Can you see clearly now? Luke Murray of Capital Window Cleaning does some spring cleaning at the front window of Vogue optical. if you can't see the letters, it's time to have your eyes checked.
A CLEARER VIEW OF OPENING DAY. Pat Kincaid of Fish Window Cleaning, clears the winter season off the luxury box windows at O'Brien Field on Tuesday in preparation for the Chiefs opening day on Thursday. When the Chiefs aren’t using the stadium, it is also the home field of the Bradley University baseball team and plays host to numerous high school games during the season.
Yuggies are yearning for work: Spotted on an E. Ninth St lamppost recently was an ad with the word “Yuggies” on it. “Help us help you and give us something to do,” it implored. The Yuggies, or Young Urban Graduates — not to be confused with yuppies — is a group that was started a couple of months ago by five New York University students and graduates. They were frustrated with the common problem young people face of needing to find a job but having trouble getting hired due to lack of experience; meanwhile, they can’t get experience if no one hires them. Also, the Yuggies needed to start making some money to begin paying off their school debts. Yuggies offers services ranging from language lessons and grocery shopping to SAT prep and window cleaning. The Yuggies understand the current economic crisis, and offer their services to the community for extremely low prices.
Surrey Police community support officers park illegally to buy fast food: A pair of peckish police community support officers have been rapped after parking on double yellow lines to buy fast food. But despite the pair being caught illegally parked outside Caterham Charcoal Grill, High Street, Caterham-on-the-Hill, the driver escaped with a dressing down from a senior officer, and a donation to charity. Superintendent Kul Verma said: "Surrey Police expects the very highest standards from its staff at all times. Having reviewed this matter, the actions of our staff have fallen far below our normal high standards as there was no operational reason for the contravention of the road markings. "Those officers concerned have already been spoken to and will be disciplined regarding their conduct on this day, and what is expected from them in the future. Window cleaner Mark Williams, of Milner Close, Caterham, who snapped the arresting sight, said: "I managed to find a space and there must have been other places they could park. I'm not angry about it, I just think it's quite funny." "I'm going to be really careful where I park from now on. I don't want the police after me because I took their photo." June Venters QC, a specialist criminal lawyer of Venters Solicitors, High Street, Reigate, said: "The police have to set an example. If they don't they will find the public will lose respect for them, and I'm sure they don't want that."
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LOCAL CURRENCY: A small British village is printing its own currency in a bid to preserve community values and fight climate change. When thirty somethings tire of London they move to Brighton, where they wear expensive Japanese denim and talk in an accent just this side of Michael Caine. After a few years, their aspirations shift to Lewes, a pretty hillside town in southern England - like Dalkey, but 10 miles inland - which takes Brighton's laidback, arty atmosphere and adds about a hundred grand to the price of a small Victorian terrace. What sets Lewes apart is that it has its own currency, the Lewes Pound, which was launched in September last year to promote the town's status as a "transition town". This is an international scheme whereby residents unite to preserve community values and fight climate change and fossil-fuel dependency by favouring local produce over that available from international conglomerates. An initial launch of 3,000 Lewes pound notes was greeted with enthusiasm by the locals, and by the online community who traded the £1 notes on eBay for up to £35 each. The money tracks the value of sterling but is not legal tender, relying on the trust of local people and the shop owners who have bought into the scheme, as indicated by a small green sign in their windows. Local exchange trading schemes (Lets) like the Lewes pound are not common, but hardly unique. For instance, a Lets system was operating in Galway city in the mid-1990s, and America now has at least 12 separate local currency schemes. "I have a few notes in my till," says Scott, from behind the counter in Wickle, a gift shop in the town's renovated Needlemakers factory. "We use them to pay for local services. For example, the window cleaner takes them." Not so the lady in WH Smiths: "We're not allowed to take them, we're a national chain you see." Likewise, the bureau de change desk in the local post office was having none of it.
