We have gathered here a collection of photos. They are photos that record history. History of the start of the work called Leyte Christian College, its first teachers—-Johnny Eastep, Jack Belo, Lawrence Belo, Charlie Sabado, Rolando Quevedo, Jonathan Lapitan— and of its first students.  Photo of the road built to make easy access to the farm land—virgin territory—giving rise to a Christian college that has been everyone’s dream. Photos of the ground-breaking that starts the new LCC building.  Photos of the first cottages. Of the chapel hour that is an occasion of rejoicing as everyone worships God and listens to His Word being preached. Photos that show how students have sweated it out at the final exam. And of the great leap of a young man named Jerusalem.

One day, everyone who has had a part in the work of Leyte Christian College will have something to reminisce, to remember each other by.  Photos that one could show to friends, to their spouses, or children, or grandchildren. It is a way to look back—-with joy.

After all, a picture, as the Chinese would say, is worth a thousand words.

Click  here to go to that page>>

This year West End and Westview have teamed up to bring you a grand day of celebrations and activities to kick off the holiday season. All events are open to the general public. If you haven’t ever ventured out to the Westside of Atlanta this is your chance to GO WEST!

The day will benefit The Atlanta BeltLine, which is a $2.8 billion redevelopment project that will shape the way Atlanta grows over the next 25 years and beyond. The project proposes a network of public parks, multi-use trails and transit along a historic railroad corridor circling downtown and connecting many neighborhoods directly to each other by streetcar or light rail.

ACTIVITY LINE-UP:

9:30am – 5K Walk-A-Thon Benefit for KIPP STRIVE Academy: Rain or shine. Get your legs on; get your exercise before the parties later. 5K = three miles and takes about one hour. Meet at KIPP STRIVE, 1444 Lucile Avenue – the former JC Harris Elementary School in Westview. To register for the walk or to help with planning please contact Scott Shepherd at (404) 277-5970.

12:00pm – BeltLine Trail Ground Breaking Ceremony: Meet at Muse Street and Lucile Avenue at high noon to celebrate the ground breaking for the next leg of the BeltLine Trail. Once complete, the trail will connect Rose Circle Park with the Westview Cemetery and add more green space to the community. Free giveaways from the BeltLine. Walk-A-Thon ends at the ground breaking site. For more information or to help with planning please contact Patrick Berry at (404) 755-1255.

12:15pm – Westview Holiday Party at Fire Station Number 17: Immediately after the Beltline Ground Breaking Ceremony join the Westview Community Organization and the firefighters for a traditional holiday lunch at Fire Station 17, 1489 R.D. Abernathy Boulevard. Please bring a dish to share. For more information or to help with planning please contact Ayana Gabriel at (404) 345-3209. 

7:00-11:00pm – Cocktail Party and Hord’Oeuvres at the Hammonds House: Join West End, Westview & West End Merchants Coalition for a Gala to celebrate our historic shared past, our delightful present and our fantastic future. To our resident guests, please reach out to friends in other neighborhoods that are looking to live in or buy in our neighborhood. The holiday party will be a great introduction to the area by meeting our greatest asset: our friends and neighbors. The party is pot luck Hor d’Oeuvres with live music. In lieu of a dish, a small donation is suggested. This is a benefit for the community. For more information or to help with planning please contact Carl Nes at (404) 755-2000.

For more information about the BeltLine, please visit www.beltline.org. More information about the day of activities is available at: www.atlantawestend.com – www.westviewatlanta.com – www.wemc.biz.

The state broke ground today on a new Hold Cargo and Light Industrial Building at Hilo International Airport.  The 60,000 square-foot, steel-framed building will be used to accommodate delivery and transport of goods into Hilo.

A ground breaking ceremony was held today for a new cargo faciity in Hilo. Photo Courtesy: Hawaii State Department of Transportation.

State officials with the Department of Transportation say the project also includes the construction of a 50,000 square-yard apron as well as taxiways designed to support wide-body cargo aircraft.

The total cost for this two-phase project is approximately $30 million.  Phase I will include construction of the air carrier apron at a cost of $15 million, $10 million of which is federally-funded.  The second phase involves the construction of the cargo building and a parking lot at a cost of $15 million in state airport funds.

When completed, the new cargo building will be closer to the main terminal and will allow for the consolidation of all cargo operations under one roof.  DOT officials say the move will increase the efficiency of airline operations.

The existing cargo facility will then be utilized as a future heliport.  Construction of both project phases by contractor Isemoto Contracting Co. Ltd. is anticipated for completion in November 2011.

