| Lake Worth woman claims I-95 construction caused $94000 damage to home
Kathy Hulen, in the dining room of her Lake worth home, has put tape on the ceiling to show where cracks have appeared over two years of vibrations from work on Interstate 95. She claims damage to her home has reached $94,000. By Angel Streeter | South Florida Sun-Sentinel July 26, 2007 .
Find the right fit for windows
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE -- Just as you dress your body to accentuate good points and conceal flaws, you can dress your home's windows to spotlight the good and disguise the less-than-perfect. Are your windows too tall, too narrow, too wide? Are they off-center, in need of some stature? Each of these situations may be remedied with a bit of know-how and ingenuity. The first thing you need to do is identify problem areas. Since there's no Atkins Diet equivalent for too-wide windows, a bit of clever sleight-of-hand needs to be employed. If the room has ample height, mount the window treatment at the ceiling, keeping any side drapery panels thin and tall. Voila, that formerly wide window has a new svelte figure. Where you're dealing with very narrow windows, width can be created by mounting the curtain rod at the top of the window and hanging the drapery panels so they extend onto the walls.
Mobilized soldiers to do security for convoys
The 234th Engineer Company, based in Warrenton, will train for more than two months in Camp Shelby, Miss., before deploying to Balad, Iraq, said Capt. Michael Braibish, an Oregon National Guard spokesman. Once in Iraq, the company will provide security for convoys. "We'll primarily be providing security for the civilian-contractor convoys," said Capt. Jeffrey S. Brown, 234th Company commander. "The key is to keep the vehicles rolling out there." Until 2006, the unit was known as Charlie Company, 1249th Engineers. Its soldiers have performed homeland security missions at Fort Lewis, Wash., and at the Umatilla Chemical Weapons Depot in Umatilla. Some of the unit's soldiers also were deployed to Iraq in February 2003. The 234th Engineer Company includes soldiers from 74 communities across Oregon, as well as nine from Washington and one each from Idaho and Montana.
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