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SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. -- A group of mobile home owners in a park in Volusia County said they are locked in a David vs. Goliath-type battle and they don't expect David to pull this one off. The owner of their mobile home park in South Daytona is selling the property to the city, which wants it for storm water retention. No one argues city flooding is a problem, but senior citizens now are having a problem finding a place to live, WESH 2 News reported. .
Contractor David Vaughn, 53, laughs with Linda Wilkerson, 60, in her Millington home. Vaughn and his Millington-based Vaughn Construction Co. design Easy Living homes and retrofit existing homes to make them handicapped-friendly. Wilkerson's home was a new construction add-on to the back of her niece's house and is filled with features to help her be more self-sufficient. .
Three University of Missouri-Kansas City programs received $1.45 million as part of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation's 2007 Leadership Grants. It's the largest Leadership Grant pledged by the foundation to a single institution. The School of Education received $850,000 from the Helen H. Nelson Trust and the foundation to support its Institute for Urban Education. It also received a $100,000 grant to support the Education Policy Fellowship Program, set up to further the leadership of higher education administrators. The Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration received $500,000 from the Carrie J. Loose Trust and the community foundation for enhancements to the Bloch School's Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
SANTA CLARITA - Three new members have been named to a committee appointed to oversee voter-approved bonds for high school and junior-high construction projects that have overrun projected costs by millions of dollars. The three are Anne Gibson, an elementary school teacher in the Sulphur Springs School District; Joseph Messina, a consultant with The Wildcat Group, Inc.; and Thomas Troesch, a software engineer and consultant. They were selected from a pool of applicants to fill unexpired terms on the 16-member committee created in the William S. Hart Union High School District. The committee - made up of business people, parents and representatives from various community groups - is charged with overseeing the expenditure of funds from a $158 million bond measure passed by Hart district voters in 2001.
SKOKIE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PayNet announces the release of its new Construction Equipment Credit Score, which is the most predictive score PayNet has built yet. It is expected to quickly become the industry standard for financing construction equipment, just as PayNet's Transportation Equipment Credit Score quickly became the standard in that marketplace. Developed jointly by some of the top modeling mathematicians in the world working with experienced construction credit professionals and using the largest data pool of construction equipment loans and leases ever compiled, this new score is not only empirically derived and statistically sound, but also a true credit professional's score, looking at the factors and issues that experienced lenders know drive performance in the real world.
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