(Posted by Wendy Osher)

You can view  more pictures from yesterday’s meeting on our Picture page. Thanks to all of the parents who helped out with the meeting yesterday, as well as Jess and Mariam from the EB High School Key Club.

One thing we learned from yesterday’s meeting is that 90 minutes was a bit too long, especially for some of the younger members. Beginning with our next meeting on November 4th, the garden club meetings will end at 4:30pm. An hour will give us plenty of time to have a snack and complete our scheduled activities. If you have any questions about the time change, please email or call Kate.

Thank you to everyone for a great kickoff meeting! We’ll see you on November 4th.

The Central School Gardeners

invite you to attend a

groundbreaking ceremony

of the

Central School Organic Garden

on Wednesday, October 14^th, 2009

at 5:00pm

behind the Central School cafeteria and teachers’ parking area

(rain date TBA)

Please bring your own shovel!

Please contact Kate Strassel at k.m.strassel@gmail.com or (508) 378-6005 for more information.

The official ground breaking to begin the construction of the Whiteman Air Force Base Communications Facility took place on August 25, 2009. This 37,750 SF 2-story design-build project is expected to be complete in September of 2010.

This morning saw the introduction of yet another ground-breaking television feature to appear on “Jack TV”. Minutes earlier, ‘The Space’ was born and will be filmed and broadcasted every week on Channel Jack.

“What is this Space?!”, I hear you cry (as I have extremely good hearing). Well, I’ll tell you a bit but I don’t want to ruin it…

‘The Space’ is, funnily enough, a space which will appear every Friday at 11am somewhere in East London and if you are lucky enough to be in ‘The Space’ at that time, you will be appearing on “Jack TV” the next week!

What you do in ‘The Space’ is entirely up to you… but be warned, it is in a public space!

Since it’s conception, ‘The Space’ has had dancing, jigging, stretching, hugging and Lu kissing the actual pavement in it’s comforting vicinity.

These antics will form part of the first airing of ‘The Space’ next week when “Jack TV” launches but what happens after that is all up to you lovely people…

See you next Friday!

We officially broke ground this morning. Woo hoo! There was a big bulldozer out clearing the land and doing a great job of it. R went out over his lunch break to take some pictures and it was mostly cleared already. I have pictures but I don’t have time so you’ll just have to wait.

This event was open to the public and I am kind of kicking myself for not making more of an effort to try to attend.  This is the first ‘real’ step when it comes to the construction of the Marlins’ new home.  Just 32 months from now construction will be done and we will be able to enjoy baseball during the 2012 season in this state-of-the-art baseball stadium.

Here are a few pics from today’s groundbreaking ceremony:

I heard on the local sports radio station, 790 The Ticket, that Charlie Hough and Benito Santiago were on hand to throw out and catch the first ‘official’ pitch today.  I am dying to find a picture of that and when I do I will share it with all of you.

 The initial steps towards providing a new home for orphaned and disadvantaged children in the TCI took place yesterday as officials from the Provo Children’s Home broke ground for a new location.

Officials of Seven Day Adventist church broke ground for their second Branch in the Long Bay Hills area this past Sunday.

This morning the trustees signed the loan documents with Security National Bank to finance the new fire station, then held the official groundbreaking ceremony at the building site. 

After several years leading up to this day we are officially building a new fire station/adminstrative building for the township!

David Phares, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, welcomed everyone out on this beautiful morning, and was followed by a few brief words from Trustees David Finfrock and Nancy Brown.  The time was then turned over to State Senator and project architect Chris Widener, who commented on the vitality of western Clark County and the Bethel Township area, as evidenced by the construction of this new station.   He also thanked Jim Leathly and Security National Bank for their support in moving this project forward.  County Commissioner Roger Tackett then spoke, representing that Board in his capacity as Chairman.

Senator Chris Widener, Trustee David Finfrock, Fire Chief Jacob King, Trustee Chairman David Phares, County Commissioner Roger Tackett, Trustee Nancy Brown, and Fiscal Officer Melanie Cochran

Chief King gave the keynote address of the day, with brief but inspiring words.

Chief King emphasized the importance of the new fire station for providing service to the township and quoted Helen Keller in his keynote address.

It was then time for the official groundbreaking itself.  Wearing hard hats and wielding golden shovels, township officials and others turned the first dirt for the project.

