual are missing. (Photo: Facebook)

Natasha Huestis holding her 4-month-old baby daughter Sanoah, who was killed in the mudslide near Oso Saturday. Natasha also lost her mom in the disaster. (Photo courtesy of family)

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Scald injuries affect all ages. Young children and the elderly are most vulnerable, which is why Harris County Emergency Corps (HCEC) wants to provide you with information on scald injury prevention.

Annually in the United States and Canada, over 500,000 people receive medical treatment for burn injuries. Roughly half of these injuries are scalds. Most burns occur in the home, usually in the kitchen or bathroom. Scalds can be prevented through increased awareness of scald hazards and by making simple environmental or behavioral changes. These include providing a kid-safe zone while preparing and serving hot foods and beverages, and lowering the water heater thermostat to deliver water at a temperature not to exceed 120 degrees.

Scald injuries are painful and require prolonged treatment. They may result in lifelong scarring and even death. Prevention of scalds is always preferable to treatment and can be accomplished through simple changes in behavior and the home environment.

Although anyone can sustain a scald burn, certain people are more likely to be scalded - infants, young children, older adults and people with disabilities. These high risk groups are also more likely to require hospitalization, suffer complications and experience a difficult recovery says Dr. George Kiss, medical director for HCEC. Most burn injuries occur in the persons own home and the vast majority of these injuries could have easily been prevented.

Tap water scalds are often more severe than cooking-related scalds. The American Burn Association recommends the following simple safety tips to decrease the risk to yourself and those you love from tap water scalds. Set home water heater thermostats to deliver water at a temperature no higher than 120 degrees Fahrenheit/48 degree Celsius.

An easy method to test this is to allow hot water to run for three to five minutes, and then test with a candy, meat or water thermometer. Adjust the water heater and wait a day to let the temperature drop. Re-test and re-adjust as necessary.

Provide constant adult supervision of young children or anyone who may experience difficulty removing themselves from hot water on their own. Gather all necessary supplies before placing a child in the tub, and keep them within easy reach. Fill tub to desired level before getting in. Run cold water first, and then add hot. Turn off the hot water first. This can prevent scalding in case someone should fall in while the tub is filling. Mix the water thoroughly and check the temperature by moving your elbow, wrist or hand with spread fingers through the water before allowing someone to get in.

Install grab bars, shower seats or non-slip flooring in tubs or showers if the person is unsteady or weak. Avoid flushing toilets, running water or using the dish- or clothes washer while anyone is showering.

Install anti-scald or tempering devices. These heat sensitive instruments stop or interrupt the flow of water when the temperature reaches a pre-determined level and prevent hot water that is too hot from coming out of the tap.

Cooking-related scalds are also easy to prevent. Some things you can do to make your home safer from cooking-related burns include: Establish a kid zone out of the traffic path between the stove and sink where children can safely play and still be supervised. Keep young children in high chairs or play yards, a safe distance from counter- or stovetops, hot liquids, hot surfaces or other cooking hazards.

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Last year, the Portland Water District announced the creation of a grant program that offers free water bottle-filling fountains to local entities. Twenty-six applications for grants were received, and the Board of Trustees awarded four water bottle filling stations to Saint Josephs College in Standish), the YMCA in Portland, Portland Transit Authority Portland, and Greely High School in Cumberland.

Saint Josephs College is the first recipient to install the station. The filling station in the busy Harold Alfond Center was fully operational as of Jan. 10. (In the 2012-2013 academic year more than 70,000 visitors used the facility.)

We are fortunate in Greater Portland to have a superb public water supply, stated Portland Water District board President Guy Cote. With these grants, we want to promote the areas great tap water and encourage others to help expand access to it.At Saint Josephs College, the Eco-Reps, a student group that promotes sustainable behavior, has embraced the fountain and is encouraging its use by subsidizing branded water bottles and T-shirts.

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Jon Horton leads the way through thick brush that covers an old city parks trail near Costilla Street. It's a hot summer day, and the shade of the trees and breeze off Shooks Run Creek provide a welcome respite. The area almost feels like a secret garden.

But a few steps in, the problems with this section of city parks, private and railroad property make themselves clear. Old clothes clog the creek, and by the time the trail dead-ends at an old stone railroad bridge, the trash is everywhere: clothes, broken TVs, shopping carts, decaying mattresses, tires.

There are campsites, too. Some are just mattresses; others tents, including one with a stroller sitting outside it. There are even primitive shelters made of branches and brush spread out across this yellow plain that runs behind the Lowell neighborhood and the downtown Police Operations Center.

Emerging from their shelters, people stare at us some curiously, a few aggressively. Horton, a 73-year-old bear of a man with an impressively bushy white mustache, leans down to my ear. If it makes me feel any better, he says, he has a gun.

It does.

This is Horton's regular walk. A disabled Vietnam vet, he lives nearby in subsidized housing.

"I volunteer to accompany people in my building to take walks with me, but their faces turn pale," he says. "It is considered a very dangerous place."

He isn't fazed. He was homeless once himself, and he feels for others, especially veterans, who have ended up on the streets. He's even built a rapport with some of the people here. But he doesn't care for the garbage that sullies the landscape and likely attracts vermin.

