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MEDFORD, WI -- Hurd Windows & Doors announces the introduction of its Luxury Wood Grain Collection, an industry-leading line of wood grain aluminum clad colors. For the first time, homeowners will be able to get the warmth and beauty of a wood grain exterior with all the benefits of Hurd's low maintenance, heavy duty, extruded aluminum cladding that's at least twice as thick as its competitors' roll-form cladding.
Hurd's new wood grain exterior aluminum cladding comes in six finish colors: Antique Walnut, Burl Walnut, Classic Cherry, Knotty Pine, Manor Oak, and Royal Mahogany. Each has its own color and grain pattern to resemble its real wood counterpart. The line, which is rated as an AAMA 2604 grade finish, will be available on all of Hurd's aluminum clad wood windows and patio doors, including its award winning H3.
This is the second expansion this year of Hurd's line of leading designer exterior color options. Earlier this summer, the company unveiled a new Trends Color Palette featuring seven new colors. Additionally, Hurd's extensive color choices include 15 standard colors, five anodized finishes, and the option to custom-match any color.
This solutions-based new product is both a homeowner's and designer's dream, according to Hurd's Dominic Truniger. "The Luxury Wood Grain Collection is something your neighbors won't have because it is very new to market. So, you'll achieve the curb appeal of a luxury, stained, all-wood window without the exterior maintenance hassles. And you'll do it before anyone else in the neighborhood."
Truniger added, "This is yet another demonstration of Hurd's vision to be at the forefront of leading innovations and trends, just as we did with H3, CoreGuard, Ultra-R, and our recently announced Trends Color Palette. We aspire to always be the pacesetters for the industry."
ABOUT HURD WINDOWS & DOORS HWD Acquisition, Inc., recently acquired by Sierra Pacific Industries, is headquartered in Medford, Wisconsin. The company markets products under the Hurd brand, which is recognized for its 95-plus year tradition of building custom wood windows and doors to the highest standards of excellence and quality, as well as the Superseal Windows & Doors brand. Hurd and Superseal products are sold exclusively through more than 400 distributors in the United States and Canada, and currently in 20 countries worldwide. With factories in Medford and Merrill, Wisconsin, Hurd products are manufactured in 600,000 square feet of production space. For more information, visit http://www.hurd.com. Toll free: 1-800-433-4873.
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A new Aoraki Polytechnic course collaboration is helping address the skill shortage in trades.
Aoraki Polytechnic is offering a new free painting and decorating course run in collaboration with Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT).
The fulltime course starts in November this year and part-time courses in Timaru and Ashburton will start in January.
Aoraki Polytech chief executive Alex Cabrera said the polytechnic was committed to recognising the need in the region.
"We are concentrating on the areas where students have the most likelihood of being able to walk into a job at the end of their studies, and that have the greatest impact on, and demand within, our local regions."
The course will cover brush painting skills, preparation skills for painting and decorating, reducing exposure to health and safety hazards in painting, decorating and coating, roller painting skills, use of colour in decoration and working with timber and plaster surfaces.
Related careers it will lead to include trainee painter apprenticeships, home decorating and retail hardware assistant.
The new part-time course offers students the choice of evening classes and is suitable for a range of people.
"With very low unemployment rates, the demand is for part-time or flexible delivery programmes of study," Cabrera said.
The course has had good interest and a strong initial intake with more than 60 inquiries and 17 people already enrolled.
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FLORENCE, S.C. Since she was a young girl, Danielle McCray knew she wanted to be a service-providing business owner. She had no clue exactly what type of service she would provide.
Now, at age 33, she is the owner of the Cleaning Bouquet, a cleaning company that she started two years ago to serve the Pee Dee area.
After serving eight years in the U.S. Navy as an intelligence specialist, McCray moved on to work in human services with the postal service.
When I was at the postal service, I was sitting behind a cubicle all day, McCray said. I knew that I didnt want to retire sitting behind that desk. Basically, I made a conscious decision to step out on faith.
