| Case Design Joins in Support of Hands on DC Event
BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Case Design/Remodeling, Inc. will join leading area businesses in support of the 2007 Hands on DC Work-a-thon, Saturday, April 28, 2007, at 9:00 a.m. This year's work-a-thon will feature hundreds of volunteers from around the region making improvements at more than thirty public schools across the city. Case will provide manpower from four of its DC-metro area offices and make improvements such as painting, landscaping and carpentry at the Payne Elementary School in Southeast, DC. Case President Mark G. Richardson, CR, stated that sponsorship of Hands on DC is a great fit with his company's Case Cares Initiative. "This type of event gives us a unique opportunity to invest in our city and the future of our children," says Richardson. "Our staff also gets the satisfaction of contributing to an outstanding cause and seeing the worthwhile results of community spirit and camaraderie." In 2006, Case adopted Payne Elementary as part of its Case Cares Initiative, which identifies and acts upon community initiatives by providing resources, volunteering staff time and donating money to community service organizations in the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area.
Fair Lawn honors officer, mentor, hero
Fair Lawn police on Tuesday marked the four-year anniversary of the death of Mary Ann Collura, the first borough police officer killed in the line of duty. A few dozen police officers, friends and family members gathered around a bronze sculpture of Collura in front of Borough Hall for a brief ceremony and a moment of silence for the fallen officer. .
Painter took nature's scenic route and returned to his Jersey roots
Before he became an international art icon who changed the American cultural landscape by painting its natural landscape, Asher B. Durand was a boy who explored nature in the fields and woods around his family farm on Orange Mountain, in a place called Jefferson Village, now known as Maplewood. He loved the place so much, he came back to live out his years, and built an estate-size home on the exact site he was born, and died there in 1886 at age 90. This was after a life as a world-renowned engraver and painter, a stanchion of the New York artistic and intellectual community and the acknowledged leading figure in the first uniquely American art movement. So while Asher B. Durand was a New Yorker by reputation, he was a Jerseyan, beginning to end.
Recycle your mower: Help clear Denver's air
Older, gas-powered lawn equipment can be real polluters, spewing emissions which contribute to the formation ground-level ozone and cause or worsen a variety of health problems. The Regional Air Quality Council is helping residents make sure their lawn equipment is as green as their lawns.
By visiting www.OzoneAware.org and visiting the Mow Down Pollution Virtual Event section, residents can receive big discounts and rebates on earth-friendly lawn equipment, learn how to recycle their old equipment and view an online buyer's guide to earth-friendly lawn equipment.
The Regional Air Quality Council (RAQC), StEPP Foundation, Neuton Power Equipment, Clean Air Lawn Care, Green Culture and EnviroGard are teaming up to provide rebates to Front Range residents who exchange old lawn equipment.
When residents purchase any of the already-discounted, earth-friendly equipment through the site, they can simply send a copy of the receipt to the RAQC and receive up to a $50 rebate.
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