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An exclusive Seven News investigation has revealed an alarming number of incidents on board and overboard on Brisbane City Cats.

Documents obtained through Right to Information legislation show staff have complained about their safety while working on vessels.

In 2014, police were called on at least one occasion when a female city cat skipper received a death threat from an irate customer.

In another instance, more than 60 international students 'drank, smoked, swore and interfered with equipment on board.

But the Seven News investigation also revealed there have been complaints from passengers.

One customer claims they lost $500 dollars worth of electronics after they were saturated with window cleaning solution that was splashed by a ferry master cleaning his windscreen.

On another occasion, the Baneraba was badly damaged after it lost power and collided with the Apollo Road terminal at Bulimba.

Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said council was committed to improving the safety for both customers and crew.

The safety of passengers on city cats is a paramount, he said.

Theres a constant retraining of city cat masters and the staff on board.

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An elderly Scarborough couple who thought they were left out in the cold after the wood from a chopped-down tree was hauled away will likely be warm and toasty for many months to come.

Patrice Stephen-Bourgeault and her husband, Laurent Bourgeault, usually burn firewood to keep warm during the winter. Recently, the couple agreed to have cut down a large silver maple tree that was on the property line between their home and their neighbours.

The Bourgeaults say their neighbours, who are building a new home, agreed to pay for the tree removal. The couple believed they would be able to keep the firewood after the tree was gone. But that was not written in the contract, and the tree-removal company took the wood away.

"I didn't think he would take it," Stephen-Bourgeault told CTV Toronto. "I said that's my tree, that's my wood."

Surprised that they couldnt keep the firewood, the Bourgeaults contacted CTV Toronto's Pat Foran to share their story. The report aired on Monday, and shortly after, viewers expressed an interest to donate firewood to the couple.

On Tuesday, dozens of tree companies, arborists and Good Samaritans showed up at the Bourgeaults home to deliver firewood.

"I'm flabbergasted. Toronto is a good place, (there are) good people," Stephen-Bourgeault said. "Thanks to the community, thanks to Toronto."

The Bourgeaults say they likely have enough firewood for the remainder of the winter, and many more to come.

According to tree removal companies, many homeowners often want the wood taken away after a tree has been removed. They say if a homeowner wants to keep the wood, its important that those details are written in the contract.

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Some people who live on Sullivan Drive in Whitehaven say a large tree limb covering the roof of a vacant house is becoming an eyesore in their neighborhood.

The house is in the 400 block of Sullivan Drive, which is in the Lacey Mosby's Whitehaven Park Subdivision.

Fred Cotton says his neighborhood has been overlooked. He lives next door to the "eyesore" and he says he is sick of it.

I'd like for them to tear the house down, he said.

Neighbors say the tree limb fell during a storm several months ago. Cotton says he has gone as far to cut the grass in the front yard himself.

Yeah, it bothers me because it brings the property value down, he added.

I'd like to see somebody come and do something about it instead of letting the tree just lay on top of the house, agreed neighbor Kenny Porterfield.

One street over on Alice Drive, there are two more abandoned homes.

WMC Action News 5 uncovered that City of Memphis has a record of 906 dilapidated homes (693 were demolished) in 2014 and 292 homes were boarded up.

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The work to be covered by the new contracts will consist of pruning 3,767 trees in an area bounded by Riverside Drive to the west, Fifth and King avenues to the south, North Star Road and Northwest Boulevard to the east and Lane Avenue to the south.

A tree-pruning program city officials said improves safety and enhances neighborhood appearances will cost the city more than $97,000 this year.

Upper Arlington City Council voted 6-0 Feb. 2, with President Don Leach absent, to approve $97,617 in contracts for winter tree pruning.

According to a staff report from Steve Cothrel, Upper Arlington's parks and forestry superintendent, the city prunes trees on a six-year cycle.

He said the work to be covered by the new contracts will consist of pruning 3,767 trees in an area bounded by Riverside Drive to the west, Fifth and King avenues to the south, North Star Road and Northwest Boulevard to the east and Lane Avenue to the south.

The report said the area contains the city's largest population of trees.

"The work is necessary to provide adequate clearance over streets and sidewalks, remove dead, decayed and hazardous limbs and to improve tree structure, service life and safety, as well as neighborhood appearance and property values," the report said.

Per council's action, Russell Tree Experts will receive $51,371 to perform work in three sections, and Davey Tree Expert Co. will receive $46,246 for work in one section.

During the Feb. 2 conference session at which council approved the contracts, Councilman David DeCapua expressed concerns because Russell's bids were at least 50 percent lower for sections of work than those from three other bidders.