Township Administrator Tim King, Fire Chief Jacob King, Trustee Nancy Brown, Fiscal Officer Melanie Cochran, Jim Leathly of Security National Bank, County Commissioner Roger Tackett, Trustees David Finfrock and David Phares, Senator (and architect) Chris Widener, and Jason Funderburg of WDC architectural firm

Many members of the fire department were in attendance, and they also had an opportunity to help officially break ground for the building.  They are excited at the prospect of working out of a new station that will fulfill all the needs of a modern fire department.

We have some of the greatest personnel in the fire service. Thank you to each of them for all they do for the township and its residents.

Estimates for the completion date are the January or February time frame, but we are holding out hope for a BIG Christmas present this year.

Keep an eye on the progress as you drive by on Gerlaugh and Lake Roads.  We will also keep you updated on progress on this blog, on the township website, and in our fall newsletter.

This is the 16th year of Decorex Joburg and the 2nd year that Badec Bros Mosaic will be exhibiting our design prowess at this prestigious design expo. Our sister companies, Kingfisher Landscaping, Badec Bros Wooden Decking and Badec Bros Deco will also be displaying their individual artistic ideas and products, in conjunction with Badec Bros Mosaic.

Badec Bros Mosaic, previously known as Magnum Opus Mosaic, will be showing off with their chic and sophisticated mosaic art. Kingfisher Landscaping will be strutting their stuff with ground-breaking landscaping design. Badec Bros Wooden Decking will be showing off with their professional and elegant wooden decks, in all shapes, sizes and finishes. Badec Bros Deco will be flaunting their trendy ranges of interior and exterior décor products, such as steel pots, sculptures, trellises, pergolas, gabion walls and classy benches.

This year, Decorex Joburg will run from 6 to 10 August 2009 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand. The theme for this year’s expo is New Fusion and aims to promote environmentally friendly designs and products. Our innovative and inspiring stand will be in Hall 3. Keep these dates in mind and pay us a visit at Decorex Joburg 2009! We look forward to bowling you over with our ingenious ideas and designs.

Should you be interested in having Talita Badenhorst design and quote you on a unique mosaic for your home, garden or company, you can contact her on her e-mail address at talita@badecbros.com She will gladly arrange an appointment with you to stun you with her creative ideas.

If you’re anything like me, your first reaction to that headline goes something like this:

“Say WHAAAAAAA?????”

That’s what I did when my wife told me about it. She apparently got the info from Perez Hilton at 9:15 this morning…the day Perez gets the drop on me when it comes to geek culture (gay or no) is a sad day indeed. Some people are trying to say its a publicity stunt, but  writer Peter David says its the real deal.

“It’s not a fake out. A number of people seem to be concerned that Star is still under Cortex’s control. Or that Rictor is going to freak out the next panel and say, ‘Dude, what the hell?’ That would be cheap. I don’t do cheap. Okay, sometimes I do, but not this time. I’m not interested in having people say, ‘Peter David introduced this and then chickened out.’"

Apparently there have been hints to their relationship before now, and the latest issue of X-Factor confirms suspicions. Not to shit in anyone’s cereal here, but I don’t think this is going stick. It’s not going be David’s fault. Kudos to him for having the stones to pull this shit off. But anyone who reads my blog knows that I don’t read Marvel because they have continuity issues. Some writer will come along after David’s moved on to other projects, and either explain the whole incident away or ignore it completely and give one or both of these characters female romantic interests.

Still, this fact does not cheapen the fact that mainstream comics has addressed the gay issue. Way to deal with the elephant in the room, guys.

The groundbreaking moment takes place in X-Factor, 45 which went on sale today. I’ve uploaded an image of the last page for your convenience.

On an unrelated note: Does it annoy the fuck out of anyone but me that Rictor’s name is misspelled??? His mutant ability is to generate seismic energy waves (basically the guy can create earthquakes.) One would assume his name is taken from Charles RICHTER, the man who invented the RICHTER magnitude scale that we use to measure earthquakes, but Marvel insists that his name is RICTOR. Sorry about that. The English major in me reared his ugly head.

DS Out.

[Source: Peter David]

This is the 16^th year of Decorex Joburg and the 2nd year that Badec Bros Deco will be exhibiting our design prowess at this prestigious design expo.  Our sister companies, Kingfisher Landscaping, Badec Bros Wooden Decking and Badec Bros Mosaic will also be displaying their individual artistic ideas and products, in conjunction with Badec Bros Deco.

