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Crews work on removing the scrim surrounding the Colorado State Capitol dome, Dec. 26 2013. The weatherproof wrap that's covered the dome for nearly two years is starting to come off early Thursday morning. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
By the weekend, the gold of the Colorado Capitol should be glimmering once again, as crews slowly bring down the curtain that has shrouded the dome during the $17 million restoration begun in 2010.
The scaffolding 210 feet high will be taken apart piece by piece over the next six weeks.
"If we have done our jobs well, you won't be able to tell we were there," state architect Larry Friedberg said, "except the building will be in much better shape than it was before we started."
The curtain began to come down a few inches at a time at daybreak Thursday.
Whatever the weather, the gauzy cloth had allowed work to proceed every day that crews were available, said Doug Platt, spokesman for the state Department of Personnel and Administration, which has overseen the work.
The curtain, called a scrim, could withstand sustained winds up to 60 mph, and when heated, it acted like shrink-wrap, making the 350,000 pounds of scaffolding capable of taking winds up to 90 mph.
The 270-foot dome has been closed since 2006, when a chunk of cast iron crashed on the observation deck where thousands of school children and tourists visit.
That kick-started a drive to make repairs. The legislature appropriated $4 million for the overhaul. The rest came from grants, sponsors and other donations through a campaign called "Share in the Care Colorado."
The work has been painstaking, especially replacing the thinner-than-paper sheath of Colorado gold that covers the dome.
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The coal bin on the blueprints. Lisa and Terence Kenny's family could be living on Mineola Road in Garden City right now, and not on Bayberry Avenue. Where is Mineola Road? It can be seen on the 1914 map of Garden City, where Bayberry is now. Back then, Mineola Road swung down from the corner of Old Country Road and Washington Avenue and cut diagonally through the area. It was drawn in a complimentary curved sweep to the streets of Osborne, Huntington and Prescott Roads in the future Mott Section further south.
1914's Huntington Road was an extension of our current Eleventh Street. So the old Huntington Road east of Washington Avenue became Kingsbury Road and the old Prescott Road became Claydon Road. Needless to say, that area was re-configured and Mineola Road and its twin, Lawrence Road were never laid out. The name "Mineola Plaza" is probably derived from that early Mineola Road in Garden City.
Blueprints show the ice box. Village records show that 10 Bayberry was built in 1927. The first owner was Agnes Capelle (1885- 1966) who lived in Hollis, Queens. She worked with Herbert Harris in the ladies hat wholesale industry. In 1926 the industrious couple applied for a patent for adjustable hats for men and women. It seems she rented the Bayberry house out to a few families and lived with her widowed mom and her siblings, all single.
The first renters were Elizabeth Brown (1886-1977) and Edgar E. Brown (1895-1951). Edgar was in motor transportation during WWI. This was an up and coming field since horses and mules had been used before then. Military field testing had been done and trucks were the new, added mode of transportation in 1917. But even so, a great portion of troops and goods still travelled by animal.
In 1925 the Browns were living on Second Street in Mineola with her four children from a previous marriage. Edgar and her two sons were all chauffeurs, a natural extension from Edgar's military days. The Browns moved to the Garden City house in approximately 1933 with some of their children. In 1934, no one was listed yet at number 12, 14 or 16 Bayberry. The Browns only stayed two years and moved back to Mineola by 1935. Later, Edgar was a night watchman in a department store.
In 1935 the second family moved in. They were Beatrice M. Schoen (b.1899) and Herman G. Schoen (1900-1987). Beatrice was born in Ireland and immigrated to the United States as a baby with her parents. The Schoens started life together in Ozone Park, Queens in 1923. He was a book printer. When they moved in to number 10 they had two young daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret. By 1940 two sons had also been born and Herman's mom moved in. It might have been tight quarters but they bought their house from Agnes Capelle in 1946. By then, daughters Betty and Marjorie were clerks. The Schoens lived there for a total of 30 years until 1965 when they sold the house.
The third family to live in the house was Karl Winski and Lydia Kubikowski Winski. The Winskis came from Brooklyn.
"I'm in the meat line; sausage manufacturing in a Polish neighborhood in Brooklyn. My cousins still own Sikorski in Greenpoint. The family business started in 1927 with my grandfather, Theodore, who was a Russian immigrant. My dad was [also] born in Russia also and started working for his dad in 1936. I'm the first generation born in the U.S. I started at work in 1954. I worked six to seven days a week, leaving at four in the morning and getting home at nine or ten at night. I was quite busy," Karl Winski stated. Sikorski's currently sells kielbasa, sausages, kiszka, hurka, babka and all sorts of Polish imports.