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Traveling to capture footage for her most recent installation, Millie Chen came across an empty room. Chen was in Cambodia, in Tuol Sleng, the infamous site of a high school used by the Khmer Rouge in 1975, when she had the idea to photograph the whole room.

The result is stain, a fascinating new set of 80 panels on display in the Body of Trade & Commerce Gallery on Niagara Street. Each panel is a digital print of a tile from that room, with gouache and watercolor images painted on top.

Chen, an artist and professor at the University at Buffalo, explained that she was not sure if she was going to do anything with the photographs she took.

What do you do with material from a site that had such atrocities? she said.

Her first attempt at resolving that conundrum resulted in the three Washed prints that are each a single drain tile in the floor. The dull, brownish-gray tile surrounding the nearly sparkling metal drain cover provide a glimpse of what stain has in store.

What she finds in these 80 tiles is a floor tile palimpsest, ready to continue the thematic exploration of previous work like the The Miseries & Vengeance Wallpapers as well as the video installation Tour, which were recently exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Both of those pieces worked through the disappearing residue of human violence that has become overgrown by nature or suffocated by the din of history.

Stain fits in with those pieces as a middle ground, with an accessible layer of colorful cultural touchstones barely shrouding the possible violence scrubbed from the tiles.

Theres a layer of humor that lets you access it, but its much deeper than that, said gallery director Anna Kaplan.

Littered with records and posters, a Slinky, Twinkies, a yellow smiley face pin, her mothers address book, roller skates, a page from Chens high school yearbook, and other detritus from the zeitgeist of the 1970s, the tiles make straightforward juxtapositions that dont easily resolve themselves the longer you spend with them.

This is mostly due to the ambiguity of the abstract blots and cracks in each tile, creating a creeping sense of unease in the back of the mind. There are chips and cracks in some of the old concrete floor of the gallery as well.

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Marlborough District Council is deciding whether these Waikawa Bay boatsheds should get their coastal permits renewed or if they should be pulled down to increase the recreational value of the area.

A row of 50-year-old boatsheds known for their quirky colour scheme could be pulled down after the Marlborough District Council learnt some were being used as makeshift baches.

Owners of the 22 run down Waikawa Bay boatsheds have been warned by the council that they can't be used as temporary accommodation if their coastal permits are renewed.

The old sheds, which require significant structural work, are famed among photographers and painters for their striking colour palette. The boatsheds are located to the north of the public launching ramp at Waikawa Bay.

Applicants told a resource consent hearing yesterday at the council that they wanted 15-year coastal permits and land use consents for the boatsheds, slipways and jetties.

If the consent is refused by the committee the boatsheds will be pulled down.

Applicants argued the sheds were necessary for storing, launching, retrieval, rigging and washing down small boats.

They agreed they would not be used for accommodation or business purposes.

It follows complaints by members of the public and a probe by the council's compliance department that one of the sheds was listed on Trade Me in 2009 for sale as a lifestyle block.

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The University of Central Arkansas Board of Trustees will consider increasing room and board rates for the 2015-16 academic year at its 10 a.m. Friday meeting.

If approved, students could see a 2.5 percent increase to room rates and a 6.75 percent increase to board rates.

The overall room and board increase for 2015-16, based on double-occupancy and a total access meal plan, would be $2,991, an increase of 3.53 percent or $102 for per semester costs.

Double-occupancy room rates would increase by $41 each semester, from $1,630 to $1,671 in the 2015-16 school year. Single rooms would cost $2,496 instead of the current $2,435 semester rate.

Five of UCAs apartment options Bear Village, Torreyson, Erbach, 321 Western and Greek Village would see an increase of $49 per semester, from $1,949 to $1,998. Other apartment options such as Stadium Park and Oak Tree would see a slightly less increase of $46 per semester, from $1,839 to $1,885.

This increase is primarily related to the continuing effort to maintain and upgrade housing facilities, the agenda states. Recommended repairs to the residence halls and university-owned apartments exceed $17.5 million. Estimated net annual revenue generated from the proposed increase for the housing room rates is $325,000.

Prior to the finalized proposal, UCA considered a 4 percent increase in room rates. Initial rates were presented to the universitys Student Government Association in January for review.

With board rates, UCA will review its food service agreement with Aramark and potentially increase semester meal plan rates across all payment plans.

According to the board agenda, the board rate is set to increase 6.75 percent overall on average. Total access plans would jump from $1,259 to $1,320 for the 2015-16 academic year, an increase of 4.8 percent.

The higher average is based on larger increases in block plans to cover added amenities and to cover higher contract rates, the agenda states.

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