| Woman's prayer for heat answered | | Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:01:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | EAST MOLINE, Illinois -- Just one day after seeing the story of 65-year-old Judy Cullett, workers at Family Heating and Cooling in Davenport knew they had to help. "I thought, 'We'd better get [there] soon and rip [the old furnace] out as soon as we can,'" said Todd Ruckoldt of Family Heating. Wednesday night, Newschannel 8 aired the story about how Cullett's furnace would no longer work, and the senior citizen's fixed-budget wouldn't allow her to purchase a new one. Local charities were unable to foot the bill, as well, leaving Cullett with no place to turn. Cullett had only a space-heater and a stove as sources of heat. To try to stay warm, she would force herself to fall asleep in a chair nearby. Her granddaughter, Francheska Clover, then contacted Newschannel 8's Call for Action volunteers, asking if they had any contacts.... | |
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| | | State division $100,000 over on overtime budget | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 2:59:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | DES MOINES, Iowa State workers who are responsible for maintaining the heating, cooling and electrical systems at the Capitol complex were paid about 100-thousand-dollars more in overtime than was allotted in their department's overtime budget. That's according to a copyright story in The Des Moines Register. The Register also reports that at least one of the state workers nearly doubled his salary with overtime pay. Bob Straker, a district vice president with Iowa's chapter of AFSCME, was paid approximately 95-thousand-dollars during the 2006 budget year, according to state payroll records. About 40 percent of that came from overtime pay. His base pay was about 48-thousand-dollars. Division-wide, state payroll records show that the operations division, which Straker worked in, exceeded its 70-thousand-dollar budget for overtime last year by nearly 100-thousand-dollars.... | |
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| | | Heating bills can be lower in warmer winter | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:01:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | The National Weather Service is predicting temperatures slightly above normal in the coming three months. That is cold comfort, however, considering the average temperature during December, January and February is 30.2 degrees. There is a weak El Nino effect, or warming, in the Pacific Ocean, which will raise the temperature about 1 degree during those months, National Weather Service meteorologist Rodney Smith said. The service is forecasting a total snowfall of 27.7 inches during the quarter. Not to worry. There are things home-owners can do to keep their houses warm and energy efficient and save on utility bills. Topping the list is getting the furnace serviced. Also important: seal cracks around doors and windows and get used to a lower setting of the thermostat. Those suggestions and others come from Action Housing Inc., which runs a weatherization program.... | |
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| | | Bryant Heating & Cooling Systems Announces 2007 Indy Racing League ... | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 1:17:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The longest non-automotive sponsor of the Indianapolis 500, Bryant Heating & Cooling Systems, is proud to announce its 2007 Indy Racing League (IRL) IndyCar Series sponsorship of Andretti Green Racing and driver, Tony Kanaan. Kanaan, whose love of racing began to flourish after watching his first go kart race as a child in Brazil, is entering his fifth year of involvement with Andretti Green Racing (AGR) in the 2007 season. It is no wonder that AGR, the winningest team in the Indy Racing League, includes Kanaan, a focused and successful driver. Throughout his career, he has earned six victories, six pole positions, including the 89th running of the Indianapolis 500, and scored 43 top-10 finishes. In 2004, he won the IndyCar Series championship and was runner-up in 2005.... | |
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| | | Oil jumps on energy report | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:16:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oil prices jumped Wednesday after a report showed supplies of distillates, used to make heating oil and closely watched ahead of winter, showed a surprise decline. Light, sweet crude oil rose 83 cents to $59.76 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil jumped up 62 cents immediately after the report's release. .... | |
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| | | Movers in the Tier | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:09:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | * Chris Platner of Windsor received a first place national award as part of an apprentice competition at the National Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Contractors convention held in Chicago. The award included a $1,000 cash prize. As a competition participant, Platner was required to construct plumbing fixtures. He is a member of the Local 112 of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union and is employed by Louis N. Picciano & Sons in Vestal. * Rogers Service Group announced the awarding of Employee of the Month for September to Shanon Lum. Lum has been with Rogers just over one year and works in the record storage center and is cross-trained in several aspects of the department. Is your business making news? Send your news and high-resolution color photos to gspohr@ pressconnects.com, or mail them to Press & Sun-Bulletin, c/o Movers in the Tier, P.O.... | |