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Pella advocates window safety/ National Window Safety Week is April 5-11: As temperatures rise, so can the potential for accidental falls as more North Americans open windows and doors to let in fresh air. To help promote greater safety, Pella Corporation has partnered with the National Safety Council (NSC), through its Window Safety Task Force, to share safety tips during National Safety Week April 5 – 11, for use year-round. “For safety’s sake, keep an eye on children and keep their play away from windows and doors,” said Kathy Krafka Harkema, Pella’s window safety spokesperson and a NSC Window Safety Task Force member. “There’s no substitute for adult supervision, when it comes to maintaining child safety. So whether you’re a parent, a caregiver or have young children visiting in your home, practice window and door safety year-round.”
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POLICE have held their hands up and admitted they were "unfair" to fine motorists for making U-turns on the A12 in Havering where there were no signs stating they could not do so. At least 10 fuming motorists were slapped with a £60 fine and three points on their licence throughout the week of Monday, March 16, for apparently not complying with signage on the Colchester-bound carriageway at the junction with Harold Court Road. But motorists complained it was wrong because there is not a no U-turns sign. Now Traffic Operations Inspector Phil Langworthy, from Chadwell Heath Traffic Garage, has said all fines will be withdrawn. One driver, 18-year-old window cleaner, Matt Richards, of Arlington Gardens, Harold Wood, who only passed his test six-months ago, faced losing his licence as a result of the manoeuvre. "I already had three points for speeding and you aren't allowed more than six in the first two years. I was well annoyed. "If I lost my licence I'd most probably have lost my job as well," Matt said. He along with all drivers stopped during this operation, set up to prevent crashes, received letters this week explaining their fines had been cancelled.
Cutbacks ripple through many other businesses: On a recent morning at Healey Chevrolet in Beacon, about 10 employees roamed the empty showroom. They would wait a long time for a customer. Healey, like just about every auto dealership in the country, has seen its sales deteriorate as consumers, worried about their jobs, aren't about to sink thousands of dollars into a new car. Now, Paul and Dwight Healey, partners in the business their father started, are shedding ballast in an effort to stay weatherly in the worst economic tempest in decades. The belt-tightening extends to the guy who washes their windows to the diner where employees used to eat dinner. Domestic auto sales are down 40 percent or more nationwide. General Motors' U.S. sales in March fell by 45 percent from the same month a year ago. Healey Brothers has watched its revenue fall about 20 percent from its peak in 2004. Window washing went from once a week to once a month. Even document shredding, mandated for paperwork containing Social Security numbers, went from monthly to quarterly. "Now, when we buy a box of pens, we look at how much it costs," Paul Healey said.
Firefighters team forms for 'technical' rescues: A newly formed team of firefighters from throughout the region has been practicing rescues this week in downtown Peabody. The 45-member unit, including firefighters from Peabody, Beverly, Lynn and a number of other communities throughout Essex County, will specialize in unique "technical" rescues, Peabody fire Chief Steve Pasdon said. The training is addressing "high-angle" rescues and will provide skills to extract someone, for example, from a cliff or tree or save a high-rise window washer in distress, the chief said. The team will also learn about confined-space rescues and how to save victims of a trench collapse.
A visionary entrepreneur: A self-described visionary, Tarverdi immigrated from Iran with his family as a boy in 1971. He visited Modesto and its sizable Assyrian community often in those years, he said. After his father died a few years later, Tarverdi set up a Bay Area window-washing business that expanded to a full-service janitorial business at customers' request. By 1991, his workers were cleaning 6.7 million square feet each night in Santa Clara County, The Business Journal of San Jose reported. Tarverdi's company grew and evolved into Continental Maintenance Industries, Centennial Contract Services and Platinum Facilities Services, boasting clients such as Pixar Animations Studios, NASA, Coca-Cola and Kmart. The firms handle $10 million annually in volume, Tarverdi said. "God has blessed me," he said. 
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