| SmithGroup Design of the Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center ...
WASHINGTON, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- SmithGroup, a leading architecture and engineering firm, says the design of the soon-to-open Normandy American Cemetery Visitor Center will express a quiet dignity -- a tribute of respect to the Cemetery. The new, $30 million Visitor Center at the Normandy American Cemetery is nearing completion. It will be dedicated on the 63rd anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 2007, by the American Battle Monuments Commission. The 30,000-square-foot visitor center is situated on a cliff overlooking Omaha Beach in Colleville-sur Mer, France, site of the historic D-Day landings. The Allied forces that stormed the beach, part of the largest amphibious assault ever staged, had a goal to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during World War II.
New Rules on Watering Your Lawn
The dry weather has prompted stricter rules for Georgia residents. The Environmental Protection Division has issued a level two drought response. This further limits what you can do outside your home. Anne Buchanan works in her yard almost every day in Columbus. She didn't know that watering her lawn at midday was not suppose to happen. "We don't watch that much tv and we don't get a paper so," she says. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division has decided that homeowners are now limited to watering their lawns between midnight and 10 am. Odd numbered addresses are suppose to water on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays. Even numbered addresses are limited to Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. But Buchanan says the midnight to 10 am hours are very inconvenient.
Gardening Briefs
More than 450 local and national green businesses and environmentally conscious speakers will gather from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at McCormick Place, Chicago. Cost is $10, $5 for seniors, students and bicycle riders, and free for children. Information: (800) 504-7336. .
Police seek property owners
MONMOUTH - On April 14th and April 16th, Monmouth Police Department patrol officers arrested three subjects in reference to the theft of numerous lawn ornaments that were stolen between April 11th and April 12th.The following subjects were arrested and charged with felony theft and criminal damage to property: Kassie J. Hammitt - age 17, one 16 year-old female juvenile and one 15 year-old female juvenile.Recovered during the investigation were fourteen lawn ornaments with a total value of over $700. All property has been returned to the owners with the exception of two metal posts/flags and a blue/green lawn statue. Anyone with information on who owns the metal posts/flags and the blue/green lawn statue is asked to contact the Monmouth Police Department. .
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