IONIA, Mich. UPDATE: After our story aired Tuesday night, the family informed us Jan passed away. FOX 17 expresses our condolences to the family.

Dealing with a sick loved one is tough enough, but when Jamie Helton got an overnight call from her mother Yvonne this past weekend from Ionia, she knew things had gotten worse.

Her father, Jan Wittenbach, is on hospice care at home after suffering a stroke in November, and his homes heater stopped working in the middle of the night.

When mom called (the repair company) frantic, she said, 'My husband is sick; hes on hospice; hes home; I cant let him get cold. So they knew from her frantic phone call that my dad was sick, said Jamie.

They called a local company they had used often in the past: Wilsons Heating, Cooling and Plumbing of Ionia.

Wilsons was unable to immediately come out because they were tied up with another job, but Jamie says they explained to her mother the best ways to keep the house warm until they could arrive, which was the next morning, Sunday.

Wilsons quickly got the familys home warming again, and then the same happened to Yvonne's heart.

So Mom had her card ready to pay them, and he said he wasnt charging her," Jamie explained to FOX 17. "And she said, Did you forget your machine? And he says, Nope, this ones on us. Dont worry about it.'"

On top of that, business owner Bill Wilson went to his car and brought back a bag of cookies that his wife and business partner Nancy had recently baked.

Jamie explained that her parents live on a limited income already, so the gesture was greatly appreciated.

There is a lot of high deductibles from their Medicare plan that they have to pay, and then end-of-life costs. It just took a ton of weight off my moms shoulders, it really did. It really made her cry; she sobbed for a while. I just wanted people in this town to know what a great deed they did and just how much we appreciate them.

The family has a GoFundMe set up to help with their unexpected expenses for anyone who wants to contribute.

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We are proud to receive this highly distinguished safety award, and we thank those who recognized our dedication to keeping team members safe.

ATLANTA (PRWEB) October 20, 2020

Plumb Works Inc, an Atlanta-based plumbing company and member of the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors Association, was awarded the Safety First! PHCC Contractor of the Year Award. Owner Jerome Sabol accepted the award October 1st at the Annual Business Meeting held during PHCCCONNECT2020.

The Safety First! Award recognizes PHCC contractors who take advantage of the resources Federated Insurance offers to effectively implement sound risk management practices. With hundreds of clients eligible each year to receive this prestigious honor, it was Plumb Works Inc.s vigilant approach to loss control that distinguished it amongst its peers.

Safety is our top priority at Plumb Works, owner Jerome Sabol stated. It is our job as a company to keep our employees safe while at work. This is why in addition to our company policy handbook and safety manual, each employee goes through an extensive training program that highlights our safety procedures.

Sabol and his employees embrace a culture of safety in their daily operations with safety signs throughout the workplace, including reminders about the importance of safe, no texting while driving signage. Sabol embraces safe driving as a priority by displaying a banner in his shop that reminds employees not to text and drive.

Additionally, the business frequently uses Federated Mutual Insurance Companys risk management resources and training to refine their policies, such as pre-screening and monitoring drivers motor vehicle records.

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This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements withinthe meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, andSection 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, that are basedon information currently available to management as well as management'sassumptions and beliefs as of the date such statements were made. Allstatements, other than statements of historical fact, included in this QuarterlyReport on Form 10-Q constitute forward-looking statements, including but notlimited to statements identified by forward-looking terminology, such as thewords "may," "will," "should," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "intend,""estimate" and "expect" and similar expressions. Such statements reflect ourcurrent views with respect to future events, based on what we believe arereasonable assumptions; however, such statements are subject to certain risksand uncertainties.In addition to the specific uncertainties discussed elsewhere in this QuarterlyReport on Form 10-Q, the risk factors set forth in Part I, "Item 1A. RiskFactors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019,and those set forth in Part II, "Item 1A. Risk Factors" of this report, if any,may affect our performance and results of operations. Should one or more ofthese risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions proveincorrect, actual results may differ materially from those in theforward-looking statements. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update orreview any forward-looking statements or information, whether as a result of newinformation, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

Business Overview

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and the Resulting Changes to our 2020 FinancialPerformance

Additionally, certain of our manufacturing facilities experienced short-termsuspensions of operations for COVID-19 employee health concerns during thesecond and third quarters of 2020.

Financial Overview

Third Quarter of 2020 Compared to Third Quarter of 2019 - Consolidated Results

The following table provides a summary of our financial results, includinginformation presented as a percentage of net sales:

Net sales increased 2% in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the thirdquarter of 2019 driven by higher sales volumes of 1% and favorable combinedprice and mix of 1%.

