The News Review:
- Prayers to mark operations of new PET plant
- Vine that ate the South is creeping northward
- Delphos taps into new water system
Prayers to mark operations of new PET plant
Columbia Daily Tribune – Oct 13, 2007
tomorrowWhere: PET plant 1908 Heriford RoadThe occasion is a milestone. The Personal Energy Transportation Project recently moved its assembly plant 100 yards up the street from a smaller shop at 1914 Heriford where it had assembled PETs for seven years. Representatives say they want to be certain the non-motorized vehicles assembled at the new volunteer-operated plant will get the proper blessing. The vehicles are donated all over the world to people unable to walk because of birth defects injury or disease. "This is appropriate because we donate these without any regard to creed race country sex how much hair you have on your head or anything else" said Mel West the retired Methodist minister who co-founded the movement in 1993 along with Larry Hills a Methodist minister working in Central Africa and Earl Miner a design engineer from Marshfield. The PET project will assemble about 2000 of the hand-cranked vehicles this year at 13 assembly points in the United States and abroad… Representatives say they want to be certain the non-motorized vehicles assembled at the new volunteer-operated plant will get the proper blessing. The vehicles are donated all over the world to people unable to walk because of birth defects injury or disease. "This is appropriate because we donate these without any regard to creed race country sex how much hair you have on your head or anything else" said Mel West the retired Methodist minister who co-founded the movement in 1993 along with Larry Hills a Methodist minister working in Central Africa and Earl Miner a design engineer from Marshfield. The PET project will assemble about 2000 of the hand-cranked vehicles this year at 13 assembly points in the United States and abroad. The vehicles resemble wooden wheelchairs with seats hand cranks and sturdy rubber wheels. West 83 said even though the PET project was started by Methodists it sends more units to Muslims in the developing world than to people of any other faith. "We want them to go where they’re needed the most" he said.
Vine that ate the South is creeping northward
Toronto Star – Oct 13, 2007
South kudzu was introduced in the 1930s as a means of controlling soil erosion. But its ability to grow 18 metres a year has turned it into a major threat to forests and agricultural land. Heather Coiner a PhD student at U of T’s department of ecology and evolutionary biology is in the second year of a five-year study of kudzu funded by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. "I’ve seen it in Albany N. " Coiner says from her lab at U of T. "The crown was very large it was probably 10 to 15 years old… " Coiner says from her lab at U of T. "The crown was very large it was probably 10 to 15 years old. "The plant was pulled out and destroyed but the fact it had survived ?28C weather in Albany is a worry for invasive plant researchers. No kudzu sightings have been reported in Canada says Marilyn Taylor at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency which is also responsible for the program designed to prevent the spread of plant pests. But scientists are on watch. "These things can be brought in because someone thinks it’s a pretty plant" Taylor says. The voracious variegated goutweed is often shared as a "good ground cover" plant but once established it spreads with terrifying speed.
Delphos taps into new water system
Delphos Herald – Oct 13, 2007
Williams describes how the process works at the new treatment plant. ?The Delphos Water Treatment plant is designed to remove turbidity taste and odor causing compounds soluble organic contaminates hardness causing compounds and microbial contaminates from the Little Auglaize River water supply and deliver a high quality bacterialogically safe and uninterrupted supply of potable water for municipal commercial and industrial use. The water treatment plant is designed with a treatment capacity of 3. 75 million gallons per day. The design average rate is 1. 875 million gallons per day? Williams said. ?The Delphos Water treatment facility is a conventional two-stage softening surface water treatment plant employing preoxidation first-stage ferric sulfate treatment with rapid mixing flocculation and sedimentation and second-stage lime softening followed by recarbonation and rapid sand filtration.