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LE MARS, Iowa (KTIV) -
Fire crews credit a working sprinkler system for keeping a fire contained at a Le Mars, Iowa business early Monday morning.
"Appears to be an accidental fire, electrical equipment malfunction with this computer tower. Of course, these are all plastic and things like that so we had a lot of heavy black smoke, but not a lot of fire. The sprinkler did its job and slowed the fire down and the guys were able to finish putting it out with one hand line," said David Schipper, Le Mars Fire and Rescue Chief.
Schipper said if it wasn't for the sprinkler system, the fire could have spread to other parts of the building, but instead it was contained to the upstairs room.
Despite the minimal damage, Icon Ag and Turf, which sells farm and yard equipment, was open for business as usual Monday morning.
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To some folks, watching grass grow could seem sort of tedious, especially if they just planted it.
Ask Andrea Small about it, however, and it could lead to insights on subjects from saving shorelines to cutting carbon emissions.
Thats the cool part, said Small, surrounded by acre after acre of marsh grass near Guana Lake in St. Johns County. The ratio of how much you have to take versus how much you benefit, because it is a fast-growing plant its such a good return.
Exactly what the ratio is really isnt clear yet, but it could be fairly soon.
Small, manager of the states Northeast Florida Aquatic Preserves, is overseeing a two-year project to draw scientific lessons on growing and harvesting the saltmarsh cordgrass that lines miles of First Coast waterfront.
The project was launched last month with a $10,000 federal grant to cover the cost to monitor grasses, restore two acres as a demonstration and publish a guide on best practices for cultivating the cordgrass, known formally as Spartina alterniflora.
Spartina is used a lot now in places that arent natural, from highway berms and ridges to manicured golf courses, said Forest Beeman, vice president of Beemans Nursery in New Smyrna Beach.
Thats okay, Beeman said, if someones ready to water the stand of grass regularly and tend it carefully.
But thats not the life cordgrass was built for, or the muddy, crawly environment where it flourishes.
Its in the muck, it seems, where Spartina is most precious.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. The cat room at Lake County Animal Care and Control is filled with felines in need of new and loving homes.
The cats range in age from 11 weeks to 3 years, with many of the cats already spayed or neutered in preparation of going to new homes.
In addition to spaying or neutering, cats that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are microchipped before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
If you're looking for a new companion, visit the shelter. There are many great pets there, hoping you'll choose them.
In addition to the animals featured here, all adoptable animals in Lake County can be seen here: http://bit.ly/Z6xHMb .
The following cats at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption (other cats pictured on the animal control Web site that are not listed here are still on hold).
Male domestic short hair mix kitten
This male domestic short hair mix is 4 months old.
He has gold eyes, a white and gray coat, weighs 4.2 pounds and has been neutered.
He's in cat room kennel No. 6, ID No. 40066.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) A dilapidated 110-room, 70,000-square-foot estate is back on the market, but an architect says the $20 million price tag doesn't include the tens of millions more it needs in repairs.
The 34-acre Lynnewood Hall estate in the Elkins Park neighborhood has been in decline since the original heirs sold it in 1944, The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/1ondcxa) reported Sunday. The home, completed around 1900, once held one of the nation's largest private art collections. In its heyday, the house was dripping with silk, velvet and gilded moldings, the rooms furnished with chairs from King Louis XV's palace, Persian rugs and Chinese pottery and the halls crammed with art by Raphael, Rembrandt and Donatello.
But members of the Widener family who owned the property died or moved away. The estate was first sold to an association that wanted to build a Protestant university. Then it was sold to a housing developer followed by a seminary and another church. The property went through decades of bankruptcy proceedings and was repossessed, auctioned and sold for pennies to creditors all while descending further into disrepair.
But those who have seen the interior in recent years said most of the house's fine, historic fixtures are still there, even though some of the rooms are destroyed by water damage and broken windows.
Mary DeNadai, an architect who specializes in historic restoration, said it would take about $50 million to restore the home to its former glory, but time is running out.
"If it continues to be neglected as it is, it will be beyond salvage" within five to 10 years, she said.
David Rowland, president of the Old York Road Historical Society, said he has seen possible buyers come and go over the years.
"It was always loved more by the people who'd never been inside it than by the people who actually lived there," Rowland said.
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Typically, those who acquire ancestral homes modernize them. Keith and Janet Childs did the reverse, aging his grandparents' mid-20th-century split-level back about 200 years.
Except for an attached garage, the Blue Bell house now resembles the historic mansions of Germantown, such as Cliveden, site of a Revolutionary War battle. Gen. Washington lost that fight, but he won the war and the hearts of his countrymen - including Keith Childs.
"George Washington is in every room in this house," Janet Childs says.
Images of Washington include a copy of Charles Willson Peale's portrait, a depiction of him presiding over the Constitutional Convention, a painting in the family room of Washington on horseback, and, behind the canopied bed in the master bedroom, one of him kneeling in prayer.
To enhance the Revolutionary War-era decor, the couple chose Williamsburg paints: white for walls, with soft gray or sage green trim in living areas, and rustic red for the kitchen. (A built-in spice rack was crafted by one of Keith's friends.)
Janet applied blue milk paint to a TV cabinet Keith made to resemble a Colonial cupboard. He also built a Colonial-style liquor cage, a storage cupboard for spirits with a pull-down grate that can be locked, and he carved the small stone sink next to it.
Keith, 52, a stone mason with his own business, bought the three-bedroom house from his mother, Charlotte, in 1991. She had inherited it from her parents, Max and Hilda Mordhorst, who had the stone home built in a new subdivision in 1955.
"I spent a lot of time here as a kid," he says.
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The owners of downtown Dallas long-vacant West End Marketplace are considering a plan to revive the building as a mixed-use project.
The 240,000-square-foot shopping center and movie complex has been closed since 2006.
Recent proposals to convert the huge building in Dallas West End historic district into a hotel or office space havent gotten off the ground.
Now the owners have hired The Retail Connection to market the eight-story building.
They have been engaged by us to find retail tenants, said Bill Nabors of ECOM Real Estate, which represents the owners of the West End Marketplace. There is a lot of stuff going on but nothing we are ready to announce.
We are looking at everything right now, Nabors said.
The West End Marketplace opened in 1986 as Dallas first festival marketplace retail center.
The vacant warehouse building with wood-beam construction was converted into shops, eateries and entertainment venues.
An interior atrium was built and a 10-screen cinema occupied part of the building.
A Planet Hollywood nightclub and restaurant was on the ground floor.
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The Four Corners Tavern Group operates 10 high-volume venues in Chicago. Its director, Ryan Indovina, offered examples of mistakes that he's seen new restaurateurs make time and again.
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"People typically raise just the amount of funding they need to open a restaurant," he said. "They don't always consider that they need a reservoir of cash to run the restaurant for the first three to six months."
He also said that rookie restaurant owners often create unrealistic timelines for their openings.
"Take into consideration lead time for permits, liquor licenses, construction, marketing build-out and more," he said. "These things never happen on time, so build in lots of extra time for unexpected obstacles."
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He also had some advice that could be considered fitting for any restaurant opening in his home town of Chicago.
"If you're opening in a colder city, make sure to build in enough time so you're not stuck opening in January and February, when no one leaves their house," he said. He also put a lot of stock in picking the correct location.
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"Don't be swayed by a great deal if it's not in a good location," he said. "The perfect location is worth the higher price tag. The restaurant business is the real estate business."
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