Sunday Window Cleaning News

This year, Millards Cleaning are celebrating 90 Years of serving Central London. John Booth, Director at Millards said: "We are very happy to have reached this milestone in the history of our company, and we hope to be serving London for a further 90 years and beyond." Servicing the West End, Central London and the City, Millards Cleaning Services Ltd operations centre and offices are based just off Trafalgar Square. Millards Cleaning Services provide Office Cleaning and Window Cleaning in London, Central London, the West End, and the City. Major Millard founded the company in 1919, to provide employment for ex-servicemen from the First World War. Millard’s has always been based in the West End, originally in Bond Street, moving to Neal Street in 1947, to St Martins Lane in 1986 and to their current address 28 Charing Cross Road in 2003. 1994 was the year in which Millard’s was awarded the BS EN ISO 9001:2000 quality assurance.

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Doug Kirhofer and Gary Hunley are celebrating 25 years in the sporting goods business in the Fox Valley. Kirhofer is owner and Hunley is manager of Kirhofer's Sports in Aurora and Tri-City Sports in Batavia. The men are celebrating 25 years in business and 40 years of friendship. Jerry Gandt of Baker's Window Cleaning cleans the glass at Kirhofer's Sports on Aurora's West Side. The store sells a full line of sporting goods and apparel and supplies area team uniforms.

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When Chris Worden was lying on a hospital trolley waiting to go into surgery to save his foot, he made a promise to his surgeon. Window cleaner Chris told the medic that if he managed to save his foot - which was almost severed after a bike accident - he would give him £1,000. It has taken the father-of-three from Greyfriars Crescent, Fulwood, 11 years to keep to his promise - but he plans to cycle from Blackpool Tower to the Eiffel Tower in Paris next Thursday to do it. The 57-year-old has already raised £2,000 and will give half the cash to the orthopaedic unit at Royal Lancaster Infirmary, which saved his foot, and half to the children's ward at Royal Preston Hospital which saved his daughter Katherine's life. Chris said: "My daughter had leukaemia when she was little and was looked after at RPH, so it has always had a special place in my heart.
"In fact, when I set off on Thursday it will be the 20th anniversary of a John O'Groats to Land's End ride I did for them. "Now, Katherine actually works as a nurse on the children's ward, working with some of the nurses that actually looked after her. So I wanted to give something to them, but I also feel I owe it to the surgeon who saved my foot to keep the promise I made to him all those years ago."
He suffered the injury after his motorbike was involved in a car accident. Medical experts said he would have lost his foot if he had not been wearing protective boots. He said: "After the operation the surgeon came to see me and jokingly said, 'Where's my money, then?' and I said I would do it for him, even if it took me years. "It has taken me until now to get my confidence back and now I am ready to go, I reckon I can do 125 miles a day for four days which will get me to Paris – I think I might need a pedalo to get over the Channel though." If anyone wants to sponsor Chris, they can send cheques made payable to the 'Cycle Fund' to 46 Greyfriars Crescent, Fulwood, Preston, or telephone 01772 715523.
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Report of child taking is mistake: In what turned out to be a false alarm, Charlotte County sheriff's deputies mobilized five police agencies on land, air and water Friday to search for a man thought to have abducted a child. The large manhunt came after a woman reported what she thought was a child abduction in the Gulf Cove area at about 10:30 a.m. She described a man in a red pickup with pool supplies in the back struggling with a girl between 6 and 12 years old. "We had no reason to doubt her," Charlotte County sheriff's spokesman Bob Carpenter said. The woman did not have a cell phone and drove 20 minutes to work to call police. Sheriff's deputies set a staging area in a grocery store parking lot at State Road 776 and County Road 771. Detectives and dog, marine and aviation units began searching the area and running down leads. No one had reported a missing child, so deputies checked schools and sent a reverse 911 call to homes in the area. Police from Lee and Sarasota counties assisted along with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Three hours later, North Port police showed up at the Price Boulevard home of Leonard Haslage, who operates a window and pool cleaning business with his 17-year-old daughter and who drives a red Nissan pickup. Haslage's daughter answered the door and was surprised to see police. "We felt pretty comfortable we were on the right track," said North Port Police Sgt. Charles Ayres, who drove to the Haslage house with another officer. He said the daughter "looks young for her age" and Leonard Haslage "matched the description to a T." Charlotte County deputies arrived with the witness a few minutes later, and she identified Haslage as the man she had seen. Haslage and his daughter said they had been in the Englewood area but they had not done anything that could be interpreted as a struggle, Carpenter said. The caller "did absolutely the right thing" by contacting police, he said. Carpenter said he did not think police overreacted.
"We have to assume she was right," Carpenter said.