McCray moved back to Florence, her hometown, from Greensboro, North Carolina.
I moved back here because I knew I would have a little more support from my family, McCray said. And I started the cleaning service, and its been going really well.
If someone would have asked her five years ago about starting a cleaning business, McCray said she would have responded, You are crazy. Im not starting a cleaning company.
But Im glad I did, because I get to meet some really great people, McCray said.
The Cleaning Bouquet did not start out as such, however. Before there was The Cleaning Bouquet, there was ProAlliance Commercial Cleaning. McCray owned that company as well, and it focused primarily on office cleaning. Several of the ProAlliance clients wanted residential cleaning as well.
I guess the stars were not aligned for me to do (commercial cleaning), so I switched it, she said, and Im glad I did.
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Rupert Butler, who is retired and moved to the Inland Northwest last year from Texas, has a lush, green lawn. Butler lives in the Modern Water District. One of Moderns water towers loomsnearby. (Full-size photo)
On a corner lot in the center of Spokane Valley, Rupert Butler tends to his large lawn below one of Modern Electric Water Co.s conspicuous water towers. His grass is green and healthy, and Butler takes care to find the right mix of water and fertilizer to keep it that way all summerlong.
He sees plenty of wasteful watering, though, around his neighborhood: sprinklers left on for hours or running in the heat of the day, water splashing onto sidewalks and streets. For someone who has lived and worked in parched areas of Texas and California, he shakes his head at itall.
What kind of irritates me is somebody turning on a lawn sprinkler and just letting it run while they go to work all day, said Butler, who is retired from the USDA Farm ServiceAgency.
But whats to stop them? Water here is abundant and cheap, drawn from a massive aquifer under the valley floor and piped with little or no treatment to half a millionpeople.
Water rates in Spokane County are lower than in any other county in Washington, and just a fourth of what people pay in the Seattle area. All of a households daily consumption for cooking, bathing, washing clothes and dishes, even watering a lawn and garden costs less here than the retail price of a single bottle ofwater.
Water is one of our biggest assets in this area. Its huge, said Bryan St. Clair, superintendent of Moderns water department. Take it from a guy who came from NewMexico.
With enough water to fill Lake Coeur dAlene 13 times over, the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie Aquifer nurses a greenbelt extending from southern Bonner County down through Coeur dAlene and Post Falls and west into Spokane Valley andSpokane.
It can be said that there is no city in the world that has a better water supply than Spokane, a city official boasted in 1909, and the claim rings truetoday.
It is without question one of the best sources of drinking water in the country, said Dan Kegley, the current director of the city of Spokane WaterDepartment.
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In 1906, the industrialist Pierre du Pont saved a private arboretum from destruction by buying it, but what began as an act of preservation soon morphed into a quest for display and opulence.
First came a formal flower garden walk. After he and his wife, Alice, went on a grand tour of Italy, he constructed an open-air theater inspired by the Villa Gori in Siena. The conservatory followed and, in time, came to house a winter garden, an array of potted exotic plants and a ballroom with one of the worlds largest private pipe organs.
Two separate and grandiose Italianate fountain gardens followed, along with other outdoor displays, and the original 200 acres grew to around 1,000.
After du Ponts death in 1954, Longwood Gardens became and remains a popular public attraction. More than one million visitors a year arrive to savor an experience that includes outdoor summer concerts where polychromatic fountains dance to music, and the shows end with fireworks.
This summer, the director and trustees of this institution unveiled what may be the most radical garden of all: an enormous hilly meadow that turns Longwoods gaze to the landscape of the surrounding Brandywine Valley.
More than three miles of mown paths and boardwalk wind through and around an 86-acre field of grasses and wildflowers. Fresh and green when completed in June, the Meadow Garden is now tall and daubed with patches of color the butter yellow of sunflowers, the muddy violet of the joe-pye weed, the intense purple of the ironweed. The meadow is full of bees and butterflies, and goldfinches seem to dance above it.
