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Toronto, Canada (PRWEB) March 12, 2014

Clean-Slate Janitorial Services (http://www.clean-slate.ca), a Greater Toronto Area-based professional cleaning company that specializes in commercial office cleaning, retail maintenance, floor restoration, carpet cleaning, and construction site cleanup, is pleased to announce it has added the NaceCare TTQ3035 floor scrubber to its list of advanced janitorial products to better serve its clients in the GTA.

Because businesses use different types of carpet, flooring, and tiles, its important to be as up-to-date as possible with the most advanced cleaning products and techniques, says Sam Panousis, owner and operator of Clean-Slate Janitorial Services. When it comes to having office floors cleaned, regardless of their size, nothing is as quick and efficient as the NaceCare TTQ3035 scrubber.

With spring just around the corner, Panousis notes that many businesses in the GTA will be looking for convenient, affordable ways to get their offices professionally cleaned. Thats why Clean-Slate has incorporated the NaceCare TTQ3035 scrubber, which is designed to be compact, easy to operate, and exceptionally manoeuvrable. Its deep scrubbing action ensures optimal deep cleaning performance and is ideal for all types of floors, including grouted tile, which is often found on office floors and walkways in stores, shops, and restaurants.

Panousis explains that advanced industrial, commercial, and retail floor cleaning equipment such as the NaceCare TTQ3035 is designed to maximize productivity and minimize total operating costs.

At Clean-Slate Janitorial Services, we know the importance of maintaining a clean office or retail space; its the first thing a customer sees when they enter a place of business, Panousis concludes. Our addition of the NaceCare TTQ3035 was done to better serve the needs of our clients, something weve been doing successfully in Vaughan, the GTA, and the surrounding areas for almost 10 years.

Clean-Slate Janitorial Services has been serving commercial customers in the Greater Toronto Area, including downtown Toronto, Vaughan, Mississauga, Brampton, and Markham, for eight years. Services provided by Clean-Slate Janitorial Services include commercial office cleaning, retail management and janitorial services, floor restoration and buffing, carpet cleaning, window and blind cleaning, and construction site cleanup. To learn more about Clean-Slate Janitorial Services and to get a free quote, visit the companys web site at http://www.clean-slate.ca or call 416-509-7454.

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HOA Management (.com) is proud to announce a new advertising partnership with The Falcon Group. The Falcon Group has a team of highly-skilled professionals, offers comprehensive civil, structural & MEP engineering as well as architectural and energy consulting services to multi-family residential, commercial and educational facilities.

The Falcon Group has partnered with HOA Management (.com) to advertise their services to community associations and property management companies regionally that are actively searching for architectural services. As a result of the new partnership, The Falcon Group will appear on the HOA Management (.com) vendor directory. To learn more about The Falcon Group, visitors to the directory can view their profile page on HOA Management (.com). This page allows users to contact The Falcon Group in a number of ways. These include a direct hyperlink to their website, a current phone number, and an email contact form.

The Falcon Groups depth of capability with existing multi-family and single-family developments provides them with a wealth of insight, and foresight, regarding potential construction problems and deficiencies. The Falcon Group is well equipped to support Community Associations at every phase of the transition. They evaluate virtually every facet of this crucial process, including building plan review and analysis, resident surveys, detailed interior and exterior inspections, and more. Each Reserve Funding Analysis The Falcon group performs is a customized study, prepared in coordination with their Reserve Specialist and client.They have many licensed Reserve Specialists on staff through CAI. The CAI's Reserve Specialist designation is awarded to experienced, qualified professionals who help condominium, cooperative and homeowner associations plan for the long-term repair and replacement of major components.

HOA Management (.com) is a leading HOA property management directory that uses targeted marketing strategies to reach out to community associations and offer them free access to its online directory. Association residents and board members are able to connect with professional management companies and service providers in their local area by searching on the HOA Management (.com) directory. To learn more about HOA Management (.com), visit http://www.hoamanagement.com or email sales(at)hoamanagement(dot)com.

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In the 100-plus years since founder Daniel W. Mead started the business, Mead & Hunt has grown substantially, even helping uild the Hoover Dam in 1928. Its now ranked as the largest Wisconsin-based engineering and architectural professional services firm in Wisconsin.

