Cornelia Modular Homes

Windstorm wallops the Island

Thursday's record-breaking windstorm slammed Vashon Island with a vengeance, toppling hundreds of trees that crashed into homes, pulled down miles of power lines and left roads closed, driveways blocked and some people shivering in their homes for days.

By early Friday morning, the entire Island was without power, and trees and branches were strewn everywhere, making the storm, by some measures, the worst since the famous Columbus Day storm in 1962.

One person was injured when a tree crashed onto his modular home on S.W. Cemetery Road and 110th Avenue S.W.; the man, who was not identified, was taken by ambulance to a hospital, according to Mike Kirk, a spokesman for Vashon Island Fire & Rescue.

And a chimney fire broke out in a home on the 9300 block of S.W. Bank Road Saturday night, leaving the owners — newlyweds Mike Stroble and Krystal Willingham-Stroble — dazed and temporarily homeless but grateful to the firefighters.

NEW LOGISTICS PRODUCTS & SERVICES

A welcome diversion: TGW-ERMANCO introduces a new narrow belt sortation system that sorts 150 cartons per minute. The TURBO Sortation System uses WAVE technology and TGW-ERMANCO Commander controls to provide throughput that previously required sliding shoe sorters. The controls and technologies that make up the TURBO System work together to provide optimum performance and value in 100 to 180 carton-perminute sortation.

No more failures to communicate: Demand Management Inc.

GCT Board comtemplating new high school

PARAGOULD-Members of the Greene County Tech School Board and administration held a planning meeting last night to discuss the district's facility needs. The administration discussed a deficiency list given to them by the Arkansas Facilities Department, the condition of the existing buildings, enrollment projections, the high school facility and what the district should do next.Superintendent Sheila Ford said the oldest buildings on campus were constructed between 1944 and 1948, and are fairly inadequate by today's standards and guidelines."This discuss is a result of the Lake View case when Arkansas schools were deemed inadequate. Evaluators were employed and sent to every campus in the state. At the same time, a different group was hired to put together a design manual to tell more specifically what schools should be like," Ford said.The deficiency list give to the school by the facilities department is more than 60-pages, and Ford said they would correct as many deficiencies as the district deems necessary."The junior high building," she said "is one we are concerned about.

Heavy Equipment Operation Program Approved Wellsville Campus

Alfred State College has received approval to offer an associate degree program in heavy equipment operation at the Applied Technology Campus in Wellsville, NY, to begin accepting students in Fall 2006. The two-year program will teach students to operate heavy equipment such as bulldozers, backhoes, wheel loaders, and excavators used in the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, airports, gas and oil pipelines, tunnels, buildings and other structures; in surface mining and quarrying activities; and in material handling work, and will be based upon the modular format that has been successful on the campus for 40 years.

Stressing hands-on education, much of the laboratory work will be based upon the learning-by-doing philosophy which allows students to work on live projects.