SHEPHERD The beginnings of dozens of productive and rewarding careers were possibly launched Friday at Shepherd High School.

The schools 270 students spent their last day before the holiday break attending a career fair. Students tapped into the expertise of about 40 presenters who spent about 45 minutes per session communicating to students the spark that keeps them coming to work each morning.

For Pete Thompson, who sells artificial joints for Biomet, attention to detail helping the medical team get the new joint fitted just so can extend and enhance a patients quality of life for decades after knee or hip replacement surgery.

If our people get it right, it can last 20 years, he said. (The surgical teams) job is to put it in just right. Our job is to help them accomplish that.

Thompson augmented his talk with real-life props: cobalt chrome parts and ball-and-joint combinations, which he distributed around the room. He had a ready answer for the How do your patients get through airport screening? question: We have a card explaining why people have set off the alarm.

Kathleen Armstrong, who owns Spectrum Group Architects in Billings and offered her talk in the classroom manned by her husband, Jeff, tossed candy canes to spur student responses while demonstrating how she uses 3-D computer modeling to give clients a ready and easily altered cutaway view of the home shes designing.

If a client says, I dont like siding on this wall, I can make it brick or stone, she said, demonstrating with a few keystrokes how easy that is. You dont have to erase and change everything, because one change goes to every elevation. I dont have to do it individually and by hand.

In a nearby classroom, Karlee Omsberg, a radiologic technologist with St. Vincent Healthcare, told students something that must have been music to their ears: She started working at the hospital this spring a full month before graduating from college.

She applauded the number of boys in the classroom, noting that her field is dominated by women.

She told students shes in close daily contact with doctors, and is often present in the room when a trauma patient is admitted, awaiting X-ray or CT scan orders. She brought along a light box to display an array of X-rays depicting all kinds of painful developments, including broken bones and a separated shoulder.

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James Glaser the executive director of the San Joaquin Local Agency Formation Commission is siding with PG&E against South San Joaquin Irrigation Districts bid to reduce retail electric rates 15 percent across the board in Manteca, Ripon, and Escalon.

Less than two weeks after Glaser tried to work behind the scenes to block the Ripon City Council from filling the unexpired LAFCo term of the late Red Nutt in an apparent bid to have one less commissioner that would have enhanced PG&Es efforts to block SSJIDs bid to takeover retail power service in the three communities, he is posed on Wednesday to push for the five-member LAFCo panel to reject the SSJID plan.

Glaser tried to fill the LAFCo seat in advance of Wednesdays meeting following Nutts sudden passing with the alternate from Lodi. Under LAFCo bylaws the alternate member can serve until such time as a permanent replacement is made by the City Selection Committee consisting of the six mayors of the six cities in San Joaquin County.

However, the alternate from Lodi Phil Katzakian could not have served in any case since Dec. 3 was his last day in office. Had Glaser succeeded, there would have been just four voting members at Wednesdays meeting.

Ripon Mayor Chuck Winn, however, was able to contact Lathrop Mayor Sonny Dhaliwal chairman of the mayors committee who was able to pull off an 11th hour gathering of all the mayors to beat a legal deadline for having a replacement in place by the Dec. 10 meeting.

The mayors agreed the seat on the LAFCo board still belonged to Ripon as the appointment of Nutt was through May of 2015.

Last week, the Ripon council appointed Jake Parks to serve on the LAFCo board. The other four LAFCo board members who will decide the fate of the SSJID application are public member and Chairman Steven Nilssen, Tracy Councilman Michael Maciel, and San Joaquin County Supervisors Ken Vogel and Larry Ruhstaller.

The LAFCo commission meets at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the sixth floor Board of Supervisors chambers, 44 North San Joaquin Street, Stockton.

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(BPT) - Can the look and condition of your roof affect the resale value and curb appeal of your home? What about your window frames, entry door or shutters? The answer is absolutely.

This year building product companies are urging homeowners to focus on improving their home's exterior. Investing in key products now can make your home more marketable in the future.

Sixty-one percent of homeowners say that when house hunting or designing their home, the most attention-grabbing exterior feature was the style of the home, according to the 2011 DaVinci Roofscapes Homeowners Exterior Preferences Study conducted by Harris Interactive. This was followed by how the house looked on the property (43 percent).

And, when it comes to adding curb appeal to a home, color counts. Fifty-nine percent of homeowners place a lot of emphasis on the role that color plays when they think about replacing major exterior home features.