Gross Profit

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Losses (gains) and Other Expenses, Net

Losses (gains) losses and other expenses, net for the third quarter of 2020 and2019 included the following (in millions):

Net change in unrealized (gains) losses on unsettled futurescontracts

3.4 $ 2.2

Gains and Losses related to Natural Disasters

See Note 4 in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for additionalinformation.

Income from Equity Method Investments

Interest Expense, net

Third Quarter of 2020 Compared to Third Quarter of 2019 - Results by Segment

Residential Heating & Cooling

Net sales increased 13% in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the thirdquarter of 2019. Sales volumes increased 11% and combined price and mixincreased 2%.

Commercial Heating & Cooling

Net sales decreased 18% in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the thirdquarter of 2019. Sales volumes declined 15% and mix was unfavorable 3%.

Refrigeration

The following table presents our Refrigeration segment's net sales and profitfor the third quarter of 2020 and 2019 (dollars in millions):

Corporate and Other

Year-to-Date through September 30, 2020 Compared to Year-to-Date throughSeptember 30, 2019 - Consolidated Results

The following table provides a summary of our financial results, includinginformation presented as a percentage of net sales:

For the Nine Months Ended September 30,

Net Sales

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Losses (gains) and Other Expenses, Net

Losses (gains) and other expenses, net for the nine months ended September 30,2020 and 2019 included the following (in millions):

Nine Months Ended September 30,

Net change in unrealized losses (gains) on unsettled futures contracts

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Gains and Losses related to Natural Disasters

Income from Equity Method Investments

Interest Expense, net

Income Taxes

Year-to-Date through September 30, 2020 Compared to Year-to-Date throughSeptember 30, 2019 - Results by Segment

Residential Heating & Cooling

Net sales increased 1% in the nine months ended September 30, 2020 compared tothe nine months ended September 30, 2019. Price increased 1% and mix wasfavorable by 1%, partially offset by lower sales volumes of 1%.

Refrigeration

Corporate and Other

Corporate and other expenses increased $7 million in the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2020 compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2019 due tohigher incentive compensation costs.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Our working capital and capital expenditure requirements are generally metthrough internally generated funds, bank lines of credit and an assetsecuritization arrangement. Working capital needs are generally greater in thefirst and second quarters due to the seasonal nature of our business cycle.

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Conditions Observed: Foods in two different cold holding units were measured above 41 F.Lox and cheese in in the dessert/appetizer area prep top bins were both measured at 48.2 F; pate in the under-counter fridge was measured at 43.2 F. In addition, in the Turbo-Air 3-door fridge, cut pineapple was measured at 42.4 F, and raw salmon filets were measured at 43.4 F. The built-in thermometer for the TurboAir unit was reading exactly 41 F. Please adjust and/or repair these refrigeration units to ensure that all foods therein are maintained at or below 41 F.

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After 30 years of hard work as a Manager in the Textile Industry, I finally decided to quit my job with the lump sum of PF to take home as my savings. Buying my family dream home in New Delhi is the top priority as I love the capital city for its patriotism and beauty and its Magnificent History, Awe-inspiring Monuments, and The magic of Intracity rails, significant markets, Street shopping, Delicious food, and Cultural Hub.

Besides savings, with the help of a house loan, we planned to buy an affordable medium-size home equipped with good amenities and infrastructure in one of Delhi's prime areas. Though it's challenging, the developers and the builders offer competitive pricing and better deals to fit our budgets and requirements. Before finalizing our contracts with builders, one of my friends referred to a professional home inspection team in Delhi for the property's final contingency check. As a handyman, I have already gone through my preliminary Inspection, but I realized that it's an entirely different scenario when the home inspection team inspects the home in detail. Let's see how the home inspection is worth the time and money we spend on it in the long - run.

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After my home undergoes the Inspection, we got a professional assessment report that helps negotiate with the builder for a better deal. Finally, we bought our dream home with peace and confidence by hiring the home inspector who justified its worth by ensuring the safety of my life and the property.

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By Harold C. Ford

We shouldve never moved in that [Northwestern] building.

Vera Perry, trustee, Flint Board of Education

We create the instability that we face.

Diana Wright, vice-president, Flint Board of Education

At its meeting June 9, the board of education of Flint Community Schools (FCS) was informed that it would cost the school district an estimated $4 million to bring the Northwestern campus up to speed in terms of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, plumbing, and other needed upgrades such as roofing and parking lot repairs.

