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NORTH MYRTLE BEACH The floors are slippery these days at the former North Myrtle Beach Primary School, where workers are sandblasting in the corridors to make way for new no-wax, vinyl flooring.

Furniture and other items have been stashed in the auditorium and media center, and painting has begun in the halls, with some walls already awash in a new color scheme of soft spring green, white and baby blue.

Were trying to improve and reconfigure the school, said Matt Dean, executive director of facilities for Horry County Schools. Theres mostly interior work going on, but there will be some site work, too.

Similar work is in progress at North Myrtle Beachs former elementary and intermediate buildings this summer, as about $5.6 million is being spent to convert all three schools to serve multiple grade levels. A committee of parents and school officials last year recommended adding attendance lines for the area to better use the space, ease overcrowding and achieve other benefits.

The change for the first time alters the configuration of the North Myrtle Beach cluster, which has mirrored that of the Myrtle Beach cluster, where all students attend the same schools. North Myrtle Beach Primary served students in pre-kindergarten through first grade, while students in grades two and three attended North Myrtle Beach Elementary School, and those in grades four and five went to North Myrtle Beach Intermediate School.

From an educational standpoint, it makes more sense, said board member Harvey Eisner, as it gives teachers and administrators more years to work with students, and it eases the burden on the primary school, which had 894 children last year some as young as 3 years old and all needing constant supervision.

Dean said school capacity should be around 80 to 90 percent, but the primary school - now known as Ocean Drive Elementary School was at 99 percent capacity and still will have the most students when it opens in the fall. The elementary school, renamed Riverside Elementary, was at 92 percent capacity with 700 students, while the intermediate school now Waterway Elementary was at 60 percent capacity with 673 students.

Ocean Drive has the most school transfer requests to date, with 99 students transferring into the school and 28 transferring out, according to the district. Riversides transfers are at 51 into the school, with 67 out, while 49 students are transferring to Waterway and 65 transferring out of the school.

School officials say that there are many reasons parents request transferring from one school to another, including convenience to their work locations and daycare options. Ocean Drive Principal Renea Fowler said some of her parents also may feel they just want to keep their students at the former primary school because of their age.

They are just more involved at that point, Fowler said.

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GARY | The Performance Companies Inc. recently was certified as a Women's Business Enterprise.

Commonly known asPerformance Plus, the company specializes in contract janitorial services, has a high rise window cleaning division and provides post-construction final cleaning for projects in northern Indiana and southern Michigan.

It has been family owned and operated since 1917, when it operated under the name Gary Window Cleaning.

The certification allows Performance Plus to perform services that can be counted toward minority business participation.

Services include building cleaning, air filter sales, floor cleaning, window cleaning and sale of janitorial supplies.

The companywas reincorporated as Performance Plus in 2001 by Michael Saks. Paula Broutman, Saks' daughter, who represents the fourth generation of the family, became president of the company in January 2011.

The Performance Companies has offices in Gary, South Bend, Michigan City and Indianapolis and can provide service to lower Michigan.

For more information, visit http://www.performancep.com or call (800) 358-6951.

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Think for a second how much energy is literally washed down the drain when you take a shower. Not the water itself just the energy thats lost when you heat up said water, pump it through a series of pipes to your showerhead, and then let all that warm goodness run straight down your body and into a hole in the floor. By some estimates, 80 to 90 percent of the energy it takes to heat that water ends up going straight to the sewer. Considering the fact that the energy required to heat water is one of the biggest energy expenditures at home (right behind heating/cooling/ventilation), thats a monumental waste of juice. But not to worry; theres a new device on the market that could help to recapture some of that wasted energy.

Its called EcoDrain, and while its definitely not a new concept, its a fresh new take on an old idea, and finally makes waste heat recovery a viablepossibility for regular homeowners.

Waste heat recovery systems and drain heat exchangers have been around for years, but unfortunately havent been widely adopted in residential spaces because theyre typically somewhat expensive and difficult to install. To this day, most heat recovery systems are designed to be installed vertically, which limits the places they can be installed to newly-constructed homes, or bathrooms with at least five feet of vertical drain runs. In other words, theyre either difficult or downright impossible to retrofit into your home.

EcoDrain, on the other hand, is designed to be installed horizontally, which allows it to be mounted much closer to the source of hot water, i.e. your shower drain. Because of this, its able to catch waste water much sooner than traditional systems when the water is at its hottest and thereby recycle more energy. EcoDrain is also relatively easy to install according to its creators. It requires no electricity and has no moving parts, so as long as youre a savvy DIYer whos comfortable doing your own plumbing work, putting one under your shower should be fairly painless.

Check out the video below for a simple explanation of how it works.

