Friday Window Cleaning News

Woman appalled that streets of Thailand were cleaner than UK launches one-woman clean-up campaign: A pensioner, embarrassed to discover that the streets of Thailand were cleaner than her home town, has launched a one-woman campaign to clean up her local streets. Sandra White spends three hours every morning patrolling the streets of Spalding, Lincolnshire, cleaning litter, and even paid a local window cleaner to wash shelters in the town's bus station. The 67-year-old, who doesn't earn a penny for her efforts, has set her sights on returning the town's streets to the condition they were in when she first moved there in the 1960s. She told how she was embarrassed to discover that the streets in Thailand were much cleaner than those in the UK, when she visited the country on holiday.
'I once went on holiday to Thailand and to be honest I was embarrassed by how clean the streets were compared to England,' she said today. 'I know people wonder why I do it, but I just like a job to be done properly. 'When we came to Spalding 40 years ago it immaculate, but it isn't the same now. 'I clean out the gutters and the grass verges, it can be a horrible job with everything from urine to half empty beer can. 'But it is amazing what you find when your a cleaning streets, I've found everything from money to unopened packages that have been stolen from shops. 'I joke that you could live off the streets working from the gutter upwards.'
Local window cleaner Paddy Durham told how Mrs White paid him £70 from her own pocket to wash shelters in the town's bus station. He said: 'Sandra is out there 365 days a year for three hours a day cleaning the streets, picking up rubbish and just generally tidying up the verges. 'Really she deserves some sort of medal for keeping the town so clean. 'She started off by paying me £70 to clean the bus station, and has paid me another £10 to clean up the shelter outside the cemetery. 'I don't really know why she does it. She just hates to see Spalding in a state, and will go up and down the road all day. 'I think her husband just goes along with it but sometimes you see him helping out.'
In the last six months alone she has collected 500 bags of bottles, cans and fast food debris. She is now looking for volunteers to help with her campaign. 'I think it needs someone like me to stand up like this. 'With the credit crunch and all these people out of work you would have though people could spare a couple of hours a day. 'It is not enough for just me to be going round Spalding keeping it tidy, I can't do it all on my own.

In an effort to expand its services and better meet its customers’ needs, Desert Eagle Powerwash is now offering window cleaning as part of its comprehensive cleaning package. The service complements an already-extensive range of commercial cleaning solutions offered by the company throughout Arizona, including power washing, pressure washing and power sweeping. “Our goal is to be at the top of the class in our industry,” said Corey Justice, founder of Desert Eagle Powerwash. “We have the latest and most innovative equipment, a well-trained and professional staff and a customer-first attitude.”
Desert Eagle’s new window cleaning service features thoroughly trained window cleaning technicians and state-of-the-art equipment capable of handling all types of window maintenance. The service can include both interior and exterior cleaning of windows. In addition to its new window cleaning service, Deseret Eagle Powerwash offers a full range of power washing/sweeping services, including concrete foundations, sidewalks, parking lots, dumpster pads, Drive Thru’s, and pool decks along with oil/grease removal, post-construction clean-up and restroom steam cleaning. The company complies with all Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards and offers biodegradable detergents.
Using 225-degree heat and top-of the-line equipment, Desert Eagle Powerwash offers the best in commercial cleaning solutions, from systems set up to be able to transport dirty water to a waste management site to using a backpack blower and even hand picking hard-to-reach areas, including in and under bushes. The company services communities throughout the state of Arizona, including Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, Goodyear and Scottsdale. Founded in 2006 by Justice, a former United State Marine Sergeant and Iraq veteran, Desert Eagle has grown from just two full-time employees to 12 and boasts three power washing rigs with a fourth currently being built and two parking lot sweepers. The company aims to provide a superior customer experience and was nominated by the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce as the Best of Phoenix in 2007.
“We just noticed that in this particular industry there was lots of room for opportunity given the fact that so many individuals in this line of work were under trained and often had equipment that did not meet the requirements of the job,” said Justice. “With a lasting emphasis on quality workmanship and an incomparable commitment to customer satisfaction, we’ve become a trusted leader in the professional cleaning industry for commercial properties.” To celebrate this new service, Desert Eagle Powerwash is currently offering a discount to new customers. Any new customer who signs a six-month contract will receive 10 percent off the total cost. Interested persons can call Desert Eagle at (623) 882-4771 and mention the code “POWERCLEAN” to take advantage of the discount and find out how Desert Eagle Powerwash can accommodate all their commercial cleaning needs.

