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Major Corporate Moves from: Aetna, Akerman, Axxess Technology, Blue Stream Labs, ChannelAdvisor, Ciena, DLA Piper, Elephant Insurance, EMC, Mannan Pharmaceuticals, Maplehurst Bakeries and Wal-Mart eCommerce

The term of the lease commences on the completion date, which is targeted to be Oct. 15, 2015. The initial term of the lease is for seven years.

Beginning on the Commencement Date, minimum annual rental payments will be $23.50 per square foot.

Duke Realty Corp.s Indianapolis office has been selected as the general contractor.

Construction of Maplehurst Bakeries new facility will begin this month with delivery slated for late March 2015. The building will include a 50,000-square-foot freezer/cold dock area, office and warehouse/production space and 32' clear height.

Bryan Poynter with Cassidy Turley represented Maplehurst Bakeries. Duke Realty was represented by Rich Prestholt and Blaine Paul and Kate Ems.

The flex buildings are located within the Sunnyvale Business Park, a nine-building office park owned by Principal Real Estate Investors that totals approximately 600,000 square feet.

The recent deal follows Wal-Mart's 182,265-square-foot lease of two other buildings in the same park, 600 and 860 W. California Ave.

Luke Wilson of Colliers International in Redwood City represented Wal-Mart. Susan Gregory, Kevin Moul and Dave Sandlin of Colliers International in San Jose represented Principal Real Estate Investors.

Currently located on the 12th floor of 1 S. Wacker Dr., Aetna is one of the nation's leading providers of health, dental, group life, disability, and long-term care benefits. The company is set to relocate from 1 S. Wacker in March 2015.

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At a recent special board meeting, the Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose (BHM) School Board announced their decision to place a bond question on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.

This decision came after months and months of research and discussions with staff and district administrators.

The proposed $33 million bond has a variety of projects that touch every school in the district. The number one project in the bond is the improvements to safety and security in the schools. Discovery, Hanover and Tatanka Elementary Schools would have the entryway to the school remodeled. Parents and the public who visit the school would have to enter through the office and check-in before making their way to any part of the building. Buildings around the district would also see additions and improvements to indoor and outdoor security cameras. Schools such as the high school and Northwinds Elementary would also see improvements made to their school intercom systems.

The demand for technology is greater and greater each year. More computers are needed and upgrades need to be made. Infrastructure, servers, switches, and routers are beginning to show their age as more and more devices are accessing the system since students are being encouraged to bring their own devices to school. Funds for technology would help make necessary upgrades and replacements district-wide while keeping up with the pace of technology.

Another major project within the bond funding is deferred maintenance. Deferred maintenance is composed of projects that are postponed by the district because the appropriate funding is not available. Over the years, these projects add up and eventually need to be addressed. Some of the deferred maintenance projects district-wide include roof replacements (seven out of nine schools); HVAC (heating ventilation and air conditioning) upgrades; parking lot and sidewalk repairs and replacements; floor, window and door upgrades; outdoor equipment replacement; and mechanical system upgrades.

There are also needs for some building capacity upgrades. Buffalo High School (BHS) is in need of more classroom and physical education space. One large classroom at BHS has been identified that could be remodeled into multiple classrooms. Space would be added on the northeast corner of the Performing Arts Center that would serve as a multi-purpose fine arts classroom. The high school would also see an addition of gymnasium space on the north end of the school by the current gymnasium and activity center. Tatanka Elementary is also in need of additional classroom space. They would see four additional classroom spaces, music space, restrooms, storage and a gymnasium added onto the north end of the school.

Annually, activity venues get a few tweaks here and there, but any major improvements are delayed due to high costs and budget constraints. The pool, located at the middle school, is in need of a new water filtration system, HVAC improvements, family locker rooms, updates to the existing locker rooms (flooring, shower tile, fixtures and lockers), and storage. An addition to the outside of the pool area (southwest corner of the middle school) would provide better public access to the pool area.

Other activity site and facility upgrades at BHS would include adding a track and two multi-purpose playing fields (one field would be a synthetic playing field and the other would be sand-peat), relocating three softball fields to the west end of the school (currently a practice field), making improvements to two baseball fields, and grading and improving irrigation to all the field spaces at the high school and also the fields located at the middle school. The addition and improvements of these spaces would help alleviate the current overcrowded, overused fields at both schools.

Supt. Thielman says that the district is taking its direction on these district-wide improvements from the community. This past winter, we contracted the Morris Leatherman Company to conduct a community-wide survey, comments Thielman. Their results revealed that the community was very positive in their responses in regards to supporting facility and technology upgrades through a bond referendum. Over the last several months, the board has been doing their homework and researching, in great detail, the needs of the district. They believe this is the right time to put the decision in front of the voters.

The $33 million bond for facilities and technology would have an estimated tax impact of about $88 per year on a $200,000 home (thats just over $7 per month). If approved, the funding would be spent over a period of about five years.