The vacant property, much of which is owned by 78-year-old Tom Doxey of Penrose, has been a problem as long as Tom Wasinger, Colorado Springs' Code Enforcement supervisor, can remember. It was cleaned fairly recently, but Doxey says it doesn't take long for the garbage and campers to return.

Until 2001, Doxey used the property to store materials for his asphalt company. But even in those days, he says, people would come here late at night, cut the fences, and dump their junk. Over the years, Doxey says, he's tried various barricades, even concrete blocks that weighed thousands of pounds, only to have them moved or destroyed.

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Applications for the Home Beautification Grants from Portage Community Revitalization Corporation (PCRC) are being accepted for the 2014 program until March 31.

Homeowners and rental property owners can apply for funding support to help with projects such as painting, siding, windows, doors, landscaping and front steps and walkways. Grants are made possible through the Neighbourhoods Alive! program.

Homeowners may apply to PCRC for a grant of up to $2,500 for exterior repairs or upgrades that provide a visual improvement to the home and neighbourhood. Homeowners must own and live in the home within the City of Portage la Prairie and have a total annual household income of less than $50,000.

Rental property owners may apply for a grant of up to $1,000 and the owner must provide matching funds. The property rental property owners apply for must be within the City of Portage la Prairie and there is a limit of three properties per landlord.

Applications are available online at http://www.PortageCRC.com or at the PCRC office at Unit B, 56 Royal Road N, as well as RONA, McMunn & Yates, the Public Library and City Hall.

For more information contact Mary Lynn Moffat at 240-PCRC (7272) or email m.moffat@PortageCRC.com.

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On the way to class, students may soon pass an orchard lush with fresh fruit, ripe for the picking.

Conceived by Neil Brown, senior in chemical engineering, and UT alumnus Chris Weller, the Big Orange Orchard would establish a series of edible, self-sustaining gardens across campus; the entire Knoxville community would be welcome to munch. Tuesday, the Student Government Association Senate passed a resolution in unanimous support of this concept, placing the project under the jurisdiction of an SGA committee on environment and sustainability. Their next steps? Finalize the design, calculate a total budget and present the proposal to Facilities Services for final approval.

Also working to evaluate student support, landscape architecture students presented orchard design ideas for McClung Plaza and the green space beside it. While Brown and Weller will likely combine the designs along with their own ideas for the final presentation, Julianna Burchett, junior in environmental science, believes the project will help showcase UT's efforts to 'Make Orange Green.'

"UT has continuously said that they're pushing for sustainability," Burchett said. "It's such a sustainable campus, and yet we appear relatively barren of really sustainable projects compared to other campuses. Speaking from the aesthetic side, UT was named one of the ugliest campuses.

"If we do this, we won't be on the top 10 list of ugliest campuses. It'll make the campus a beautiful place to be."

If the orchard cannot be placed along main walkways in its first year, Brown and Weller plan to pursue other options, like space on the Agriculture Campus or near Project V.E.G.G.I.E.'s current garden next to the Andy Holt parking garage.

Ideally, the gardens will be designed, planted and cultivated solely through UT students and staff. Throughout the year, students will be welcome to participate in upkeep.

"I think in the past UT has really called upon outside developers and organizers to come in and make changes," Burchett said. "This project is internal to UT."

Brown estimates the undertaking will require three years of maintenance labor on two sites, amounting to $36,000 not including the salaries of maintenance employees.

"This is better than sustainable," Brown said. "It's regenerative, it's putting something there like it used to be before humans came and knocked it down."

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In an email sent out to faculty and staff on March 25, President Gary Ransdell announced that there will be a reorganization of administrators for the coming school year.

This decision was made after John Osborne, vice president for Campus Services and Facilities, announced he will retire at the end of the spring semester. Ransdell said Osborne's vacancy will not be filled. Money that would have previously gone toward his salary, roughly $130,000, will instead be allocated toward the impending budget cut.

"Effective upon Johns retirement in May, we will move all of our Auxiliary services under Ann Mead, the Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration," Ransdell said in the email.

Otheradministrativepositions will be shifted around as well.

Ransdell also announced in the email that the state Senate approved a different budget than the state House of Representatives.

"We were pleased that the Senate version eliminated the 2.5 percent cut to Higher Education ($1.8million from WKU)," Ransdell said in the email.

The Senate's version of the budget, however, eliminates spending for capital projects, which would have gone to renovating the rest of the science campus at WKU. Funds for the renovation of the Thompson Complex Center Wing would be cut entirely.

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Whether you're installing crown molding or simple quarter-round trim, the way you trim your molding can affect how well it fits together on the wall. Poorly cut molding can result in gaps where pieces of molding meet, especially in corners and around doorways. To cut and install your molding correctly, be precise in your cuts, and once the molding is installed, check it periodically to make sure the piece aren't beginning to separate from each other.

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Trail Clearing/fallen tree removal ~ so I can ride!
So I packed up the chainsaw and went and cleared the path!!!

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Madrone Tree removal - Husqvarna T540 xp
We remove a lightning struck Madrone tree, with some careful rigging. Use HD setting.

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