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ASHLAND -- Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center Superintendent Mike McDaniel said the school is "truly into something that is really, really big" with a new bioscience program that will start in the 2007-08 school year. McDaniel outlined the program for the board at its meeting Thursday. He said the scope of the program will prepare students for jobs in the areas of bioresearch, biomedicine and bio-agriculture, which include a growing list of at least 18 career activities. Possible career paths for bioscience students include geneticist, biologist, molecular chemist, research technician, health and safety specialist, biotech lab technician and product development engineer. Calling the program "tech prep on steroids," McDaniel said first year students will be involved with a tech prep type curriculum with core coursework and practical experience that will include work at Samaritan Regional Health Systems, WIL Research or Ashland University.
Valena Henry, 77, arrived Wednesday to a sight she swears she foresaw even before Katrina flattened her Pass Christian home. "I had a vision I was going to get a new home and I got it," Henry said. "It ain't brick, but I got a new home." She returned to her Grayson Street neighborhood where everybody knows her as grandma. "Now if grandma tells you something, do like grandma tells you to do," Henry warned. "Because grandma will whip you." And this grandma says prayer, patience, and the good works of others have made her return possible. "I'm so thankful for the people who just reached out and helped me." Those people are led by the non-profit Enterprise Corporation of the Delta, a regional organization that provides funds for community development to the most needy.
CONCORD, N.H. A New Hampshire group organized to help people flooded out of their homes in May is asking for volunteers and donations to help 200 families repair or replace their homes. Daniel Steinbach -- who chairs the fund-raising effort -- says 25 of the families still are not back in their homes seven months after the disaster. The New Hampshire Statewide Disaster Recovery Steering Committee is holding a fund-raiser next Thursday in Concord to raise money. Steinbach says they need money to buy materials as well as volunteers to do the repairs. He says the families have exhausted their own resources. Deb Gaudette of Goffstown said she had enough insurance to pay for a new foundation but no money to put a modular home onto it. She said her mother loaned her the money for a downpayment but she doesn't have enough to pay the balance and get the modular home moved onto the foundation.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2006 -- Fred Zinn, Executive Vice President and CFO of Drew Industries Incorporated , will present to investors and analysts at the Lambert-Edwards SMID-West Stock Conference at 1:45 p.m. ET (12:45 p.m. CT) on December 5 at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. A live webcast of the presentation will be available to investors, analysts and media at http://www.lambert-edwards.com/smid . An archive of the webcast will be available for 30 days. SMID-West 2006 is an invitation-only event to introduce Midwest-based buyside and sellside analysts to the management teams of top-performing small and mid-cap (SMID) companies. Lambert, Edwards & Associates, Inc., in partnership with NASDAQ, BetterInvesting.org, PR Newswire and Roadcast(TM), will host SMID-West 2006.
BATON ROUGE, La. U-S Senator Mary Landrieu has another fight on her hands. Today, she says the state learned it will get 75 (m) million dollars in new federal money to pay for modular quick-assemble homes, known as "Katrina cottages," to replace the cramped FEMA trailers where many residents have lived since Hurricane Katrina. But that's far less than Louisiana sought, and state officials said they're disappointed that Louisiana will get less than one-fifth of the 400 (m) million dollar pool available for the pilot program funded through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Mississippi, meanwhile, is expected to receive more than 280 (m) million dollars. The divvying up of alternative housing money restarted complaints that Mississippi has been treated better than Louisiana in the allocation of federal hurricane recovery cash.
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