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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.
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. The TURBO System features a WAVE Aligner that positions cartons for two-way diverting while maintaining gaps and rates. The TURBO Induction manages gaps rapidly with each belt powered individually, while the Commander controls operate the TURBO System with efficiency and precision. (TGW-ERMANCO Inc., (231) 798-4547, www.tgw-ermanco.com) No more failures to communicate: Demand Management Inc.
Megan Derr and her husband, Michael Derr, had been on a discouraging, year-long house hunt before they found someone who could help them. The Derrs, 21 and 19, respectively, have two small children. Their combined income is between $23,000 and $24,000 a year. Like most people in the coastal Carolinas whose annual wages are in that range, the best they could envision was rent-subsidized housing. But with the help of a federal home-ownership program and a willing builder, the Derrs now find themselves living a dream. They should be in their new house by next summer. "We thought we'd never get a break," Megan Derr said. Home ownership in Brunswick, Horry and Georgetown counties is an elusive goal for most people whose income is less than $40,000 a year.
KENNEBUNKPORT -- Just up the road from Goose Rocks' oft-photographed Clock Farm, developer Tim Harrington is pushing forward with his proposal to put 26 prefabricated homes in a new subdivision dubbed "Cottages at Fishing Pole Lane." On Wednesday, Nov. 15 the Kennebunkport Planning Board held a public hearing to gather input on the project. After much discussion, the board decided to hold the hearing open and take another hour's worth of input at their Wednesday, Dec. 6 meeting. While a group of abutters opposed to the project have hired Kennebunk attorney Alan Shepard to represent them, Planning Board Chairman Mike Weston says the public hearing was civil and productive. Some key questions looming over the project do appear to be resolved: according to Port Town Counsel, the cottage project does meet the town's definition of a Mobile Home Park--and in order to meet this, Harrington and his Atlantic Holdings, LLC must hold the land in unified ownership and "lease" the cottages to eventual "owners." The designation of "Mobile Home Park" will allow Harrington--who is perhaps best known locally for "The Cottages at Cabot Cove" project on South Maine Street--to place the cottages on a much smaller lot than normally allowable.
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