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Gertrude Navikas is proud of the work she and her employees accomplish for her Dust Bunnys Maid Service clients.
"It's a deep clean every time. We do the hands and knees," Navikas said.
The Lowell resident began cleaning houses a few years ago as a way to pay her way through nursing school.
Three years ago, though, Navikas made the decision to go into business to give herself the flexibility she needed to care for her ailing father. "It was what I chose to do. ... Dad died in November," she said.
Navikas is all about flexibility for herself, her employees and her clients.
"As a single mom, it allows me to be with my kids. I have a son who is a freshman at IU, a daughter who's a sophomore at the high school and a 7-year old at St. Marys (Elementary School in Crown Point)," Navikas said.
The businesswoman said she hires both women and men, most of which hold other part-time jobs. Some are single parents. "I work around their schedules with their other jobs. I want to be able to help them because I understand," Navikas said.
Unlike some cleaning services, all employees are insured and bonded, and there are no client contracts. "I don't want to lock people in," she said.
The three years have held one surprise, Navikas said. "I did not know I would grow as fast as I did."
Dust Bunnys Maid Service has clients reaching west to Crete and Grant Park in Illinois, north to Hammond and south to DeMotte, Roselawn and Wheatfield. Most are residential, but she has commercial clients as well.
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Man rushed to hospital after becoming trapped in gate
3:58pm Saturday 17th May 2014 in News By Lee Irving
A MAN was rushed to hospital after a five-bar metal gate lodged onto his foot.
Dorset Fire and Rescue Service was called to the incident at 1:45pm in Tolpuddle after the gate got stuck on the mans foot when he became trapped between the gate and a ride-on lawn mower.
Two crews from Bere Regis and Wimborne attended the scene and stabilised the man so he could receive treatment from paramedics.
They then removed the gate from his foot and transported him to a nearby ambulance before he was taken to hospital.
A spokesman for Dorset Fire and Rescue Service said: At approximately 1.45pm the service was called to a person trapped between a ride-on lawn mower and a metal gate. On arrival, one male was located trapped between a five-bar gate and the mower. Crews assisted ambulance personnel in stabilising the injury while pain treatment was given by paramedics.
Crew removed the gate from the casualty's foot using small gear and assisted with transportation of casualty from field to Ambulance.
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The Hanley's David Lownds and exhibitor Diane Hackney, from Muffin Tops, at last year's event.
People looking to sell, move, improve or extend a property inside or out are being urged to attend the second Sentinel Home and Gardens Show being staged this Sunday.
The free family day out is being held once again at The Moat House hotel on Festival Park between 11am and 4pm and has attracted dozens of firms offering a variety of goods and services in the property sector.
The range of exhibitors covers everything from estate agents and finance experts to talk about mortgages, to DIY suppliers such as B&Q, double glazing manufacturers, interior designers and furnishing specialists, security firms who can advise on the latest home protection systems, lawn treatment experts and many others.
The event was run for the first time last year and was declared a resounding success by exhibitors, many of whom signed up on the day to attend this Sunday's event and which once again is being sponsored by the Hanley Economic Building Society.
David Lownds, The Hanley's head of operations (senior manager), said: "I'm delighted that The Hanley is partnering The Sentinel in the 2014 Staffordshire Homes Show. We are keen to build on the success of the first show last year which saw more than 30 businesses and 1,200 visitors attend the event.
"The Hanley will be on hand to talk to visitors who are looking to get on the local property ladder and to those people who are looking to remortgage to save money. As a big supporter of the local business community it's really good to be able to support an event that brings together a wide range of local businesses.
"I can say after last year's event it is a great day out for all of the family and it really is a one stop shop event for everything to do with homes and gardens."
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When five of the nation's leading landscape architects gathered before their peers last weekend in Berkeley, the projects they discussed were located in Massachusetts and Minnesota, China and Spain.
But if there was no overt Bay Area hook, no matter: The issues and ambitions on display can be applied to any 21st century metropolitan region like ours, where the most challenging frontiers for growth lie in struggling with issues of growth and change; where the land in question is high-profile and politically charged.
"The art of landscape architecture can mean making our cities into places where everyone has a sense that they belong," said Kathryn Gustafson, whose past work includes a portion of Chicago's Millennium Park. "If you build really beautiful parks, people go to them. They have fun; they use their cars less. That's part of sustainability, too."
The afternoon of presentations was organized by Berkeley's Peter Walker, who was hosting a multiday gathering of executives from America's larger landscape architecture firms. To conclude it with a twist, he arranged for five practitioners to each present a current project that illustrated what they saw as today's design issues.
Gustafson selected the retooling of a rail yard in Valencia, Spain, into a grand crossroads where six neighborhoods will converge, drawn by paths and waterways into a hub with cultural buildings and a high-speed rail station nearby.
The Bay Area connection was indirect but palpable, given the similarity of the site to what San Francisco's Mission Bay once was - a 300-acre rail yard - or the leftover industrial nature of Pier 70 on the central waterfront.
Mission Bay has been criticized for unimaginative design that fits into restrictive planning rules from the early 1990s, while Pier 70's still-evolving design could be scaled back if voters next month approve Proposition B, which locks into place height limits for property owned by the Port of San Francisco.
Those spaces are shaped by politicians and interest groups as much as designers. Architecture and planning can take a backseat to community demands, with developers then whittling back the quality of buildings and parks to ensure a profit.
But the designers on hand Saturday kept returning to another element of city-building, a word rarely heard in today's public forums.
Beauty.
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The yard is blah.
It needs a certain something to give it curb appealand make it more useful and enjoyable.
But dont expect to grab shovels, trees and paving bricks at the local big box, spend a weekend afternoon horsing stuff around and then getting a satisfactory result.
To get a good resultwhether a do it yourself project or letting the landscaping professionals do itit takes a number of steps, but one in particular: Planning.
Dont start landscaping without a plan even if you intend to do the work in stages, HGTV advises in 7 Top Landscaping Donts. Know where your hardscaping (the inanimate features of the yard) needs to go, allow room for access by delivery or work vehicles, and, where theres going to heavy traffic, put plants in last.
Thus, delay the trip to Lowes, the Home Depot or one of the areas several greenhouses before beginning. Remember, people go to school to learn how to landscape properlyand artistically.
Further, landscaping is more than just some trees, shrubs, flowers and a weed-free lawn. As Topeka Landscape notes on its website at topekalandscape.com, the choice of landscaping elements is broad: deciduous trees and shrubs, evergreen trees and shrubs, vines and groundcovers, grasses, perennials, annuals, rock, walls and patios.
Add in further luxury items like fountains, pools, fire pits, kitchens, walkways, fancy planters and gazebos and the complexity of the project compounds.
Though a simple or complicated plan, one local horticulturist and landscaper says having a design focal point is key.
Its a point of interest that youre creating, said Kirk McFadden of Urban Prairie Lawn in Eudora, Kansas. You want something thats a little out of the norm. Thats where your eye will go.
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