As a result, the 2020-2021 location of Flints 7th and 8th graders, as well as the location of the districts central kitchen services operated by Sodexo MAGIC, is uncertain.

A campus in disrepair:

The June 9 presentation to the board of education by two representatives from Johnson Controls very familiar with the districts infrastructureDaniel Mack, energy solutions account executive, and Herb Cavendish, project team superintendentdescribed a facility in a serious state of disrepair.

Daniel Mack, energy solutions account executive, Johnson Controls (LinkedIn Photo)

Johnson Controls, a company with nearly 20 offices in Michigan and a history stretching back to 1885, has serviced all FCS buildings that remain open.

Cavendish spoke of the possibility of a catastrophic failure (meaning) the system will go completely down and the building would have to be closed. Or worse.

He (Cavendish) probably knows this building better than anyone else on the planet, Mack said.

Mack and Cavendish presented their findings to the board in a report titled Performance Infrastructure for Flint Community Schools, Change of Work at Northwestern Jr. High. Board members seemed stunned by the extent and gravity of the reports findings:

Deleterious impact on learning and health:

When building automation equipment doesnt work, when mechanical equipment doesnt work, you dont control the learning environment, said Mack.

The classroom was very hot in the wintertime as well as in the summertime, Mack reported. In the wintertime we saw some classrooms that were 80-85 (F); some were 90.

Trustee Blake Strozier, as knowledgeable as anyone on the Flint board about infrastructure, warned of older equipment that, in some cases, hasnt been reviewed, updated, or even looked at since 1964. Northwestern High School was opened in 1964.

Youre absolutely right, responded Mack.

I worked in that building when it first opened and I dont ever remember the cooling system working very well, recollected Betty Ramsdell, board trustee.

The biggest concern I have with that building is the airflow, especially with what were going through right now, warned Mack, an obvious reference to the coronavirus pandemic.

We have kids with asthma, all kinds of problems going on, observed Ramsdell. It would really, really concern me.

Entrance to the problem-plagued former Northwestern High School campus (Photo by Tom Travis)

Board remorse:

We shouldve never moved in that building, said Vera Perry, board trustee.

If we had known all this before, we would never have opened that building and used it, said Ramsdell. She then cautioned against putting good money after bad.

The reopening of the Northwestern building to 7th and 8th grade students for the 2019-2020 school year was done during the administration of now-suspended FCS Superintendent Derrick Lopez. As reported by The Flint Journal-MLive which obtained a suspension memo via a Freedom of Information Act request, one of five reasons listed for the suspension was lack of a plan while reopening the districts Northwestern school building as a junior high school.

Before his suspension, during emotionally charged building consolidation/closure meetings, Lopez appeared to lobby board members for moving junior high students out of the Northwestern building.

We have too much infrastructure for the number of students were trying to educate, said Lopez in November 2019. A key component of his administrations proposed deficit elimination plan was closure of the former Northwestern High School, the largest Flint campus still open at 212,000 square feet.

We dont like closing buildings at all, Lopez said in January 2020, but I tell you that is one of the things we have to consider.

Lopez noted that the Northwestern building, which has a seating capacity for 1551 students, housed only 400 junior high students at the time. He said that cleaning and electricity for the building alone respectively cost $141,500 and $328,000 annually.

Of the five consolidation options offered by the Lopez administration, two plans would have middle school students remain at Northwestern, two would have sent them to Holmes, one would have sent them to the Scott building.

But where are we going to get the money?

The prospects for finding money in the FCS budget seemed bleak after a review of district finances by Carrie Sekelsky, FCS executive director of finance.

Sekelsky said FCS could squeeze about $2.8 million out of current financial resources for the purpose of upgrades at Northwestern, but it would be a severe cut on our general operating fund. She concluded: There would be virtually nothing left in the budget for needed maintenance and upgrades at the other 12 buildings in the district.

We have a lot of roofing issueswe have severe leaks, we have major parking lot issues throughout the district, said Sekelsky. We will have a very difficult time to do any other repair at any other building.

She explained that voter approval of the March 10 millage diverted funds from the districts 4.0 mill sinking fund used for infrastructure needs: 2.82 mills are now used to pay off the districts debt; the remaining 1.18 mills are used for infrastructure needs.

Comments by Diana Wright, board vice president, seemed to capture the air of resignation and financial reality that consumed the boards discussion: My position is, no, I dont want to abandon the north end; yes, I want our students to have a quality learning environment; but where are we going to get the money?

North and south:

For a short time, the Flint boards discussion devolved to familiar territory: the needs of the citys northside residents versus the needs of its southside residents.