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Flood waters have receded in the southern part of Jefferson County, but dozens of homeowners have been left with basements that need cleaned out.

More than 3 inches of rain Wednesday morning caused Short Creek to come out of its banks in Adena and Dillonvale. Flood waters covered streets in both communities and sent water into basements.

John Parker, county Emergency Management Agency director, said about 70 homes had basement flooding. Volunteer fire departments from Jefferson and Harrison counties worked throughout the day to pump water out of basements.

The American Red Cross Jefferson County Chapter provided cleanup kits to residents in Adena and Dillonvale and also sent its cantina to provide food and beverages for the firefighter.

Adena firefighter, in addition to pumping out residents' basements, had to deal with flood waters in its fire station.

Parker said crews now will concentrate on cleaning up debris left by the flood waters. A contractor has been hired to remove a private bridge that fell into a creek near Glen Robins on county Road 1.

Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla said Dillonvale was the hardest hit. He said one basement had 5 feet of water. But the sheriff said it could have been worse if not for efforts to clean trees and other debris out of creeks in the past several years.

"Whenever we had the creeks cleaned out, that helped out a lot," Abdalla said.

"It always could have been worse. Now it is just the cleanup," the sheriff said.

The county health department offered advice for homeowners with water wells or cisterns that may have come in contact with flood waters.

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Its incumbent on developers to make sure whatever site preparation work they do is compliant, says Nanaimos mayor in the wake of the city levying its third tree removal fine this year.

The City of Nanaimo issued a $10,000 fine to Maplewood Properties after an investigation found the company cleared a site on Kenworth Road knowingly contrary to city bylaws.

It was the third time this year the city has taken enforcement action on a company for tree removal. The city fined Windley Contracting Ltd. $10,500 for removing 20 trees from a watercourse leave strip on Songbird Place and encroaching into the watercourse setback, while Carlo Construction Ltd. was fined $11,325 for the unauthorized removal of trees on Reynolds Road and starting work on city streets without a permit.

All of the companies have claimed communication issues with city staff, according to city manager Ted Swabey, who said its something of which they are conscious.

The municipality ultimately holds property owners responsible for ensuring work is compliant with city requirements, although it also reports the majority of development in the area moves ahead with necessary approvals and permits in place.

Before anyone starts removing trees, they must realize there is the potential for contravening bylaws, Ruttan said. So I encourage developers and builders when they are involved in site preparation that they take the time to assess what work will be done and if it requires the removal of existing trees, that somebody review the bylaws and make sure they are in conformance before they go ahead and take the trees down.

Maplewood Properties plans to dispute its fine.

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The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London. Photo: Noel Foster

Actors campaigning in support of the Orange Tree Theatre have accused Arts Council England of failing to engage with the theatre community, after they received a standard, almost pro forma letter from ACE in response to their concerns about the removal of the venues funding.

Equitys west and south-west London branch chair Andrew Macbean, who is leading the campaign in support of the Richmond upon Thames venue, labelled the funding bodys attitude as a serious concern.

He said that ACE had failed to explain why it had chosen to remove its financial support: Your words lack any real drive or passion to help the theatre I am incredulous you are content to let the chance to have a constructive discussion with significant representation of the industry pass you by.

Macbeans concerns were echoed by Equity general secretary Christine Payne, who said she was surprised at the lack of detail in ACEs response in the face of such strength of feeling and said she believed the branch was right to press this further.

Macbean wrote to ACE last month urging the body to explain its decision to remove Orange Tree Theatres entire, annual 380,000 grant from next year. The letter was signed by around 800 theatremakers, including David Tennant, Simon Russell Beale, Penelope Wilton and Derek Jacobi.

It has since gained further support from some 150 actors and others working in the industry including playwright Howard Brenton, Liverpool and Everyman Theatre artistic director Gemma Bodinetz and actors John Lithgow and Martin Shaw.

Arts council chair Peter Bazalgette responded, saying the amount of money applied for by organisations to ACEs funding programme considerably exceeded the available budget.

He said: Where organisations were unsuccessful in their applications to [this programme], it is by no means the end of our funding relationship with them.

Bazalgette added that ACE was committed to working with Orange Tree Theatre artistic director Paul Miller to help him and the organisation realise its ambition and retain the strong support it has from local audiences.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- One person was hurt in an apartment fire, but the good news is that the building's sprinkler system did its job.

It happened just after 10 p.m. at 90th Street and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, just west of the Loop 101 Pima Freeway. Firefighters arrived to find the fire mostly contained to the third-floor unit where it started.

With the head start that the sprinkler system gave them, crews easily kept the flames from spreading to other apartments.

Because of the size of the apartment complex, firefighters from both Scottsdale and Phoenix responded.

One resident suffered minor injuries and was taken to Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Hospital.

