Sunday Window Cleaning News

Walker grew up in Ohio and had worked in Philadelphia before following his mother to Arizona after she remarried. Even though Walker worked there only part-time in Foothills in recent months he'd been a server and a bartender for six years but owned his own window-washing and custom-screen business. He remained incredibly close to his co-workers there. The recipient of this week's Ben's Bell is Jana Huntsinger (pictured middle), who makes life wonderful for employees at the Foothills restaurant where she works — and made life a lot easier for the family of one of those employees when he took his own life in August. Huntsinger was nominated by Charlotte Tuuri, who described Huntsinger's help after her son, Dave Walker, died as "really over, above and beyond what she had to do." Almost as soon as they walked into the Applebees Neighborhood Grill at the Foothills Mall, they noticed all the employees had on buttons with Walker's face on them. "I was just blown away," Tuuri said. "They put the date he was born and the date he died, and it said, 'We love you, Dave.' That Applebees is a very close-knit place. They care about each other." Walker grew up in Ohio and had worked in Philadelphia before following his mother to Arizona after she remarried. He'd been diagnosed with seasonal affective disorder, and the desert sun seemed to be helping, she said. But the stresses began piling up. Still, she talked to him about depression, and he told her he was going to be fine.
When Brett Hedrick (pictured) watched a group of youngsters with spina bifida fishing from their wheelchairs last weekend, it brought back memories of some of the happiest moments of his childhood. He, too, was afflicted with the birth defect. And there were some tough times — times when he was shunned by others and made to feel “different.” But fishing was always an escape for Hedrick, a way to fit in and feel proud of himself. And he was hoping to pass along that love of the sport — and its life-changing qualities — to others with spina bifida when he sponsored a special fishing outing last weekend at the James A. Reed Memorial Wildlife Area. “Now I am trying to give back. I’d like some of these kids to get the same enjoyment out of the outdoors that I always have.” Spina bifida, a birth defect that affects the development of the spinal cord, played a major role in Hedrick’s life. “I spent so much time in the hospital, it was pathetic,” he said. But Hedrick was grateful for the fact that he wasn’t confined to a wheelchair or forced to rely on crutches or a walker, as many victims of spina bifida are. That’s never changed. Today, he has a family, he owns a window cleaning business and he still loves to go fishing.
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A YOUNG couple have told how their hopes for a dream wedding in America nearly turned into a nightmare.Stephen Butterfield and Gemma Wrench plus 12 friends and relatives paid more than £7500 to fly to Florida with the airline XL. But, just two weeks before they were due to travel, the company collapsed, leaving them heavily out of pocket. Stephen, 27, and Gemma, 25, spent a week desperately trying to raise enough money to keep their wedding plans alive. The couple, from Burradon, North Tyneside, managed to scrape enough money together to book flights with Virgin Atlantic. This weekend, they are all due to fly to Florida, where they will share two villas. Stephen and Gemma can finally look forward to getting married in the Little White Wedding Chapel at Kissimmee. Gemma said: “I’ve been to hell and back in the last couple of weeks. Stephen, a window cleaner and Gemma, a housewife, have been together for nine years.
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Father and son merge companies to form unique business: SANDSTONE - In most family-run businesses there has long been a tradition of passing the business from father to son. But for Steve Miller and his father, Herbert, they decided to combine their talents to form a unique business.Miller’s Exterminating in Sandstone has added the slogan, “We do windows too!”“I had my own window washing company and dad had Miller’s Exterminating,” Steve Miller said. “The merger of our two businesses has been very, very successful.”Miller said he worked for his father for about four years before going into business for himself.“There was a need and demand for a good window washing company in this region, so I opened my own business,” he said. “I didn’t realize how successful that was going to be, but things have been going very well.”Last month, Miller said his dad decided to retire and passed the business to him.“I have experience with both sides of the business, so he left it in good hands,” Miller said.To Miller’s surprise, many of his customers want both pest control and window washing at the same time.“It’s funny how many people will call us out for exterminating services and also get their windows washed,” he said.
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A memorial service will be at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, in Village Baptist Church in Beaverton, Oregon for John Martin Traver, who died Sept. 8 at age 79. John Martin Traver was born Jan. 1, 1929, in Minneapolis, and moved to Portland as a child. He had worked for the Portland Fire Bureau and Portland Police Bureau and more recently had a window cleaning business. In 1969, he married Helen Beebe. Survivors include his wife; son, Marti; daughter, Stephanie Quinn; stepsons, David Glass and Sherman Glass; stepdaughters, Barbara Mann, Kitty Glass, Glenda Glass and Nancy Hlady; brothers, Bill and Bud; sister, Doris Ford; 18 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
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A few window cleaning videos for your enjoyment....