Daniels Public Lecture: Kathryn Gustafson "A Place that Fits: Landscape Architecture"
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Over the years we have seen a dramatic increase in our international business. We opened up a division dedicated to handling the needs of our international customers in order to give them the same high level of specialized service they would receive in the states, explains Aymie Clayton, vice president of Oly-Ola Edgings.
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Reconstruction slated to start this summer
BY DARCIE MOORE Times Record Staff
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RESIDENTS EXAMINE PLANS for reconstruction of North Street this summer following a presentation on the project Wednesday at City Hall. City officials and Jennifer Claster, a landscape architect for Wright-Pierce, said now is the time to hear concerns from residents and learn details about this portion of the road before plans are finalized. DARCIE MOORE / THE TIMES RECORD BATH
City officials and a landscape architect with Wright-Pierce unveiled plans for reconstruction of North Street this summer at an hour-long meeting Wednesday night in the basement of City Hall.
The first phase of the project will stretch from the Five Corners intersection (where North, Oak Grove and Lincoln streets and Congress Avenue come together) to High Street. A second phase, anticipated to be completed in 2016, would continue the reconstruction further to Washington Street.
Peter Owen, Baths public works director, said now is the time to hear feedback from residents and learn about subsurface issues specific to their properties. There were at least 40 residents attending the meeting.
JENNIFER CLASTER Wright-Pierce landscape architect Jennifer Claster said North Street is part of a city-designated primary bike route between the Sagadahoc Bridge and West Bath, and also part of the interim onroad route for the East Coast Greenway and U.S. Bike Route 1A. This route will connect to a local and more regional trail that will link the Androscoggin River Bicycle and Pedestrian Path to the Kennebec River.
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Conyers Garden Club awarded the landscape plaque for January to Gail Roberson and Dumont Camp at 3672 Sweet Briar Lane. The green color and lush texture of their fescue lawn, evident even in winter, requires a fertilizing schedule in fall and spring. Fall over-seeding is sometimes necessary to maintain the coverage. Pine straw islands add contrast to the yard. The homeowners also plant a vegetable garden each spring. (Special Photo)
Conyers Garden Club awarded the landscape plaque for January to Gail Roberson and Dumont Camp at 3672 Sweet Briar Lane. The green color and lush texture of their fescue lawn, evident even in winter, requires a fertilizing schedule in fall and spring. Fall over-seeding is sometimes necessary to maintain the coverage. Pine straw islands add contrast to the yard. The homeowners also plant a vegetable garden each spring.
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A state senator is proposing to end the funding mechanism created last year that helps keep New Mexicos smaller hospitals afloat.
Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, D-Santa Fe is sponsoring SB117, which would end the obligation for counties to contribute to the Safety Net Care Pool at the end of 2018. That fund helps 29 primarily rural hospitals cover the cost of indigent care.
A law passed in 2014 requires all counties to contribute the equivalent of a one-twelfth percent gross-receipts tax, totaling around $24 million, into the care pool fund. Bernalillo and Sandoval counties do not have to contribute because they already have a property tax to support indigent care at University of New Mexico hospitals in their areas.
The mechanism replaced the 20-year-old Sole Community Provider program, which funded the hospitals with supplemental federal Medicaid payments and contributions from counties.
New Mexico Hospital Association President and CEO Jeff Dye said such funds have been a critical component in keeping some smaller hospitals from closing.
Dye said the federal government provides $2.38 for every dollar counties and the state contribute. He is also concerned about the level of state funding. If money isnt forthcoming from within New Mexico, federal dollars would be left on the table.
This is the lifeblood for keeping our hospitals afloat, Dye said.
An additional 185,000 New Mexicans received coverage through a Medicaid expansion in 2014, reducing the amount of uncompensated care, but Dye said its still unclear how that will play out in the long term. He said his organization views the proposed sunset date of 2018 as premature.
The changes in uncompensated care funding are new, Dye said. Were only in the second year of analysis in how this (the Safety Net Care Pool funding mechanism) works.
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Malvern developed massively in the Victorian era around 'taking the waters'. A key date is 1842, when Drs James Wilson and Gully set up their water cure establishments in Belle Vue, at the centre of town. Two famous Victorian era Charles' came to Malvern for the water - both Dickens and Darwin, with their respective wives.
Malvern Water was until recently bottled at Colwall by Schweppes (part of Coca Cola). This plant has closed, but you can still get the water for free from the various springs (take note of any warning signs re quality). The reputation of the water was firmly established by J Schweppe & Co. at the Great Exhibition in 1851. There have been other bottlers, going back to the 17th century and the latest is Holywell, at one of the orignal sites. It is best known for "containing nothing at all" (ie high levels of purity).
Malvern Spa Association has a more comprehensive list of springs etc. plus their location (approx. 70 in the area). Wells of Malvern is a map from Harvey (see Outdoor Links for contact details, or order from Amazon), similar to part of their Hills walking map. Also see under Points of Interest below for our own Google Map/GPX record. Check any notices of water quality if you want to take a drink (and some springs may be 'dry', or at least not running).
Cora Weaver has written a number of related books (which can be obtained via The Spas Research Fellowship): Springs, Spouts, Fountains and Holy Wells of the Malverns; Aquae Malvernensis; A Short Guide to Malvern as a Spa Town; other titles on Malvern history.
Well dressing competition happens the same weekend as the Fringe May Day event (Saturday before 1st May) - see Events. Some pictures of dressed springs (2002, 2003, 2007). Anyone can apply (to Spa Assoc) to dress a site, on a first come first served basis.
Local BBC pages are worth a look.
A review on London Review of Books of Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey through Britain (paperback pub'd 2000, from Amazon) includes the following: "The hydrotherapy in Malvern cured both Florence Nightingale and, in part, Tennyson, 'who came after a nervous breakdown, and declared he was "half-cured, half-destroyed" by the place'. Charles Darwin 'arrived depressed and unable to write, but was so persuaded by the effects of his treatment that he returned three more times'. (Darwin was to have his own douche-bath fed with Malvern water installed at home.)" Educational web site WebQuest has some material 'The Mystery in the Attic' based around the Malvern water cure but extending somewhat beyond it - the Attic extract from The Story of Malvern (1911) is an idiosyncratic take on the ups and downs of local developments.
This well known ridge runs roughly north/south, to the west of Great Malvern, and stretches for 8 miles or more (depending on what you include). William Cobbett, the author of Rural Rides (available at Amazon), described the Malvern Hills as "those curious bubblings up", when staying at Woollas Hall (quote from Mark Horrell's web site). While the ridge itself is open, and often windy, the lower slopes have a range of woodland and scrub, with quarries to explore (not all are recommended as safe).
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