"To enhance curb appeal it's all about creating 'top down' color by working from the roof down through the different elements of the exterior such as siding, windows, trim and doors," says Kate Smith, president of Sensational Color. "For example, a colonial style home with a warm Autumn Blend polymer shake roof could be ideally matched with a home exterior in a neutral stone color.

"Then, add pops of color for curb appeal, such as chocolate brown vinyl window frames, like those available from Simonton Windows. Shutters and trim around the home could use the same deep brown color. A stand-out color like pine green or marine blue would then be added to the entry door to add personality to the exterior."

Smith, who has authored the free online FRESH Home Exterior Colors and FRESH Color Schemes for Your Home Exterior guides, spends a good deal of her time advising homeowners, remodelers and builders on selecting the perfect colors for the exterior of the home.

"It's important to remember that it all starts on the roof," says Smith. "When you're working top down with unlimited color options from a company like DaVinci Roofscapes, a homeowner has an open palette for designing the perfect home exterior."

Smith recommends that other key factors to enhance curb appeal can be found by selecting products for the home that are easily painted and maintained. "For me, it's all about adding color to easy-care products," says Smith. "That's one reason why I like Fypon decorative millwork pieces so much. These smooth polyurethane pieces come primed and ready to paint. We're talking about shutters, louvers, door and window trim, balustrade systems and even brackets and mouldings to increase the exterior appeal of a home.

"And, of course, nothing pops with color like the front door. I recommend homeowners consider stylish and paintable fiberglass entry doors from Therma-Tru. This company invented fiberglass doors and they offer many options for adding warmth, color and elegance to the home exterior."

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When your home was originally built, the exterior appearance was one of a thousand choices being made by the builder. An exterior remodel is your opportunity to have your personality expressed in the outward appearance of your home. Its a chance to make your home look its absolute best and unique.

We help our customers totally change the look of their home just by changing the style of their siding. For example, a staggered reveal (2 rows of siding spaced at 3-inches followed by 1 row of 6-inch siding) can give a large wall more character and charm. A single-story home will benefit from using narrower siding because wider siding can make a home seem smaller. We can make a small home seem quaint instead of simply small. Well help you make the right choice for your home!

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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) November 28, 2014

In line with its expansion into the Jacksonville market, Universal Roof has launched not only its new Jacksonville-based residential website, but has also revamped its other two sites for its Orlando-based residential contractor site Universal Roof & Contracting as well as its Orlando-based commercial contracting company's site, Universal Contracting. The new, fully responsive websites can now resize and reconfigure automatically according to the device of the user.

"We're excited about the website because it gives consumers a great way to get their home improvement questions answered easily from the comfort of their couch. Good information is hard to find, and this gives them another good resource for their home improvement needs." ________________________________________________ Universal Roof & Contracting - Jacksonville ________________________________________________

From the company founders to each of member of the growing team, personal integrity and high standards are paramount.With a mission to provide superior construction services to the communities they serve, Universal Roof & Contracting strives to add value for clients through innovation, foresight, integrity and aggressive performance and to serve with character and purpose that brings honor to God.

Founded in 1993, Universal Roof & Contracting has steadily grown in Florida and has now expanded to Jacksonville. In 2008, the torch was passed from father to son, and Jared Mellick assumed the primary leadership role as company President.

The new Jacksonville location of Universal Roof & Contracting serves the greater Jacksonville area with the same quality residential and commercial services as its Central Florida location and specializes in roofing and siding.

The Jacksonville office is fully staffed with administrative, estimating and production teams and is overseen by the company CEO's grandson, Brandan Molthan. Making a positive impact on Northeast Florida residents through continued commercial construction, expanded residential home improvement services and regular community involvement, the associates consider it an honor to serve with excellence.

Jared and his father Ken's long-time running Central Florida home improvement radio show, "In the House with Ken and Jared" is now syndicated in Jacksonville on Saturdays, 9am-10am at NEWS 104.5FM WOKV. Jacksonville general manager, Brandan Molthan, often co-hosts with Ken and Jared as they use their expertise to offer home improvement advice to callers each week. _______________________________________________ Universal Contracting Community Works _______________________________________________

The Universal Roof & Contracting family has always contributed to the improvement of the lives and circumstances of those around them. From food donations to veteran benefit programs, family members and employees alike have partnered over the years with community projects to impact area residents in a positive way.

Now, as a growing company, Universal Roof & Contracting has established the Universal Contracting Community Works division with hopes to accelerate their efforts to see restoration, healing and progress come to the lives of greater Orlando area residents through prayer and the purposed works of their employees and associates.

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