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Presidents Day dawned bright and cloudless in Napa a beautiful day to help keep the city beautiful.
Armed with trash-picking poles, plastic bags and paint rollers, more than 85 volunteers teamed up Monday morning to scour streets, parks and trails of litter, spray-painted graffiti and other eyesores across the city.
We feel because were such a tight-knit community, volunteering should be an everyday part of our lives, said Jim Tomlinson, manager of CVNL Volunteer Napa, which partnered with Napa Valley CanDo and the city Public Works Department to organize the cleanup.
While the three groups have organized previous beautifying drives separately, nonprofits and the city joined forces this year to better reach volunteers, Tomlinson said. The creation of CanDos Napa Valley Give!Guide built up a contact list that helped promote Mondays event to a wider audience, he said.
Handfuls of helpers cleaned 14 sites across the city, from Kennedy Park in the south and downtown First and Second streets to stretches of the Napa River and San Francisco Bay trails. City Public Works staff helped choose the sites after observing which locations were the most litter-prone, said Tina Chechourka, a city construction inspector and event organizer.
Clearing broken glass and other hazards from Napas bicycle routes was a special priority for the cleanup effort, as was sweeping the Napa Valley Wine Train route clear of refuse tourists otherwise would see, according to Chechourka.
Its like the broken-window theory; people see trash on the ground and theyre liable to put trash on the ground, she said. And if you see someplace clean, youre likely to keep trash in your pocket.
One of the more visible targets for Mondays volunteers was the side of a self-storage building along the railroad track and bicycle path passing near California Boulevard. A group of five high school boys approached the building with long-handled rollers and paint barrels in hand, to efface the huge black letters on its side as well as older tags still faintly visible even under several coats of paint.
Lucas A. Rivera, a New Technology High senior, already had planned his own cleanup for Presidents Day, only to mesh his effort with the citys and recruiting 10 other teens in the bargain. I told (organizers) to give us, the teens, the harder jobs, so were doing the graffiti, the 18-year-old Rivera said.
Others cleaning up on Monday made the effort a more personal mission.
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Updated: 02/17/2015 6:52 AM Created: 02/17/2015 6:42 AM WHEC.com
A Macedon family was not injured in an early morning fire. Firefighters were called to a home on West Street between Bickford and West Main Street.
Crews say a family of three was heating the home with a pellet stove when it malfunctioned. Firefighters say heavy smoke damaged the roof and attic. We're told someone inside woke up due to the smoke and was able to get everyone inside out.
Investigators say they are checking for hot spots throughout the home. Crews say this should be a warning for families using heaters or pellet stoves to heat their homes this winter.
Heating Safety Tips Source: National Fire Protection Association
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The members of the Ashley County Quorum Court, in their regular meeting on Tuesday, February 10, approved three changes in the budget for this year and declared vacancies in the position of constable in two townships.
Corliss McCain, the chairman of the budget committee, said that her committee had three recommendations with two of the three implemented by appropriation ordinances later in the meeting. The first was to appropriate $10,000 from the tax collector's automation fund for extra help to replace a worker who will be off for about eight weeks. The collector also proposes to pay the regular worker during that period.
The second change in the budget is to appropriate $1,175 to increase the salary of the Hamburg District Court clerk and assistant clerk. The raise of .23 cents per hour will make the salaries equal to those of Crossett court workers.
The budget committee also recommended that the current treasurer receive payment of $1,402 for vacation time she worked last year while the previous treasurer was off due to health reasons.
In addition to the appropriation ordinances, the county also approved a pair of resolutions declaring vacant the office of constable in White Township and Carter Township. The county judge said that John Burnside moved out of White Township, which is in the Fountain Hill area, and is no longer eligible to hold that office. No one ran for constable the Carter township which is the Hamburg area. Judge Holland said that he has people who want to be constable in both townships.
State statutes provide that all vacancies in elective township offices, which would apparently include the post of constable, will be filled by the governor.
The county judge said that Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel submitted the only bid for hot mix. The bid is for $107 per ton, or if one location has over 200 tons, $104 per ton, not including any applicable taxes.
For replacing culverts on Hanks Creek on Ashley Road 17, the county received bids of $50,803.20 from Hanson Pipe and Precast and for $83,326.40 from Drainage Pipe, LLC. The bid is to deliver, but not to install, 240 linear feet of 5'x5' precast reinforced concrete box culvert sections.
The county judge said that Ashley 17, also known as the Old Hamburg-Crossett Highway, will have to be closed while the work is underway, adding that he will give notice before closing the road.
The quorum court approved the reappointments of Patti Hamilton, Angie Lauhon and Imie Carpenter to the Ashley County Library Administrative Board. They will serve five year terms.
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The copper thief confessed to hitting homes all over town. That meant Detective Joseph Auroras investigation was just beginning.
By the time Aurora finished his investigation months later, police arrested two men in connection with 13 separate thefts of copper pipes from vacant houses. Reported copper thefts had plunged in New Haven. And stayed that way.
The TV version of this case would have wrapped up last July 31, the day police picked up a pair of men for breaking down the door of a vacant city-owned home on Clifton Street in Fair Haven Heights and making off with copper pipes. It was one of dozens of reported copper thefts from abandoned homes. The crime was on the rise thanks to a rise in copper prices, easy accessibility to vacant homes across town, and the fact that stolen copper, which doesnt bear serial numbers, is difficult to trace. Owners of vacant properties sometimes report the thefts to insurance companies without bothering to tell the police too, meaning that while they may recover their losses, another victim is more likely to get hit.
