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AG Property Services owner Adam Grewe (right) talks to a customer during the grand opening celebration for his showroom in Flat Rock.

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AG Property Services owner Adam Grewe cuts a ribbon to celebrate the grand opening of his new showroom as local dignitaries, customers and staff watch.

AG Property Services started out six years ago as just one man doing simple handyman services, now its one of the premiere businesses of its kind in the region.

Owner and president Adam Grewe started the business which has expanded into an operation with 18 employees and a Now Hiring sign hanging in front of the building, 15005 Telegraph Road in Flat Rock.

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The market for online and mobile cleaning and home repair booking services is taking off and Handy is set to announce some big numbers.

Two years after its launch, Handy has hit over $1 million in bookings per week. Weve gone from about $3 million in run rate to $52 million in run rate, says chief operating officer, Umang Dua.

For Hanrahan and Dua, the new on-demand service economy offers a better model for both consumers and service professionals. With the companys new mobile app, Hanrahan says our cleaners say its like an ATM machine in your pocket.

For most cleaning professionals on Handy, the hourly wage is between $15 and $22 per hour, averaging around $18 per hour. It gives you the ability to pick your own hours and it gives you a healthy hourly wage, Hanrahan says.

The revenue numbers come as both Handy and Homejoy have taken steps in recent months to re-define their businesses through new branding and new apps for mobile devices (respectively).

Increasingly, consumers are getting comfortable with the idea of booking services through their mobile phone and with mandated background checks on both the national and county level followed by an onboarding process, Handy service professionals are thoroughly vetted.

We think the Handy platform will be a remote control for your home. We want to gt to a place where well roll out all of those service categories in an instant book kind of way, says Hanrahan.

Both Handy and Homejoy see themselves as providing services beyond just home cleaning, but for Handy at least, the bulk of the companys ballooning revenue is still coming from housecleaning. In fact, roughly 85% of the companys money comes from cleaning, with the remaining 15% split between handyman services and a small number of plumbing services, according to Hanrahan.

Handy is currently in 25 cities in the U.S., two in Canada, and offering services in London. Weve had over 200,000 applications to the site for potential cleaners and handymen, and has over 5,000 active professionals who complete at least one job in a month.

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TruBlu provides a variety of cleaning and handyman services to the Elmira, Horseheads, Corning, and Ithaca, NY, areas of Upstate New York.

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STEVENSVILLE With a pouch filled with aspen, snowberry and Woods rose, Abe Fielding is doing his part to turn black to green.

Every few steps inside the charred circle where a pile of slash burned last year, Fielding stops to swing the hoe-like tool above his head and slam it into the moist earth.

A few seconds later, his hand slips into his pouch for the next seedling to plant. Following a well-practiced stoop, the plants long roots slide into the fresh hole cut in the ground.

His foot packs the earth around the plant as he moves on to the next planting.

In two days, Fielding and others from Hamiltons Watershed Restoration Group and Missoulas Miller Creek Reforestation planted 4,000 seedlings and spread native grass seeds over the last disturbed areas on the Bitterroot National Forests Bass Creek Recreation Area.

Their work marks the end of a project that thinned 765 acres of the forests second most popular recreation area last year.

Last winters ample snow and the summers rain provided enough moisture to kick-start the native bunch grass, shrubs and aspen this summer on most of the acreage that was thinned.

But the places where slash piles were burned and logs skidded needed some extra help to recover.

Bitterroot Forest botanist Robin Taylor-Davenport said crews walked over the project area last year and noted places that needed seeding and some other plant life.

Before the project started, the botanist and others collected cuttings and seeds from native plants on the site. Those were used to grow seedlings at the Bitterroots Great Bear Restoration greenhouses.

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Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill addresses the Think-A-Thon, an Oct. 11 brainstorming event for a more vibrant and walkable Route 1, sponsored by the Center for Synergy at UMDs College of Arts and Humaninties, at the College Park Community Center.

College Park residents and students at the citys University of Maryland gathered Saturday to brainstorm a more pedestrian-friendly U.S. Route 1 with music-filled gazebos, tree lined-sidewalks and a grocery store.