Mead was an internationally recognized hydrology and hydraulic engineering expert when he established his Chicago-based consulting firm in 1900. He moved to Madison in 1904 to an office on State Street. Henry Hunt, an electrical and civil engineer, became a partner in the firm in the early 1930s. Growth through this partnership allowed Mead & Hunt to diversify into other engineering and architecture areas.

The firms services expanded to meet the countrys changing social needs. Civil and highway engineering were added as interstate highway networks were created. Airport planning and design supported the military during the 1940s. After World War II, the firms services grew to include architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering when new housing, commercial and industrial buildings were needed.

Mead & Hunt provides professional services in planning, design, engineering and architecture serving nationwide markets that include aviation, dams and hydropower, energy, food, industrial, military, municipal infrastructure, mines and bridges. The company also provides historic preservation services. The business is employee-owned, with about one-third of employees owning company stock.

Their clients include governments at all levels local, state and federal entities that include military, airports, highways and bridge authorities, power companies, irrigation districts, utilities and mines, food processors and others.

Rajan Sheth, 64, current CEO and chairman of the board, joined Mead & Hunt in 1977 as a structural engineer. Originally from India, Sheth came to Madison in 1970 to attend graduate school at UW-Madison. He was named CEO and chairman of the board in 1994. Under his leadership, Mead & Hunt has grown to more than 30 offices nationwide and from 100 to 500 employees. Last year, Mead & Hunt earned more than $80 million in revenue.

Next time you fly out of Dane County Regional Airport, you may wonder who designed most of the taxiways, runways and the terminal building. It was Mead & Hunt, explained Sheth.

Mead & Hunt also was the lead firm designing the reservoir after the dam collapsed on Lake Delton and flooding washed out the highway near the lake in June 2008.

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SWEET HOME Speaking in Chinuk wawa, the native language of the Grand Ronde tribe, Michael Karnosh said Monday afternoon that his heart was very happy to be standing here today.

Karnosh was one of several dozen stakeholders who formalized their commitment to the South Santiam Community Forest Corridor concept by signing a declaration of cooperation at the Jim Riggs Community Center.

The Grand Ronde, Siletz and Warm Springs tribes have all participated in and support the process.

Other participants have included representatives of state and federal agencies, universities, the city of Sweet Home and private landowners, who have spent the last two years developing a long-term vision for the corridor of mixed ownership lands between Sweet Home and Cascadia.

Thomas Maness, dean of the Oregon State University school of forestry emceed the event and was a co-convener along with Cynthia Solie of the project supported by Gov. Kitzhabers Oregon Solutions program.

This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people, Maness said. Im proud to be a part of it.

Maness said he sees three keys to success: effective leadership; courage to push forward; and persistence to overcome inevitable resistance from others.

The working group developed 12 key goals.

Those goals include:

Increasing the physical connection between Sweet Home and the Willamette National Forest via the South Santiam corridor.

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David Cameron is said to be considering making the job of immigration minister a Cabinet-level position and handing it to current party chairman Grant Shapps.

A senior Conservative Party source told The Huffington Post UK that the move could be made at the next reshuffle, expected at the end of May in the wake of the European parliamentary elections.

The change would allow Downing Street to stress the importance the prime minister places on addressing voters' concerns about immigration.

At present the job of immigration minister sits in the Home Office below home secretary Theresa May and is held by James Brokenshire.

The move would also permit Cameron to appoint a new chairman ahead of the 2015 general election and draw a line under what is likely to be a damaging third place finish for the party behind Labour and Ukip in the European elections.

The appointment could be seen as a demotion for Shapps, who was only made party chairman in September 2012 when he replaced Baroness Warsi.

Since then there have been some grumblings about his performance. The Conservatives slipped to third place behind Ukip in the Eastleigh, South Shields and Wythenshawe and Sale East by-elections. One Tory MP told the Daily Mirror in December that Shapps was a "dead man walking" as Cameron's election strategist Lynton Crosby wanted to ditch him.

Some conservative commentators have also been agitating for a new Tory chairman. The Daily Telegraph's Iain Martin recently said that while Shapps was "enthusiastic", the job should be given to education secretary Michael Gove.

The senior Tory source told HuffPost UK that Conservative business minister and former deputy party chairman Michael Fallon is being lined up for Shapps' job at CCHQ.