We have to invest in something on the north side to prevent Flint students from going to suburban schools like Hamady, Beecher and Carman-Ainsworth, proclaimed Carol McIntosh, board trustee. Avoiding the north side, avoiding Northwestern, avoiding Northern, and running to Southwestern has not helped us.

I do not want to desert the north end, responded Ramsdell. I do not want to desert our familiesWere going to have to listen, adjust, and compromise.

You cant call yourself a community school when youve gotta go across town to go to school, replied McIntosh.

It sounds like we just have to move (out of Northwestern), said Perry with an air of resignation, as it would deplete the districts sinking fund monies and leave no money for the needs of other buildings.

What to do?

A brainstorming session led by Anita Steward, FCS interim superintendent, resulted in four options.

Option 1 was to continue to use the Northwestern building for the districts 7th and 8th graders. The challenge, of course, is finding the funds necessary to upgrade infrastructure.

Option 2 would relocate the students from Northwestern to Holmes. Im not comfortable putting all those children into the same building unless you have Joe Clark as a principal, said Strozier. Clark was the no-nonsense principal of Eastside High School portrayed by Morgan Freeman in the 1989 film Lean on Me.

Option 3, proposed by Strozier, would send the 7th and 8th graders to the elementary schools in their own neighborhoods making them K-8 buildings. Citing maturation issues, at least one board member objected to the idea of putting elementary and middle school children in the same building.

Option 4, proposed by Perry, would return 7th and 8th graders to the Northwestern building and then to other campuses in phases.

Itinerant middle schoolers:

Since 2018, FCS leaders have mulled over multiple plans for the location of its middle schoolers.

The more we move people, the more they leave, lamented Strozier.

Indecision, the central kitchen, and the FCS budget:

The boards indecision about the Northwestern building has an impact beyond the location of its middle schoolers.

FCS spent approximately $1 million to centralize and equip its food services at the Northwestern campus. Are we talking about complete closure of the facility? asked Steward during the boards brainstorming session about the future of the campus. If so, then the district would also need a plan for the relocation of its food services presently managed by Sodexo MAGIC.

Further, uncertainty about future use of the Northwestern building resulted in the boards only nondecision at its recent marathon discussions of the budgets for 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. After lengthy back and forth, the board tabled a decision on the Food Service Fund line item for 2020-2021. FCS decisions on the budget are due to the Michigan Department of Treasury by June 30.

Time is running out:

FCS board members are chagrined by the possibility of moving their middle schoolers yet again. We are moving those kids at the most developmentally fragile time of their lives, lamented Strozier.

Nonetheless, with its balanced calendar, FCS students return to school the first week of August. Steward had earlier advised the board that parents start making their decisions about school choice in May and June. She urged the board to make a decision about Northwestern by the first week in July.

EVM Education Beat reporter and staff writer Harold C. Ford can be reached at hcford1185@gmail.com.

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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in conjunction with Lochinvar Corp., issued a recall for Lochinvar residential condensing boilers, combi boilers and packaged systems sold after August 2016.

The boilers flue grommet can deteriorate and dislodge during use and allow the boiler to emit carbon monoxide, posing a risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. The firm has received seven reports of boilers flue grommets deteriorating, including one report of two nonfatal injuries involving carbon monoxide poisoning, and two reports of carbon monoxide emission not involving an injury.

Consumers with the recalled boilers should immediately contact the installer or a qualified technician to schedule a free repair. Consumers who continue use of the boilers while awaiting repair should have working carbon monoxide alarms outside of sleeping areas and on every level of the home.

The recalled boilers were sold under the Lochinvar, A. O. Smith and State Proline brand names and have serial numbers within the range of 103475818 through 115078306. The model number and serial number can be found on the data plate on the product located on the units rating plate, which is located either on the outer jacket of the unit or on the underside of the removable front jacket plate. The brand name is printed on the front of each unit.

Model numbers and additional photos can be found atwww.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2020/Lochinvar-Recalls-Condensing-Residential-Boilers-Due-to-Risk-of-Carbon-Monoxide-Poisoning#. About 34,300 were sold in the United States and about 3,642 units were sold in Canada through independent contractors, plumbers, and plumbing supply vendors and distributors from August 2016 through June 2020. Cost was between $8,000 and $25,000, including installation.

Consumers should contact Lochinvar toll-free at 833-232-9706 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET Monday through Friday. Check for the recalled boilers serial number atwww.waterheaterrecall.com, and select the look-up feature for the flue grommet recall.

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