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Posted: Sunday, September 21, 2014 11:53 pm | Updated: 7:31 am, Mon Sep 22, 2014.

Worker falls off building at University of Alaska campus By Weston Morrow wmorrow@newsminer.com newsminer.com

FAIRBANKS A window washer working on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus fell several stories from the side of the Elvey Building on Friday afternoon.

The man, whose name has not been released, was cleaning windows on the exterior of the building when he fell from his post about 2:15 p.m. Friday. The University police and fire departments responded to the incident. When paramedics arrived on scene the man was conscious and able to talk with first responders, according to Capt. Forrest Kuiper with the University Fire Department.

The man told paramedics he had been cleaning windows on the third story of the building when he fell, Kuiper said.

There was nothing visible that showed where he was working at all, so that was based just on what he told us, Kuiper said.

Paramedics put the man on a backboard and transported him to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. His injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, according to Kuiper.

University spokesperson Marmian Grimes said she did not have information on the victim. Window washers are contracted workers and not university employees.

The Elvey Building is seven stories tall and can be recognized by the large satellite-tracking dish antenna on its roof. It houses the UAF Geophysical Institute.

Contact staff writer Weston Morrowat 459-7520. Follow him on Twitter:@FDNMschools.

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A window cleaner preyed on a 93-year-old customer clearing out her savings account down to the last penny.

Joshua Bruce, 19, is now behind bars after taking the Coventry womans pension card and stealing money from her Post Office account.

After the thefts were discovered, the defendant was caught because police were waiting for him when he returned to his vulnerable victims home.

Bruce, of Jardine Crescent, Tile Hill, was jailed for six months by a judge after he admitted four charges of fraud and one of possessing cannabis.

At the crown court in Leamington, prosecutor Tim Sapwell said Bruce knew his aged victim because he worked for the person who had the contract to clean her windows.

The pensioner had a Post Office account into which her pension was paid every fortnight, and a friend withdrew money from the account on her behalf for her to pay for food deliveries and so on.

Bruce turned up at her home in Allesley on May 21 to clean the windows, and he also cleaned out the guttering.

When he had finished he went inside where she gave him something to eat, and while he was there he walked round the house on the pretext of going to the toilet, during which he took her Post Office card and pin number from her purse.

He withdrew 300 from her Post Office account and later replaced the card, but took it again on three further occasions to withdraw 200, 300 and, on June 2 after checking the account balance, 272.81.

He must have known that last withdrawal represented the cleaning out of her account, said Mr Sapwell.

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Here is a list of road projects around the Heartland scheduled for Monday, September 22.

Route 142 in Butler County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews perform pavement repairs. This section of roadway is located between Haynes Street and County Road 265. Weather permitting, work will take place Monday, Sept. 22 and Tuesday, Sept. 23 from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily.

US 60 in Butler County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation crews repair the shoulder. The section of roadway is located between US 67 and County Road 409. Weather permitting, work will take place Monday, Sept. 15 through Friday, Sept. 26 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cape Girardeau County, MO

Route EE will be closed while crews perform work on the railroad crossing. This section of road is located between Route 25 and County Road 264. Weather permitting, crews will be working on Friday, Sept. 12 and then again on Monday, Sept. 29 through Thursday, Oct. 2 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Cape Girardeau County, MO

Route 74 in Cape County will be reduced to one lane as Missouri Department of Transportation perform bridge repairs. This section of roadway is located between Aquamsi Street and Route 34. Weather permitting, work will take place Monday, Sept. 22 through Thursday, Oct. 2 from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily. The work zone will be marked with signs. Motorists are urged to use extreme caution while traveling near the area.

Southbound Interstate 55 in Cape County will be reduced to one lane as contractor crews perform pavement repairs. This section of roadway is located at the 96 mile marker underneath the Route K overpass. Weather permitting, work will begin at Friday, Oct. 10 through Sunday, Oct. 12 from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily. The work zone will be marked with signs. Motorists are urged to use extreme caution while traveling near the area.

Roadwork continues on Route 21 from Ripley to Carter County from US 60 to US 160 until Nov. 1.

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FLORENCE If a tree falls in the township, does anyone hear it?

The residents of Boulevard Street sure do, but they feel local officials are deaf to their concerns.

The municipality has been removing trees as part of its project to repave the street and fix curbs and sidewalks. It received a grant for the work, which includes Boulevard Street from Front to Fifth streets.