"Neighbors heard the smoke alarm go off," Jay Ducote of the Scottsdale Fire Department said. "So just a reminder to always check the batteries of your smoke detectors for that first notification when there's smoke in the house."

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Dylan Zylstra spends a good deal of time in the weight room, especially in the off-season that starts almost as soon as the regular seasonends. (Full-size photo)(All photos)

There are days when Dylan Zylstra asks himself, Wouldnt it be awesome to just go toclass?

Just class, nothing else. No endless sessions in the film room, no lifting heavy plates in the weight room and the dining room. No getting knocked on his butt atpractice.

And definitely no bear crawls in an overheated gym room at 11 p.m. inFebruary.

In other words, nofootball.

Noway.

As painful and miserable as it can get sometimes, the feeling of running through the tunnel on Saturday gets you through almost anything, said Zylstra, a senior defensive lineman at EasternWashington.

And when the cheeringends?

Pretty soon, Im going to be looking for a job, and I think Im going to have an edge because I know to work hard, Zylstrasaid.

And smart. Somehow, for going on five years, the 22-year-old Zylstra has balanced a 40-hour-a-week football season with a full class load, a girlfriend, a social life and a black lab named Asher who loves to go pheasanthunting.

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There are few things as delicate as a bats ear. Thin, dark brown skin is stretched over fragile cartilage. In certain light, they are nearly translucent. The inside ridges look like a washboard for a dolls house.

I know this because I nursed an injured baby bat back to health. I got a close look at the dainty, cavernous ears, miniature teeth and fuzzy body of our local long-eared myotis bat.

It had been a week of nocturnal activity. Two bats had perished in our overhead fan above the bed. Ill spare you the details on that. The next night, I was startled by a fluffy ball careening across my bathroom floor. The bats movements were jerky; he pivoted on clawed feet, spreading his wings wide across the tiles.

I wrapped him in a towel and put him outside, hoping hed fly off into the night. But the next morning, he was still there, nestled between the deck and the house siding.

After consulting the internet, Wolf Hollow Wildlife Rehabilitation Center and Islands Sounder resident wildlife expert Cali Bagby, I filled a dropper with water and tried to rehydrate him. He eagerly opened his tiny mouth, gulping down drop after drop. The rows of tiny teeth and his miniscule pink tongue were incredible.

After transporting him to the branches of a nearby tree, at the recommendation of Wolf Hollow, we hoped for the best. Incredibly, he was gone the next day. I like to think he is patrolling the night sky near our house.

The experience brought up a lot of questions and concerns. Facebook comments ranged from Install a bat house to Does a vampire live with you? to Contact the health department immediately; rabies are a concern.

After talking with the county health department, it turns out I probably shouldnt have been handling the bat, but the risk of rabies is low.

If you find a bat that is not doing well and is around people, it could have rabies, said County Environmental Health Specialist Gary Covington. In the summer, we get maybe an average of one possible victim per month. It is generally from presumed exposure after finding a bat in sleeping quarters. But weve never had any people in San Juan County turn up with a positive rabies infection.

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A man in his early 50s was found deceased on a roof of a home near Waxahachie Global High School Wednesday afternoon.

BY SCOTT DORSETT Daily Light Photographer

A man in his early 50s was found deceased on a roof of a home near Waxahachie Global High School Wednesday afternoon.Once firefighters reached the roof, they anchored a rope on either side of the house to lower the man down on a backboard. The process took about an hour.

Posted: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:13 pm | Updated: 5:55 pm, Wed Aug 20, 2014.

Plumber dies on Waxahachie rooftop BY SHELLY CONLON Daily Light Digital News Editor Waxahachie Newspapers Inc.

A man in his early 50s was found deceased on a roof of a home near Waxahachie Global High School Wednesday afternoon.

Emergency responders were called to the 700 block of N. Gibson St. at about 1:30 p.m. and found the man dead on arrival. As of press time, a name had not been released because next of kin had not been notified.

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Its important to highlight that North Devon Council doesnt provide a pest control service. "

ANDY Cole, leader for environmental protection at North Devon Council, said: Rats are no more an issue here in North Devon than any other area. Figures also show there has been no recent increase in complaints to us about them.

Its important to highlight that North Devon Council doesnt provide a pest control service. So, if people see rats in or around their home or business, they are advised to either take pest control measures themselves or seek advice from a reputable pest control contractor.

Mr Cole said the council had a duty to investigate alleged infestations.

He said: We can ensure the home or business owner takes appropriate action. In these instances, people should phone 01271 388870 or email customerservices@northdevon..uk.

A statement on Torridge District Councils website gave advice on how people can reduce the risk of rat infestations.

It said: You can help yourself by ensuring that your premises are in good repair, making it difficult for rats to gain access and making sure air bricks are intact.

Remove any sources of food or water, clear areas, which may offer shelter or nesting materials such as piles of timber or any areas of your garden, which are overgrown.

Do not leave food out for the birds or other animals.

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