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DEBARY -- - Residents at the Meadowlea-on-the-River mobile-home park have been advised to boil their tap water for three weeks after a well collapsed and sand got into a storage tank, officials announced Monday.
Officials urged residents to use water very sparingly. One resident said the water was brown.
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Vice President Noli de Castro has announced that low-cost housing technologies accredited by the government will be showcased in a Housing Fair to be held on Oct. 28 to 29 at the Glorietta in Makati City. De Castro, chairman of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, said the Accreditation of Indigenous Technologies for Housing, an inter-agency committee headed by HUDCC, evaluates and accredits innovative technologies and systems for housing. The National Housing Authority under general manager Federico Laxa serves as the Aitech secretariat. Aitech accredits local and international technologies that use non-traditional or alternative materials that can significantly reduce construction costs. Aitech also places emphasis on the technologiesÂ’ environmental considerations.
CARLISLE, Pa. A Pennsylvania fugitive accused in his home state of trading money, liquor and drugs for sex with teenage boys has been arrested in eastern Arizona. Authorities say 56-year-old Clair Smith of Miller Township, Pennsylvania, had been told on October 15th that he would be charged the next day with more than 260 counts. Smith vanished, but was captured Saturday after police in Holbrook spotted his black S-U-V. Perry County's district attorney declines to say why police suspected Smith would be in Arizona. Pennsylvania state police say tour boys, ages 14 and 15, have said Smith repeatedly lured them to his mobile home with offers of money, cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana and then had sex with them. ___ Information from: The Sentinel, http://www.cumberlink.com Copyright 2006 Associated Press.
In just over two weeks, voters in the city of Lafayette, unincorporated parts of Lafayette Parish and Carencro and Duson will decide whether to collect in their respective areas a new 1-cent sales tax. Sixty-two road and drainage projects are listed in an August feasibility report as projects that may be built if the 1-cent tax is approved in the city of Lafayette. Fourteen projects in unincorporated Lafayette Parish may be built with a one-cent parish tax. Worst-case scenario If the tax is rejected, Lafayette Consolidated Government will have only $8.2 million for road construction in 2007, East Pont des Mouton Road, said Pat Logan, associate public works director. "That's it for 2007," Logan said. If the tax is approved Nov. 7, one of the first projects ready for construction is Louisiana Avenue from Maryview Farm Road to Gloria Switch Road, a $12 million project, he said.
BLACKSBURG, Va. The contractor that oversaw the expansion of Lane Stadium has sued Virginia Tech, blaming the school and architects for delays that have plagued the project, which is still incomplete. Turner Construction Company is suing Virginia Tech for over 30 (m) million dollars in Montgomery County Circuit Court, seeking additional money the company claims it is owed. Tech spokesman Larry Hincker says Tech has paid Turner all but two-point-six (m) million dollars it owes for the expansion. In its lawsuit, Turner claims it had "massive" additional costs because of "massive design problems" it blames on Tech and Moseley Architects of Richmond. Tech has filed a counterclaim in which it seeks to have the lawsuit dismissed. Tech also wants more than three (m) million dollars in damages from Turner related to the delays, and asked that Moseley be named as a third-party defendant in Turner's suit.
MOSCOW, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - The formation of the United Aircraft Building Corporation (UABC) will be completed by April 2007, Russia's industry and energy minister said Friday. In a move to streamline the aviation industry, President Putin signed a resolution February 21 on forming the UABC, which will be a majority state-owned corporation consolidating aircraft construction companies and state assets engaged in the manufacture, design and sale of military, non-military, transport and unmanned aircraft. Viktor Khristenko said in parliament the main elements of the new company have already been coordinated with all concerned departments. The corporation, which will be governed by a collegial body, will consolidate its assets in the first quarter of 2007, and will place shares between 2007 and 2008.
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