There is something about the meadow that reaches deep; it is vital and still, nostalgic and bleak like the memories of childhood and of dreams. It has reduced some visitors to tears, said Tom Brightman, an ecologist in charge of its management. Its the influence of the plants, the wind, the sky, the sun, the moon. Theres something underlying there, in the pysche. Perhaps that is why visitors have been arriving in unanticipated numbers to savor it.
But forget the idea of self-sustaining nature. The creation of this meadow was years in the making. Its cultivation will be endless.
The lead designer, landscape architect Jonathan Alderson, has imbued the experience with obvious cues that this is a place where wilderness was crafted. The grass paths may seem simply there, but they were laid out carefully to lead you through a journey where vistas would shift into focus and stop you in your tracks. Its central loop ensures a different way back. A peripheral path between the meadow and its woodland border offers orchestrated views and takes you over three bridges and past four pavilions.
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As Californians struggle with one of the worst droughts in their history, the landscape of the state is changing. Increasinly, in laws and backyards, homeowners are choosing a new look. Green is out. Brown is in.
Los Angeles landscape designer Francesa Corra says California's historic dryspell is actually good for business.
"I get phone calls almost every day from people wanting to take out their lawns," she said, explaining how the lawn industry might adapt. "The industry and professionals at all levels: gardeners, homeowners, nursery people."
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Corra herself has traded thirsty plants for drought tolerant ones in her own yard. She says she's saved nearly half on her water bill by having a garden with no grass.
"If you have a spray irrigation in your front yard, that spray head puts out about the same amount of water as a shower head in your bathroom," she said. "So, when you turn on your sprinklers, you have a basketball team showering on your front lawn."
Homeowner Paul Moser once had the biggest lawn on the block. No more; he's getting ready for a yard filled with cactus and other drought-resistant vegetation.
"California just can't pour water on giant lawns anymore," he said. "It's not responsible."
He says having the lushest lawn on the street is a thing of the past.
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LEWISTON Theres one more chance to shop for summer bargains and view the best vegetables, flowers and crafts at the annual Lewiston Country Fair and Community Yard Sale, sponsored by the Village of Lewiston Recreation Department with assistance from the Lewiston Garden Club.
It will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Village of Lewiston/Red Brick School grounds, 145 N. Fourth St.
One mans trash is another mans treasure and the Community Yard Sale is true recycling time. Members of the community are invited to rent a space to sell their trash and treasures in the annual event. Spaces are $12 for a 10- by 10-foot space, or $15 after Monday. Reserve spaces by calling 754-1990.
The Country Fair also invites amateur gardeners, farmers, bakers, photographers and both creative children and adults to sign up for competitions. Registration for events begins at 8:45 a.m. and ends at 10 a.m. on the day of the fair. Registration forms for all events can be obtained in advance at the Village of Lewiston office or village recreation office, both at 145 N. Fourth St.
As in all country fairs, there will be vegetable and flower judging in a number of categories. Large pumpkins are always welcomed. Flowers will be based on those blooming in September, as well as dried arrangements and house plants. All of the entries must have been grown by the entrant.
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Amateur bakers. There will be cake, pie, cookie and miscellaneous competitions. All ingredients must be from scratch and must be listed. Instant pudding and cake mixes cannot be used. There will be prizes in each division as well as a Best of Show.
Relish and jam competition. This will include pickles, salsa and relishes, jams and preserves. Ingredients must be listed and must be made from scratch.
Scarecrows will be judged in the Avenue of Scarecrows. Families and individuals are invited to submit an entry. Ribbons will be given in various divisions and a best of show ribbon will be awarded to the best scarecrow. Each entrant must supply their own scarecrow.
Photography. Amateur photographers may submit entries in one of four categories nature, people, landscape and photos of Lewiston. A special prize will be awarded in the Lewiston category. Photos may be in color or black and white. All photos must be at least 5 by 7 inches and must be matted or framed. Only two entries can be submitted per category.
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