The day of the arrest Aurora interviewed the two men. One of the men admitted to carrying out 19 such thefts over four and a half months. He offered as many details about the jobs as he could remember.
But in real life, that was not enough to make a case. Aurora now had homework to do lots of it. Checking databases, Google Earth. Visiting houses. Confirming details, acquiring evidence. It would take months. He got the job done, and has now obtained the last of 26 warrants, 13 for each suspect.
The 33-year-old detective, who joined the department eight years ago, has earned a reputation in the police departments robbery and burglary division for following trails, sticking with cases, and making them stick.
The city was fielding 10 to 11 copper-theft complaints a week before Aurora cracked the case, according to his supervisor, Sgt. Manmeet Colon. Now its at about two or three.
She called Aurora a very passionate and very diligent investigator. He goes out to the pawn shops and scrap yards. They know him on a first-name basis. He always follows up.
Auroras pawn shop sleuthing solved a second, unrelated case that led to an arrest Monday. A former employee of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) was charged with first-degree larceny for allegedly swiping tens of thousands of dollars of Dell computer gear from the groups 900 Chapel St. offices. Aurora tracked down and recovered $48,662 worth of the equipment. (More about that later in this story.
That case and the copper case were all about follow-up, demonstrating how the tedious, less glamorous aspects of detective work can make the difference.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT)-- Winter storms and along with them the cold, snow and icy conditions can make delivery of your mail very challenging for letter carriers and your Post Office.
Support your letter carrier and Post Office in providing safe and timely delivery of your mail.
The Postal Service said they'll do their best to make delivery to all addresses. At the same time, they need to insure the safety of all carriers along their routes. Therefore, the Postal Service is asking that customers take caution themselves as they clear a path for their letter carrier.
Postal residential and business customers are asked to clear your mailbox area of snow, sleet, slush, ice and debris, including clearing nearby sidewalks, steps and porches.
If mailboxes are blocked off and conditions are difficult, letter carriers must always consider safety and accessibility first. Letter carriers are instructed to not deliver to mailboxes and locations which are too hazardous or unsafe to access.
Whether you have a street-side, centralized neighborhood/cluster unit, house, or door mailbox, postal letter carriers need to have clear and safe access to deliver your mail.
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Left disabled by a gunshot wound in 2011, Anda Mthulu from Taiwan in Khayelitsha faces much hardship in his township, through both physical and social obstacles.
Mthulu, 28, is an intern who teaches computer skills to wheelchair users at the QuadPara Association of the Western Cape (QAWC) in Durbanville. QAWC "helps [quadriplegics and paraplegics] live their lives to their full potential," says Mthulu.
Mthulu is able to get in and out of his home when he uses crutches. In his wheelchair he is only able to get out.
Getting to work each day is a hard task for Mthulu as he has to travel on three different taxis, using crutches to get between each drop-off point. He says that taxis will not stop for him if he is in his wheelchair as they do not want to waste time helping him get into the taxi. Trying to use busses is not any easier as most busses only have steps to get in, which means Mthulu has to ask someone to help him or pay someone to be his "helper" for the day. Even if he manages to get on the bus, Mthulu has fallen many times as the driver "does not wait for you while you are trying to find a seat."
Mthulu mentions that even given his situation, there are other wheelchair users in his community that are far worse off. Mthulu says that living close to the road and still having one leg allow him to be far more mobile compared to his friend, Babalo, who cannot use either of his legs and must travel long distances, through sand, to get from his home to the road.
Mthulu says he is grateful for his father and a neighbour, Simphiwe, who is "the best" - helping Mthulu whenever he is able to.
Simphiwe helps Mthulu get over a cement obstacle in the sandy corridor outside his home.
Mthulu speaks of the vast number of issues that he and other disabled people frequently experience. People charge him to do simple tasks such as sweeping the floor of his lounge or throwing out a bucket of water. His neighbours do not want him to build a ramp from the pavement to the road near his home. Mthulu says people stare at him, don't greet him, push past him in queues, throw rubbish in his yard, use his clothing line without asking, and rob him of his possessions when he is in his wheelchair. Disheartened by how others treat disabled people, Mthulu remarks, "We are not animals, we are human beings as well."
Anthony Ghillino, project manager at QAWC, says "there really are so many issues that people in disadvantaged areas who use wheelchairs face."
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With the threat of a quarter of an inch of ice in the forecast, power outages could likely happen in the area.
To keep safe and warm during these outages, people are reminded to have a winter preparedness kit and to also be cautious when using alternative means of light and heat.
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There is a chance that power in the area could go out, said Jennifer Jabon, spokesperson for Duke Energy.
The weather can be unpredictable, said Jabon. The ice will pose more of a challenge then snow usually does.
While no power is a possibility, people may turn to using a generator or a propane heater to stay warm. There are dangers if these are not used probably, warned Director of Emergency services for Cleveland County, Perry Davis.
If you are using a generator keep them away from doors and windows. Keep them in a well ventilated area, Davis said.
Keeping generators away from doors and windows, as well as outside, will keep carbon monoxide from entering the home, Davis said. Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas that comes from the use of generators and propane heaters and can be harmful to people.
Also, be mindful of using candles as well. They can become a fire hazard, Davis said.
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