 Badec Bros Deco will be flaunting their trendy ranges of interior and exterior décor products, such as steel pots, sculptures, trellises, pergolas, gabion walls and classy benches.  Kingfisher Landscaping will be strutting their stuff with ground-breaking landscaping design.  Badec Bros Wooden Decking will be showing off with their professional and elegant  wooden decks, in all shapes, sizes and finishes.  Badec Bros Mosaic, trading as Magnum Opus Mosaic, will be showing off with their chic and sophisticated mosaic art.

This year, Decorex Joburg will run from 6 to 10 August 2009 at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand.  The theme for this year’s expo is New Fusion and aims to promote environmentally friendly designs and products. Our innovative and inspiring stand will be in Hall 3.

Keep these dates in mind and pay us a visit at Decorex Joburg 2009!  We look forward to bowling you over with our ingenious ideas and designs.

Should you wish to have your very own signature Badec Bros Deco customized sculpture, Cubedec bench, trendy steel décor with your company logo emblazoned on it, mild steel inspirational slogan, steel laser-cut signage, mild steel mould, Cubedec Pot, hanging sculpture, gabion pot, gabion wall or gabion terrace, wooden or steel feature poles, bar code trellis, Cubedec water feature, pergola, arch, dustbin or trellis, please feel free to contact our energetic and knowledgeable sales representative, Mareleen van Zijl, on her cell phone at 078 800 5112, the office number at 012 460 7990, or via e-mail at mareleen@badecbros.com.  You can also send an e-mail to our new sales representative, Maretha Pienaar at maretha@badecbros.com

We can deliver your unique Badec Bros Deco product(s) within 10 working days, upon acceptance of the design and quotation and the required 50% deposit.

They will gladly arrange an appointment with you to listen to your ideas and to stun you with our own creative ideas!  You dream it, we manufacture it!

We offer a 1 year guarantee on all our products.

Golden shovels lined up for the powers of Stillwater to break ground on construction on University Avenue.

The construction is supposed to take about nine months – just in time for that first football game against Georgia.

It will repair the road, make for a new parking garage exit and add OSU-style street lamps.

Thursday, May 7th, a group of nine Clinton County residents broke ground on a demonstration garden planned for the memorial site at J.W. Denver Williams Memorial Park. The group included: Guy, Sandy, Maggie, and Nellie Ashmore, Cynthia Hannah, Ceel Wathen, Dana Williams, Angela Simonson, and Taylor Stuckert.

The proposal for the demonstration garden was approved by the Parks Board on April 13th. The total area for the plot is 12’x14’ and will feature a rotation of four beds, which includes one raised-bed plot.

The demonstration garden is in conjunction with the greater community gardens initiative, which has received broad community support and involvement. 

The garden will be a way of illustrating both the nutritional and economical benefits of having a small-plot garden. Demonstration gardens are a great way to increase public awareness and serve as a valuable educational tool for people of all ages.

The goal is to have a place for teachers to bring students or public workshops to be given that provide a hands-on experience throughout various stages of the process.

The public is encouraged to visit the garden site which will continue to develop over the coming months. The garden is located in the memorial square (with the flag pole) by the volleyball courts.

Last week the U of L officially broke ground on the lastest addition to the campus – construction has begun on the new Daycare Facility here. This is a pretty big deal considering that this push for on campus daycare has taken nearly five full years to come to fruition.

Ground was broken by student leaders, senior level administrators, members of the Daycare Action Committee (DAC), and the outside service provider for the daycare facility. For many of the students present this opening was a large victory as the movement to bring daycare onto campus began as a grass roots movement. DAC was formed with the support of faculty and staff here at the U of L, but largely was made up of students. Their study on the need for daycare on campus was the prime spring board that got this issue moving along in the upper levels of administration. You can find many of their studies here.

All of those who worked so hard to bring this service to campus, congratulations – here’s to 2010, when the facility will officially open its doors for service.

Cheers,

Eric
VP Internal

Ground Breaking Ceremony

Ground Breaking Ceremony Held last March 25, 2009 for the Construction of 2 Rooms School Building. Pictures from left to right: PTCA President Pedro Bataoil, Brgy. Kagawad Kaoile of Baguinay, Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr.(Lot Donor), Board Member Danny C. Uy (5th District of Pangasinan), Dagupan City Councilor Alipio Fernandez Jr. III, Geraldine C. Orbeta (DAFSMES Head Teacher), Viraluz S. Raguindin CESO VI,CEO VI Schools Division Superintendent Urdaneta City, Urdaneta City Councilors Boboom Perez & Onofre Gorospe. The said School Building was donated by The Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc. Thru Board Member Danny C. Uy