As you can see, despite EcoDrains radically different design, it works justlike a traditional waste heat exchanger. With traditional systems, as warm water flows down the waste drain, incoming cold water flows through a spiral copper tube wrapped tightly around the copper section of the waste drain. This preheats the incoming cold water that goes to the water heater or a fixture. Ecodrain works in almost exactly the same way, but does away with the spiral tube in favor of a full-on wastewater reservoir, which helps maximize heat transfer to the fresh water pipe. Furthermore, in addition to this large waste heat changer, EcoDrains creators also incorporated their own turbulator design into the unit, which agitates the water and increases the rate of heat transfer even further, but without reducing water pressure.

The company claims that by installing just one EcoDrain heat exchanger in your home, you can recover as much as45% of the waste heat from your shower drain. Theyre currently selling units at a base price of $440, which is a bit on the spendy side, but could definitely be a worthwhile investment in the long term if you use a lot of hot water.

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Exit 28 along Interstate 64 East, the first off-ramp outside Jefferson County, used to be relatively sedate.

To the left, a Pilot truck stop, the Shelby County Flea Market behind a chain link gate and at the end of the road, an equine and livestock supply store. To the right, a gas station and miles and miles of neighborhoods with large lots, leading out into the Kentucky countryside and the American Saddlebred capital of the world.

Come July 31, the road to the right will become much more active. That is the ribbon cutting date for The Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass, the brand new shopping center located on Veechdale Road just off the interstate. The 374,000-square-foot outlet retail destination will consist of seven buildings containing 80 stores featuring top names like Nike, J.Crew, Brooks Brothers and Banana Republic.

Ask Simpsonville City Administrator David Eaton about it, and hell tell you that he didnt believe it would ever happen.

About three years ago, Gary Skoien, president of the Horizon Group Properties development company, came to visit Eaton and Mayor Steve Eden, expressing interest in the area for an outlet retail center.

He left, and the mayor and I looked at each other and honestly, we didnt think wed ever see them again, Eaton said. Six months later, he came back and said Weve decided this is where were going to locate.

Eaton said that the Horizon group, which has built other outlet centers in Oklahoma City, Okla., El Paso, Texas and Woodstock, Ga., chose Simpsonville for a number of features. They liked the fact that it was the first exit outside of Jefferson County. They liked the close proximity to college campuses. It is centrally located between the major population centers of Louisville, Frankfort and Lexington. It is close enough to Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee to attract out-of-state shoppers.

They felt it was a very good location to be at, and they jumped on it, Eaton said.

Horizon has enjoyed success with outlet destinations in recent years, and Eaton said he believes the success of the The Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass will be found in the kind of shopping experience outlet mall shopping encourages.

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Artist Miriam Balcazar, sitting, continues her work, with the help of her visiting sister Eugenia Escarra, on a porcelain tile mural on a sound-wall between Indiana Avenue and Union Street along the south side of Curran Street in La Caada Flintridge on Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (Raul Roa / Staff Photographer / July 9, 2014)

Artist Miriam Balcazar has been hard at work on a porcelain tile mural on a sound wall between Indiana Avenue and Union Street along the south side of Curran Street in La Caada Flintridge.

The mural will be almost 90 feet long by 4 feet high and will take about 3 months to complete.

Balcazar, a ceramics teacher for the Community Center of La Caada Flintridge, was commissioned by a design company working with the city's Public Works Department to create a 90-foot-long tile mosaic to be installed at the sound wall.

The scene depicts various aspects of Foothills life, from hiking and biking to dog walking and horseback riding. The art piece will embellish an overlap in two sound walls through which pedestrians pass, making it the largest piece of public art in La Caada, Public Works Director Edward Hitti told the Valley Sun in May.

"The mosaic reflects residents' activities along the trail system in the city," Hitti said. "It is a creative element (intended) to soften the height of the 16-foot-tall wall in the city right-of-way."

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Motorists this weekend no longer need to worry about traffic from the Squirrel Hill Tunnel's last full closure on the outbound side, which has been postponed.

PennDOT spokesman Steve Cowan said crews working on the outbound side are not far enough along with their concrete work and tile placement to do the paving of the inside of the tunnel.

We want to make sure that we don't do any damage to the pavement, he said. The work that they're doing with the tile placement and the concrete requires lift equipment inside the tunnel.

Another date for the closure has not been set, Cowan said.

Drivers can still expect construction this week, including the first part of three major improvements to the Parkway West, which was scheduled to begin at midnight Wednesday.

The $3.72 million project to add an outbound lane between Rosslyn Farms and I-79 will continue Thursday night from midnight until 5 a.m., Cowan said.

Motorists will see significant investments that will ultimately provide safety improvements and much-needed repairs on the Parkway West and Fort Pitt Tunnel, he said.

He said there will be shoulder reconstruction, drainage improvement and sign updates.

Rebecca Jordan, 40, of St. Clairsville, Ohio, commutes for an hour and a half to work every morning and said although traffic from the construction will be a pain, the work ultimately will help commuters.

I think it'll be the best thing they ever did out here, to add another lane, she said.

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