The Think-A-Thon meeting at the College Park Community Center yielded outlines, sketches, lists and a lot of notes as about 60 people among them university staff and elected officials sat down to find creative solutions to the challenges of Route 1.

In their discussions, attendees tried to address challenges such as too much traffic and a lack of independently-owned businesses, and tried to reimagine Route 1 as a space with more aesthetically-pleasing architecture, spaces for people to linger, art and music.

The event, organized by the Center for Synergy at the universitys college of Arts & Humanities, is modeled on previous Think-A-Thons held in Baltimore.

The core idea is how to use the strategies and theories of the arts and humanities to address cultural and social problems, said Sheri Parks, director of the Center for Synergy. When you talk about arts and culture, its a very easy way to enter dangerous spaces.

Parks said organizers framed the discussion early on by asking attendees to consider the roles of arts and culture in the redesign of Route 1. Once the different stakeholders began the discussion, she said they brought up other issues crime, family life, business development and food but the conversation focused on solutions rather than problems.

Route 1 needs to focus more on pedestrians...the streetscape. Trees would be nice, said Liesl Koch of College Park. Maybe if we started calling Route 1 Baltimore Avenue maybe it would create a momentum of its own.

Koch said the reason for her suggestion is the word avenue implies a more walkable space rather than a cut-through for motorists.

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After more than two hours of testimony from Monroeville administrators, residents and representatives from the Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple, council voted unanimously to table any action regarding the temples conditional use applications.

Councilman Jim Johns recused himself from the vote.

Monroeville Solicitor Bruce Dice said council must act on the matter within 45 days.

Councilman Rob Harvey made the motion to table to take advantage of the time to analyze the information we received tonight.

The Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple has requested conditional use approval to cut and fill nearly 25,000 cubic yards of earth near its current location along Abers Creek Road.

The Hindu temple wants to construct a 13,410 square-foot, two-story building; a 1,466 square-foot addition; and a 264 square-foot connecting wing along with four gazebos. The addition would consist of new worship facilities, an office, meditation areas and a kitchen.

Tom Ayoob, attorney for the temple, stated at the hearing that the municipalitys zoning ordinance allows as a conditional use a church and school, as well as major excavation. He added that the municipalitys planning commission recommended approval with conditions.

Raghu Malyala, secretary for the temple, said the additions would help accommodate our growing congregation as well as host community events and other activities not possible at the current facility.

The temple also is asking to consolidate four plots of land into one, new 36.6-acre parcel.

The municipality cited steep slopes as constraints to development.

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Many regard the wearing of a Native American headdress as a fashion accessory deeply offensive(Getty)

Glastonbury Festival will no longer sell Native American headdresses at the event following an appeal.

An online petition was set up calling for the world famous festival to stop selling the headdresses as a fashion accessory over complaints they are an "offensive and disrespectful" form of cultural appropriation that perpetuates "damaging and archaic" racist stereotypes.

The Change.orgpetition, set up by Daniel Round from Stourbridge, attracted just 65 signatures but appears to have done enough to sway the festival organisers.

Writing on the petition's page, Round said he has spoken privately with someone from the festival who informed him Native American headdresses will no longer be sold at Glastonbury stalls.

He said: "Although it is only one UK festival, I hope that if we spread the news of Glastonbury's decision online, positive discussions about the stereotyping of Native Americans and the headdress will grow in the UK and elsewhere."

On the festival's trader information page, Native American headdresses have been added to the list of products and services which cannot be sold at Glastonbury without authorisation, along with alcohol, cigarettes, candle flares, mobile phone changing, flags, and gazebos.

However, a spokesperson for the festival told IBTimes UKthat the story has been "blown out of proportion" and the removal of Native American headdresses is merely down to compliance with the festival's trading standards.

"The wording on our guidelines is very clear," he said. "There are a broad range issues to consider for anyone who applies to be a market trader, such as safety, before we decide if the product is appropriate to sell.

"We have guidelines about what we consider ethical and it is important to show there is an ideology behind our decisions and that it is not just a first come first serve basis.

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