John T. Smith, who has lived on Boulevard Street for 47 years, said the township is removing a lot of old trees that give the street its character. According to resident David Dimon, as many as 27 trees have been taken out.

After hearing residents concerns, Mayor Craig Wilkie, Township Councilman Jerry Sandusky, Township Engineer Anthony LaRosa and Assistant Township Administrator Tom Sahol met with homeowners to discuss the project.

Smith was not satisfied with the response he got.

The tree removal has destroyed the character of the street, he said.

Smith believes municipal workers are chopping down the trees, some taller than the three-story Victorian homes that line the neighborhood, because they dont want to work around them.

But after a professional arborist surveyed the area and reported that a number of trees were diseased, the township had no choice but to cut them down, officials said.

The trees are in such a state of decline that, in all likelihood in the very near future, we could see a failure of the tree, Sahol said. While the work is taking place, the opportunity is now to remove these safety hazards so that we can reinstall as many trees as possible to give the character of Boulevard Street back to what it should be.

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View Larger Education Blog Education databases Helpful Links Local Stories from ThisWeek More Articles By Bill Bush The Columbus Dispatch Monday September 22, 2014 6:02 AM

Standing-room-only crowds at times pack its basement meeting room, and file cabinets housing paper records stretch from wall to wall across its upper floors.

But the Downtown headquarters building of Columbus City Schools doesnt have a basic fire alarm that would sound in an emergency or notify the fire department of a blaze in the middle of the night, a district internal audit noted recently. It also has no fire-suppressing sprinkler system.

The reason? They werent required by city building code or the state fire code at the time of the buildings construction.

Its not required to have an alarming system in it, due to the date it was constructed and under the type of the occupancy it is, which is a business-code occupancy, said Battalion Chief Tracy Smith, spokeswoman for the Columbus Fire Division. It is Ohio Revised Code compliant.

The building has a 150-person assembly permit for school-board meetings, Smith said. A fire alarm is required for public assemblies of 300 people or more, she said.

From the fire department aspect, we would love to have every single building in the city of Columbus with an alarm system and sprinkler system, but the law doesnt require it, Smith said.

The three-story, 28,200-square-foot building was constructed in 1960, and its meeting room is often filled to capacity, with the crowd spilling into the hallways.

A district internal audit into the practices of the personnel department reported last month that paper records covering thousands of district employees could be destroyed in a fire because of the lack of an alarm and sprinkler system. The records arent backed up off-site, the audit said.

The personnel department, housed on the first floor of the building, responded to the audit this school year by storing all documents for newly hired employees electronically, allowing them to be backed up off-site. It is looking into scanning older documents into electronic files so they, too, can be backed up off-site.

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By Dexter R. Matilla |Philippine Daily Inquirer

FEU Theater Guild PHOTOS BY DEXTER R. MATILLA

An exciting title that explores these characters is Moymoy Lulumboy: Ang Batang Aswang, by Segundo Matias Jr.

Launched during the 35th Manila International Book Fair recently by Lampara Publishing House Inc., Moymoy Lulumboy has the potential to be a popular series with the possibility of crossing over to film and on stage as proven by the Far Eastern University Theater Guild whose short performance of the storys prologue had guests clamoring for more.

Moymoy is from the world of the enchanted or Gabun but circumstances force the tibaro Montar to leave him as an infant in the care of a human named Tracy, who works as a bookstore staffer in a Makati mall. Montar says that the future of Gabun rests in the safety of the child and that he will be back to retrieve him when the time is right.

There will understandably be comparisons with a certain boy wizard from the West and Matias Jr. recognizes this. He says that it is one of his biggest obstacles when he was writing the storywhich was how to make it not similar to any preexisting text.

Its difficult he admits but any such similarities end there as Moymoy has much to learn about his past and future while embracing his role in Gabun, a once-peaceful place that has been cursed by the gods due to the actions of one greedy tibaro.

Illustrating the book is Jomike Tejido, an architect who finished his studies at University of Santo Tomas and who has done work as both writer and artist in almost 70 childrens books, including Tagu-Taguan (Best Reads 2010); Pundido (Golden Book 2002)l Ma-Me-Mi-Mumu!; Foldabots Toy Books; and the Jepoy Dyip series.

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Tejido is also a painter; his paintings on banig have been exhibited in solo shows in Manila and in group shows in Tokyo, Paris and US. Through his works, he aims to showcase the richness of Filipino culture. His banig paintings were featured in the Lampara book, Mabuting Pilipino, written by singer-songwriter Noel Cabangon.

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