It was suggested that the new immigration job would not be a full cabinet minister post but it would allow the holder to attend cabinet meetings - as Baroness Warsi, Ken Clarke and Dominic Grieve do at present.

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A woman was inside her home with her nine-month-old baby, when suddenly she hears drilling at the doors.

A woman was inside her home with her nine-month-old baby, when suddenly she hears drilling at the doors.

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It's no secret Americans love meat.

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Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that hit a gas line in Pulaski County late Tuesday night.

Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that hit a gas line in Pulaski County late Tuesday night.

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ELLWOOD CITY Placement of the truck detour for a bridge replacement project to begin this spring has threatened the Soap Box Derby-style tournament planned for later this year.

Earla Marshall of the Kitchen Cabinet, which is organizing the racing event, told the borough council on Monday that the inaugural 2014 tournament will have to be canceled if a venue is not determined and approved by council at next Mondays monthly meeting.

But borough council members said after Mondays council committee meeting that a site will be approved in time for plans to still go off.

Marshall said the delay in determining a location for the tournament has already deprived Kitchen Cabinet members of the opportunity of holding assemblies in Ellwood City Area schools to promote the event. With the PSSA tests coming up next month, district officials will not permit the organizers to hold an assembly.

We cannot formally put out information on the derby until a location is determined, Marshall told council Monday.

The Kitchen Cabinet is calling the event, scheduled for Sept. 27, the Main Drag Derby because it is not an official Soap Box Derby tournament. But Kitchen Cabinet members are consulting with organizers of the regional Soap Box Derby qualifier in Ambridge, Marshall said.

Ellwood City had played host to an official Soap Box Derby qualifier for nearly 40 years until the late 1960s, when the race was discontinued.

In January, Kitchen Cabinet members had proposed two locations along Line Avenue in the boroughs North Side, and Fourth Street near the Lawrence Avenue business district. But its possible that neither site will be acceptable.

Because of the ramps and grandstands necessary to hold the derby, any street used in the tournament would have to be closed for nearly 24 hours, until about 4 p.m. on race day.

That would preclude using the Fourth Street location for a derby this year, with replacement of the Second Street Bridge scheduled to begin this spring. A portion of Fourth Street including the area earmarked for the derby has been designated to serve as truck detour for the Second Street Bridge project, said council President Brad Ovial.

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The Mountrail County Health Center in Stanley will soon have a new emergency room.

The building's expansion and renovation will be a three phase project aimed at handling the town's recent population surge.

Bonnie Campo has more.

Just like other expanding hospitals in the state-- the Stanley health center has seen a dramatic increase in the number of patients in its waiting room, and phase one is almost complete.

(Sue Weston, Hospital Financial Officer) "The first phase has to do with remodeling the emergency room. Our service to the emergency room population has probably grown by fifty to sixty percent, and with that need comes the dramatic need for space. We have enclosed the ambulance bay for the convenience of the patients in the Fall weather conditions. We are adding a C-T scanner currently on site to help diagnose patients."

To help reach those goals--American Bank Center will donate $25-thousand each year over the next decade-- until their total dollar amount reaches of $250-thousand.

(Heath Hetzel, American Bank Center) "You know the hospital has really expanded with the population and the growth in western North Dakota. The things that are going on in the area with the medical needs. With the donation of the $250-thousand dollars we're very excited to partner with the hospital, and I think it's a very worthwhile cause, and look forward to seeing the expansion complete."

The banks donation will go towards the hospitals end goal of $6.25 million. Which will fund the next steps in the project.

(Sue Weston, Hospital Financial Officer) "The phase two expansion if for the clinic. It's to add exam rooms for the physicians, and the final phase has to do with their nursing home portion of the facility, and that last phase we have been waiting on for a number of years and that is just as important as the first two."

The completion of the project has yet to be confirmed until phase two is finished. In Stanley, Bonnie Campo, KX News.

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Remodeling trends come and go, which is a good thing if you're talking about shag carpet or avocado-colored Formica. But some trends have both staying power and universal appeal, such as the strengthening movement toward homes that are more energy efficient and eco-friendly.

