Archive for December, 2007
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Some of Ray Wilson’s earliest childhood memories of visiting his grandmother are driving past mounds of trash on her land outside the town of Blackfoot.
Trees and ravines along the dirt road made the 1.5-mile stretch an ideal spot for illegal dumping.
Tired of seeing the trash, a team of Blackfeet tribal, county and city workers, along with student volunteers, removed about 200 tons of garbage from the site as part of a renewed effort to clean up and prevent illegal dumpsites on the reservation.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
A Cambridge-based maker of shredding equipment is suing a local competitor started by two former employees and a supplier.
Shred-Tech Corporation has filed suit in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Kitchener seeking monetary damages and injunctions against former employees Peter Viveen and Mike Berry, who have started a competing firm, AXO Shredders Corp., in Kitchener.
The lawsuit also seeks damages and injunctions against George Doerr, owner of George Doerr Body and Trailer, a former supplier to Shred-Tech and now a part owner of AXO Shredders.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
The city of Syracuse is cited by the state labor department in a DPW worker’s death.
In July, Donald Ransom, 51, was killed when a dump truck backed up over him.
According to the state, the city was in violation of three federal safety laws at the time of the accident. The department of labor found that the dump truck did not have a working alarm for when it was in reverse and also didn’t have working reverse lights. They also discovered the city does not have an on-ground observer to help guide trucks when their alarms are not working, which is required by state and federal law.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Friends and employees of Humboldt Auto Transport display some holiday cheer as they shout greetings to the people who lined the streets of Eureka Saturday night for the Truckers Christmas Convoy. Several dozen trucks, flatbeds, big rigs and even one miniature dump truck were emblazoned with thousands of bright festive lights as the drivers honked their horns to the tune of “Jingle Bells.” Hundreds turned out to view the caravan as it headed down Myrtle Avenue to Sixth Street, to H Street, and then up to Harris Street and back to Redwood Acres. Seasonal festivities will continue Sunday with a variety of ensemble and choir groups performing from 12:30-6 p.m. at the Fortuna River Lodge for the Fortuna Christmas Festival. Daniel Solomon/The Eureka Reporter
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Miguel Hidalgo drives trucks to support his family and is “heartbroken” over the incident in which he’s accused of running a red light and then hitting and killing a woman, his attorney said.
Hidalgo, 61, appeared in Orem’s 4th District Court Monday morning with his attorney, James Wright, to enter a not-guilty plea to the class A misdemeanor of negligent homicide stemming from an accident on Sept. 25.
“Obviously we dispute the charge that he was negligent,” Wright said. “He’s heartbroken over this. He’s struggling with the accident and what happened.”
Hidalgo, who is a U.S. citizen, was headed westbound on 800 North at about 9 a.m. He was driving through the intersection but allegedly failed to see the light change.
“What the city is alleging is the … light had been red for several seconds … and he failed to see the color of that light,” said Orem City prosecutor Robert Church. “There were no skid marks prior to impact, and he plowed into the driver’s side of a minivan, (killing) the female driver.”
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
A week after a blazing inferno burned more than 10 acres of an illegal Denver landfill, the fire still smoulders and questions remain about its cause and possible consequences.
The illegal landfill was discovered eight months ago on Lee B. Killian and Earnestine K. Killian’s property after a citizen reported seeing trucks hauling debris off Highway 16 onto the property.
“It was closed within 10 minutes after I was told,” Lee Killian said Monday. “I went down there and put a log across the road. I had no idea I needed it (a permit); I just thought I was stopping erosion.”
When asked about “construction debris,” Killian quickly responded that it was not construction debris. “That’s not legal. . . just brush, limbs, blocks, and concrete…nothing hazardous.”
Thursday afternoon a fire broke out on the property that sent heavy plumes of smoke and the glow of fire across the sky in a widespread area. The fire turned into a media frenzy by nightfall as smoke and the fire glow was detected as far away as 10 miles.
But the fire visible afar was nothing compared to the fires that burned underground on nearly 10 acres of what was called a “stump dump.”
The call came in at about 3 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8, and within minutes, the nearby Denver Fire Department arrived and found several acres on fire with some burning as deep as 60 feet.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Trucks began hauling soil from the 75th Street extension in Willowbrook this week for what village officials consider to be a dirt-cheap price.
Willowbrook officials estimated the cost of moving 17,000 cubic yards of dirt at $614,000, according to village documents. But that was before officials found a developer, Hamilton Partners, who needed dirt for a golf course being built in Westchester.
The developer’s moving contractor, Earth Inc., made Willowbrook a deal too good to refuse, agreeing to remove all the dirt from the extension project for $218,400, or for much less than half of the village’s estimate. The only catch was that it had to start moving dirt this week.
Village Administrator Phil Modaff said Willowbrook’s savings on the project is not simple arithmetic because it involves federal funding for a percentage of the project. But the golf course project still saved Willowbrook a substantial amount of money in the six figures.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
You love your grandson, but he just drove his Bob the Builder dump truck along the side of your car, leaving a path of scratches in the paint. Before you write the little angel out of your will, try the top scratch remover recommended by Consumer Reports magazine.
Researchers at the magazine tested seven do-it-yourself products and found only one lived up to its name of “scratch remover.” All seven tested removed very light scratches and imperfections but only Quixx Scratch Remover did a good job of smoothing out a scratch that’s deep enough to feel with your fingertip - the kind left in the wake of a Bob the Builder dump truck.
But even the best of scratch removers only work if the mark hasn’t gone through the paint’s clear coat layer. Scratches that expose the primer or metal or plastic underneath probably will need to be repainted.
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
These pleated tarps act like a straight tarp, then expand up to 10 ft. along their full length, self-deploying on both sides to easily cover heaped loads.
* Expands to secure load by pulling straps from ground level and securing them to the truck body or trailer
* Built-in tension helps to refold the tarp as it rolls up
* Single-piece construction
* Custom manufactured to meet size needs
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
RESIDENTS complaining of uncollected trash in their backyards shouldn’t be surprised with the poor performance of the Department of Public Works because only four regular truck drivers are currently providing service to Guam’s 19 villages.
DPW had earlier announced that it had only four working garbage haulers. But the Solid Waste Division declared in its latest status report to the federal court that, for the whole month of September, only three drivers worked, with an extra driver, taking paternity leave and one going off-island.
For the month of October, four drivers provided service to residential villages.
The amount of garbage collected from residential areas was dramatically reduced from an average of 22.1 loads per day to 14.9 loads per day when DPW stopped renting private trucks from Lujan Co’s, Angoco Trucking, 4Js and JMC.
The last time that it rented private trucks was on Sept. 10, and this is why complaints from villages of uncollected trash started the last week of September.
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