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Window cleaner’s death was a ‘shock’: THE DEATH of a window-cleaner from Borehamwood, who was found hanging at home, was described at an inquest as “totally unexpected”. Stephen Lue, 37, from Micklefield Way, was found dead by his father at his home on January 24. Paramedics were called to the house at around 1pm.
At the inquest, held on Wednesday at Hatfield Coroner’s Court, Coroner Edward Thomas said a post-mortem report showed there was 167mg of alcohol, more than twice the legal driving limit, in his system but no evidence of any medication. He said Mr Lue died of cardiac-respiratory failure due to suspension. Sergeant Mark Smith, from Hatfield police station, told the coroner he arrived to find Mr Lue on the floor with a noose around his neck and a bottle of Jack Daniels whisky and a glass beside his bed. Mr Lue had been suffering from depression since November 2008. Dr Rehan Siddiqi, a psychiatrist from Watford General Hospital’s crisis assessment and treatment team, first assessed Mr Lue on November 25 last year.
Mr Siddiqi said: “I first assessed him and saw he was suffering from a delusional disorder.
“We didn’t want to take him into hospital as it would have been disasterous if we made him leave his job. “He was quite proud he had set up his own business and wanted to continue doing that.”
He added: “I would say it was totally unexpected. I felt that he was quite a proud individual planning for the future. “I would not have thought Stephen would have taken this route.
“The team were shocked and called me to let me know. Stephen was an extremely nice chap.

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SULTAN: Two candidates have stepped forward to fill a vacant position on the Sultan City Council. The candidates are Jeffrey Beeler, owner of a Sultan-based window washing company, and Bob Knuckey, a retired print shop owner. Former Councilman Dale Doornek resigned from his position in March to pursue a master's degree. He started a four-year term in January 2008.
By state law the City Council is responsible for appointing a replacement, who will serve until the November election. The City Council plans to interview the candidates and choose one at 6 p.m. Thursday at City Hall, 319 Main St.
Both candidates are described as community-minded citizens already active in public service.
Beeler, a Sultan resident for nine years, served as the chairman of a city budget advisory panel and as a member of a storm-water stakeholders group that worked to reduce the city's proposed storm-water fees. He serves as treasurer of the advocacy group, U.S. 2 Safety Coalition.
His top priorities are more police services, helping the city create an identity and planning for new growth.

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Skyway reaches for the stars safely: Entrepreneurs are fond of saying that the sky is the limit for their companies but, in Kieran Meegan’s case, it’s true. Meegan’s company, Skyway, specialises in safety equipment for people working at heights, such as window cleaners and roofers. Since it was founded in January 2000, the company has worked on some of Ireland’s best-known buildings. Its current projects include work on the redevelopment of the Lansdowne Road stadium in Dublin, the building of the new Criminal Courts building, the National Conference Centre and Dublin Airport. It has also worked on Ireland’s tallest building, the Elysian in Cork, as well as the O2 Arena in Dublin and the Bank of Ireland on College Green. ‘‘We provide systems and equipment on all types of roofs to allow people to work safely at heights and prevent them falling,” said Meegan. The company employs 16 people with skills ranging from mechanical engineering and quality assurance to marketing, education and design. It also has a facilities services division that provides annual maintenance on all safety at height systems, as well as the training and supply of harnesses, lanyards and specialised safety equipment.
Meegan was born in Monaghan, the middle son in a family of farmers and shop owners who encouraged innovation and entrepreneurship from an early age. When the family moved to Kells, Co Meath, in the late 1970s,Meegan completed his second-level education at the local CBS. He went on to study at Dundalk Institute of Technology and Queen’s University in Belfast, gaining a first-class honours degree in civil engineering. After graduating from Queen’s, Meegan worked as a civil engineer in London from 1988 to 1992 before moving to Canada. In Toronto, he completed a masters in applied science, specialising in structural engineering, and took up a consultancy role.
One of his main clients was Pro-Bel, the biggest firm in the safety-at-height sector in the US. In 1998, he returned to Ireland to establish the Irish arm of Pro-Bel. A year later, he went his own way, leading to the setting up of Skyway with his wife Martina. Nine years later, despite the economic downturn, Meegan believes there are new opportunities for the company. ‘‘Prior to 2008, most of our work was on new buildings but, late in 2008, we started to focus on the retro fit market, offering solutions for existing buildings,” he said. ‘‘We see this slowdown as a good opportunity to innovate, educate and prepare our company for the years ahead. We plan to use this time to further expand our research and development division and to develop and manufacture more products in Kells.”