"Demand is high for homes that are not only attractive and comfortable, but also that perform well," says Patrick L. O'Toole, editorial director and publisher of Professional Rebuilder magazine. "Today's homeowners are looking for remodeling options that make their homes more energy-efficient. Cost-savings over the long-term and minimizing a home's environmental footprint make energy- efficient remodeling very appealing to homeowners. At the same time, they're not willing to sacrifice quality design and beauty."

Upgrading a few key systems can help homeowners involved in remodeling projects improve their homes' energy efficiency and operate their households in a more environmentally conscious way. If you're planning some remodeling in the coming year, O'Toole suggests keeping these "green" points in mind:

Energy-efficient appliances

Household appliances account for nearly 35 percent of a home's energy consumption, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration'sResidential Energy Consumption Survey. Reducing the amount of energy appliances consume can help homeowners lower utility bills and save hundreds of dollars over the lifetime of an appliance. The federal ENERGY STAR program provides consumers with a valuable reference when shopping for energy efficient appliances. A newer designation called "ENERGY STAR Most Efficient" recognizes the top products in their category for efficiency, across categories like appliances, TVs and electronics from leading brands like LG. This new classification can be especially helpful to environmentally- conscious consumers when they're renovating, according to O'Toole.

"Increased awareness of the value of energy efficiency has made an ENERGY STAR rating a 'must' for many homeowners when they're shopping for new appliances," he says. "Replacing older, less efficient appliances with newer, ENERGY STAR-rated ones can both transform the look of a kitchen and ensure long-term cost savings while addressing climate change."

Many remodelers today are seeking premium built-in design and innovative technology along with enhanced efficiency, all of which can be found in LG Studio appliances. This high-end suite of appliances, from refrigerators to cooktops, and wall ovens to dishwashers emphasizes savvy, state-of-the art design that is as user-friendly as they are efficient. For example, the 42-inch side- by-side refrigerator/freezer is ENERGY STAR-qualified and offers 26.5 cubic feet of capacity, and the SpacePlus Ice System that frees up valuable top-shelf space by moving the icemaker into the refrigerator door. Also, the counter-depth Door-in-Door Refrigerator provides a built-in and seamless look while the unique, Door-in- Door feature offers convenience and easy organization as well as keeping the cool air from escaping the refrigerator by not opening the main door.

Solar options

Solar energy is becoming increasingly practical and affordable for residential use. Currently, the most common uses for solar power in homes are in heating water and generating electricity.

Water heating accounts for nearly 18 percent of a home's energy consumption, according to the Energy Information Administration survey. Replacing an older, less efficient electric water heater with an ENERGY STAR-qualified solar water heating system can reduce hot water costs by 50 percent, EnergyStar.gov says. These heaters also reduce a home's carbon dioxide emissions by half and can last as long as 20 years.

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WILLMAR - TPI Hospitality, owner of the Holiday Inn Hotel and Conference Center in New Ulm, is announcing the start of a multi-million dollar major reconstruction project of the facility.

In addition to an extensive renovation of the hotel guest rooms, a reconfiguration and remodel of the hotel public spaces will include the addition of two elevators to allow guests easy access to all hotel facilities, a new larger fitness room, and expanded lobby area offering a full hot complimentary breakfast to guests daily.

Exterior upgrades to the parking lot and landscaping, an expansion and remodeling of the New Ulm Conference Center. The current restaurant will be expanded to include an extensive outdoor patio and fireplace.

Staff photo by Steve Muscatello The Holiday Inn in New Ulm will undergo a multi-million dollar reconstruction project, according to owner TPI Hospitality. When completed the hotel will become a Best Western Plus.

The project will be completed in five phases.

"We take great pride in the fact that we have been a member of this community for 35 years," said Mitch Peterson, President of TPI Hospitality.

When the project is completed, the newly renovated hotel will become a Best Western Plus facility.

Preliminary work on the first phase of construction began this week. The renovation of the hotel's public areas is expected to be completed by late spring, followed by the exterior upgrades in June and the hotel room renovation in late summer.

The final stages of the project will include the restaurant and conference center, both of which are expected to be completed in late summer or early fall, in time for Oktoberfest.

Company spokesperson Dee Anne Osborne said the hotel would continue to operate throughout the construction phase. The restaurant renovations will require that it be shut down sometime in the summer for about a week, but not until the lobby has been completed and is serving breakfasts.

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