After the Winskis moved in, their two sons, Christopher and Mark were born. They were happy with the Garden City School system with its excellent reputation and Mr. Winski enjoyed watching his boys on the football and soccer fields.
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In this image taken with a slow shutter speed, traffic moves past utility crews as they prepare to work on power lines, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013, in Litchfield, Maine, where many have been without electricity since Monday's ice storm. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty
GARDINER, Maine - By Thursday, Bob and Katrina Johnson had grown weary of lugging around a portable generator to prevent a freezer-load of moose meat from spoiling and to keep Katrina's mother's home warm.
The Maine couple spent Christmas Eve at a family member's home without electricity. Christmas morning found them at their own home without power. And to complete their holiday, they traveled to a third darkened home to exchange gifts that afternoon.
"You have to go with the flow and adapt, and do the best you can," Katrina Johnson said Thursday, before their power was finally restored. "You learn how to deal with it. Do you like it? No, but you deal with it."
Utility officials said it could be days longer before power is restored to everyone after a weekend ice storm that turned out the lights from Michigan to Maine and into Canada.
People shivered for a seventh day as a new storm blew through the upper Midwest and Northeast, shutting down part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike after a pileup involving 35 vehicles. Ten people were taken to the hospital with injuries from the crash. Another pileup on Interstate 78 in eastern Pennsylvania involving 25 to 30 vehicles sent 25 people to hospitals.
So far, authorities blame the storm for 27 deaths -- 17 in the U.S. and 10 in Canada, including five who apparently died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Public health officials are reminding people to leave portable generators outside their homes and garages and away from any windows, reports CBS News correspondent Terrell Brown.
In Michigan, where about half a million homes and businesses lost power at the storm's peak, utilities reported that 103,000 customers remained without power Thursday evening and said it could be Saturday before all electricity is restored.
In Maine, more snow added to the misery for utility crews working long hours in eastern Maine and parts of the state's interior.
Most utility customers in Maine were expected to have their lights on by week's end, but there were some pockets where damage was so severe it could take until Wednesday.
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AMID THE enchanting music, traditional delicious West Indian dishes and family gatherings this Christmas week, there prevails a mood of uncertainty across Barbados about its future social and economic progress.
It is a mood spawned largely by a combination of the impending retrenchment of thousands of public sector workers and continuing downgrades by international rating agencies on the countrys economic performance with dim prospects for change in the short term.
The depressing mood is lending itself to various speculative scenarios, not the least being an expected cabinet reshuffle to be announced by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart either in his coming New Years message to the nation or shortly thereafter.
While heads of government generally delight in mocking speculation about impending cabinet changes, there are increasing reports of a now inevitable cabinet reshuffle as one of the significant political initiatives to be pursued by the Prime Minister within the first quarter of 2014.
The Cabinet changes are expected to include replacement of controversial Finance Minister Chris Sinckler by Minister of Agriculture Dr David Estwick, as well as the appointment of what has long been absent from Mr Stuarts administration a Deputy Prime Minister. Current thinking suggests that this portfolio is most likely to be allotted to Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy.
With a parliamentary majority of merely two in the 30-member House of Assembly, Prime Minister Stuart can be expected to be most careful in his options for changes in ministerial portfolios.
Meanwhile, though not targeted with persistent negative ratings from international agencies, as is currently the case for Barbados, various other countries in the Eastern Caribbean region continue to be plagued by slow and even negative economic growth, as recurring challenges surface to threaten social stability amid rising unemployment and gun-related criminality.
In this context the Caribbean Communitys governments would be anxious to receive the report from the Caribbean Growth Forum (CGF) on the way forward for 2014. Launched in May last year in Washington, the CFG is a combined initiative of the World Bank, IMF, Inter-American Development Bank, Caribbean Development Bank and the University of the West Indies.
While we await the major recommendations from the CFG, it is important for the regions people to learn of the progress, if any, made to operationalize a CARICOM Economic Commission as unanimously decided at last July annual Heads of Government Conference in Port of Spain.
The commissions terms of reference require it to address the priority areas for regional fiscal sustainability and resource mobilization as well as critical infrastructural services, particularly in energy and information communication technology.
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