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| | | Suped-Up Pasta Cooking And Pouch Cooling Line At 21st Century Foods Helps Make Fresh, Ready-To-Eat Entres A Big Hit | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:22:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | 21st Century Foods of San Antonio, Texas, a manufacturer of fresh, fully-cooked and ready-to-eat entrees for retail and institutional markets, is one food processor that is in a whirlwind of production activity. The company, which started operation in 2004 with a patented process for re-constituting and re-texturing de-boned chicken meat, and gross product shipped for that first year approximating .75 million pounds, is now providing its entrees to such mega-retailers as Albertsons and Target, with a projected 7.0 million pounds of product to be shipped in 2006. Not bad a start for a company that is new to the fresh-food, ready-to-eat entre market. But, how does this start-up manage to maintain such a rigorous production output with a fresh product line-up? One crucial factor is the completely state-of-the-art cooking and cooling processes that they are using, and particularly their pouch cooling set-up, all of which was designed and built by food processing equipment developer, Lyco Manufacturing.... | |
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| | | Paulsen is new Polar Gas tech | | Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:03:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Polar Gas Company announces they have added a full-time certified service technician position to be held by Dustin Paulsen of Poplar. Paulsen is the fifth technician added to the company that specializes in heating/cooling installation and repair. Paulsen comes to the company from the former First Propane Company, which was recently sold. It is great to have this opportunity and to service the community, (in) which I was raised, Paulsen commented. This move makes great sense for Polar Gas, says General Manager Jane Kriskovich. It just proves once again that our company is on track to offer the best customer service possible in the area, in addition (to) helping us keep up with our ever-growing demand for services and product. Paulsen will be responsible for installations and repairs in the areas from Ashland to Duluth, all of the South Shore and south to Drummond through Minong.... | |
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| | | Caldwell Depot ceremony today | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 11:04:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | Crews have been at work since the summer, painting the exterior of the building and re-mortaring and cleaning the outside bricks. Interior restoration on the building includes new heating and cooling, wall repair, new lighting, renovated bathrooms, new floors and windows."The depot, it looks just awesome," Caldwell Deputy City Clerk Debbie Geyer said. "It's going to be good weather, and that's the best part." The Train Depot will eventually have a permanent model train display different from the display at the opening. The opening will also have information booths for the Canyon County Historical Society and Friends of the Caldwell Depot.The Train Depot and Plaza are part of the overall effort to bring more business, visitors and residents to downtown. The plan includes uncovering and restoring a five-block stretch of Indian Creek.Caldwell Train Depot 100-Year Celebration, Ribbon-Cutting CeremonyWhen: 2-5 p.m.... | |
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| | | Springer Carrier Centralizes Back-Office Operations in Brazil, Meets SOX Compliance Requirements With Help From IBM | | Posted Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:01:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | Springer Carrier, a leader in air conditioning, heating and cooling equipment for commercial, residential and transportation applications, today announced it has reduced the number of duplicate IT systems by 40 percent and the number of suppliers by 50 percent, as a result of a major process improvement project with IBM Global Business Services (NYSE:IBM - News). "The first financial closing was very good; it took only 16 hours to close all cost processing and accounting reporting -- more time was available to spend on analyses," said Orlando Jr., Project Manager, Springer Carrier. "It was the fastest SAP project ever deployed in Carrier, plus during the project there was no disruption to key company processes such as selling, planning, producing, billing and delivering products to customers." Completed in 13 months with an estimated investment of US$3 million, the project resulted in an additional benefit for the company.... | |
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