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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Start transforming your home with new products, ideas and trends guaranteed to explode onto the market in the coming year. Oklahoma Citys largest Home & Garden Show will be held at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds January 19-21, 2007. The theme of this years show, Blooming with New Ideas, will provide sensational new concepts and the latest products for the home and garden throughout four buildings at the fairgrounds. With more than 400 local and national exhibitors expected, the show will be Blooming with New Ideas that visitors can utilize in their own homes and gardens. Some of this years features include: The Junk Market Girls Forget trendy, high-priced home decor. This creative duo is getting national attention for their ability to transform flea market finds into original flair for the home.
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Angels come in all forms and, this holiday season, 15 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina have found their angels in Oprah Winfrey and filmmaker Tyler Perry ("Diary of a Mad Black Woman," "Madea's Family Reunion"). Perry, a native of New Orleans, donated $1 million to Oprah's Angel Network, which in turn funded Habitat for Humanity's "Operation Home Delivery" to replace homes lost in the New Orleans flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina. Fifteen families moved into their new, fully-furnished homes in Baton Rouge, just in time for Christmas. For the first time in its U.S. operations, Habitat for Humanity is using modular, or factory-built, homes in order to speed up delivery to displaced families. Not enough volunteers are available for the scope of rebuilding needed in the Gulf Region, and modular homes can be delivered in almost move- in condition, whereas site-built homes require months of labor to complete.
A state emergency management committee says hundreds are still in need seven months after the floods of last mother's day weekend. Some lawmakers are now calling on the state to step in with funding. In the meantime, a fundraiser is set for next week to helps defray estimated needs of about 2 million dollars. New Hampshire Public Radio's Josh Rogers has more. .
EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(CCNMatthews - Nov. 23, 2006) - Winalta Inc. (TSX VENTURE:WTA.A) ("Winalta"), as part of its' expansion strategy to take advantage of increasing demand for industrial and wellsite trailers and camps, announced today the addition of three senior oil patch executives to lead growth in its new oilfield sector.
Winalta had recently announced the acquisition of Jeffman Enterprises Ltd. operating as Sundance Rentals ("Sundance") and these appointments represent a further indication of Winalta's intent to grow the rental, leasing and sale of wellsite trailers and camp units. In doing so Winalta will make full use of its' wholly owned manufacturing facility, Vanguard Inc., located in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. This modern facility, manufactures on 2 lines, has over 40,000 square feet under one roof and enjoys an experienced, skilled and stable work force.
For most families, buying a home is the most expensive purchase they will ever make. Manufactured or modular homes may be their most affordable option.
“Manufactured homes have come a long way from 10-by-50 foot boxes," said Ron Pleus, director of the state's Manufactured Housing and Modular Units program.New ones cost between $25,000 and $100,000 and can include all the amenities typically found in conventional residential housing.Pleus's program is charged with regulating the 172 manufacturers and 279 dealers selling manufactured and modular homes in Missouri.Two basic housing types are regulated: homes built according to national Housing and Urban Development (HUD) standards and homes built to residential standards developed by the state's Public Service Commission (PSC).The first have steel frames and are moveable, even if in sections; the second are attached to permanent foundations.(Mobile homes are not regulated by Pleus's program.)With visits to dealer lots and on-site inspections, Pleus's regulatory staff works to ensure that consumers get a fair deal.“We freely inspect all homes consumers request us to," he said.
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