GRAND RAPIDS-Robert Jackson spent 23 months in the Grand Rapids Correction Center earlier this decade for home invasion and fleeing and eluding. The 43-year-old Kentwood native is back in the building, but this time by choice. He is running the kitchen in the former state prison facility, which is undergoing a face-lift. The building at 322 Front Ave. SW closed in January 2008 after 15 years as a halfway house. It is reopening in August as the Exodus Building, a nonprofit transitional housing and educational campus. "I've watched too many good people lose momentum because they had something bad happen in their life," said Robb Munger, Guiding Light Mission's former director who is now in charge of Exodus. "I just don't think anybody is disposable. I think everyone deserves a chance to work and to prove themselves."
Munger envisions Exodus as a business incubator and work service agency, where individuals down on their luck can rent a room in a structured environment and learn new skills. "It doesn't take a whole lot to start a lawn care or window-cleaning business," he said

Whitstable will host the UK’s Strongest Man competition this Saturday and organisers say local man Paul Wood (pictured) is tipped to win. The Whitstable window cleaner won the South East’s Strongest Man competition earlier in the year in which competitors must complete seven gruelling feats of strength. Andy Dilnot, who organised the competition, said: “In true strongman style we’ve got some inanimate objects to be picked up, including barrels filled with cement, lumps of granite rock, railway sleepers, a Ford Escort, atlas stones, and a jeep to pull. “These guys, while they’re pleasant people, they’re also animals.
“I help train them and some of them still surprise me about what they can actually pick up off the floor. They can lift twice what I weigh above their heads, and I’m not a small fellow.” The weights being lifted are enormous. The men will have to complete a ‘farmer’s walk’ with 150kg weights in each hand, lift atlas stones of up to 160kg, and flip a 450kg tyre, yet Mr Wood is confident. Mr Wood said: "I believe I am capable of winning, definitely. My best event is probably the farmers walk, which is something I am quite renowned for being good at. "A lot of people having people have been coming up to me wishing me luck and saying they are sure I am going to win which is good, but it's a bit of pressure on top.”
The event will be for the 105kg category, meaning the strongmen must all weigh less than 16.5 stone. Mr Dilnot said: “I’ll be biased here when I say this but he is probably the strongest of his weight category in the country.” The national final, which takes place on July 26 at Whitstable Rugby Club, will put contestants through a set of seven events to test their strength. The competition, which is free, will also have an outdoor bar, a barbecue, a karate demonstration and a professional compere for the uninitiated. The lifting will begin at 11am and will continue until 5pm for the presentation of trophies and prize money. The UK Strength Council asked Whitstable to host the competition

Council shuts down Eastbourne nightclub where teenager was killed: A nightclub has been shut down after a teenager was battered to death inside. The Funktion Rooms in Pevensey Road, Eastbourne, has been shut down by Eastbourne Borough Council following the death of 19-year-old Ben Lund. The council’s licensing committee called an emergency meeting following an application from Sussex Police and members decided to suspend the nightclub’s licence over fears revellers were being put in danger there. The death of the popular window cleaner, who was described as “calm” and “caring”, shocked the community. His family said they were “utterly devastated” by their loss.

It sounds pane-ful: A reader tells us he was attending a fracture clinic where he got into conversation with a chap having his leg, which was in a stookie, checked. The man said he was a former window cleaner. Our reader asked him when he'd given up the job, which allowed the chap to give his prepared answer: "Halfway down."

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As power is provided on the van from the engine for all cleaning systems both window cleaning and truck mounted carpets, upholstery and floor cleaning; this means no electricity or water is used at the site, which again reduces overall energy consumption and is beneficial to the environment.

Blessings counted as Dracut boy, 3, recovers from window plunge: The day Patrick fell, the family's window was open, but the screen was in the window and locked, Maria said. A couple days earlier, Paquette was washing the windows, and knew Patrick had watched her open the screen. She thinks Patrick stood on the radiator, which stands a couple inches above the floor, and was somehow able to push the screen up and out of the window. When Patrick fell, he landed on top of the screen on the pavement. Nearly a month after 3-year-old Patrick Paquette fell 15 feet onto his driveway, his mother, Maria, is counting her blessings. He wears a helmet as his fractured skull heals.

Fraud: A resident on the 2300 block of Meadow Drive North reported July 15 that two white males between 19 and 21 came to her door about 4 p.m. June 22 and told her their family had a window washing business. The resident hired them to clean her windows July 12 and gave them two checks, one for $96 and one for $48, payable to QSI. One of the men said a confirmation notice would be sent to her. The notice never arrived and no one came to wash the windows, but the checks were cashed and deposited into an account for Quality Subscriptions Inc.

Vandals Hit Zoo Again, Honolulu; If he could talk to the animals he cares for, zoo keeper Solo Kaahanui would ask who committed the latest crime at the Honolulu Zoo. Graffiti bandits have struck again. "This is defacing public property. It's no class," he said. Last week someone defaced 21 glass panels. Tuesday they scratched fourteen more at seven sites. Some of the tagging went over last week's etchings, like someone's marking territory. The damage estimate is adding up for taxpayers. "If we had to pay for them to replace, each pane is going to be between $1,000 to $1,200," Dept. of Environmental Services director Sydney Quintal said. World Wide Window Cleaning has offered to cut the cost but the repair work could take weeks. "Basically, we'd have to sand down the surface of the glass and then you come in with a different material that polishes the glass," Stephen McDunn said. Zoo officials said the latest graffiti may be the work of a copy cat. There's talk of adding security officers and keeping watch in other ways. "We're going to have to make some tough decisions and find funding for security cameras," zoo director Stephen Walker said. The latest vandalism happened between 10:30 a.m. And 1:30 p.m. when the zoo was crowded. If you have any information on the crime call Honolulu police.