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Contractor distributes fuel additive
South Lake Tahoe electrical contractor Frank Champlin has brought the environmental term "Think globally, act locally" to his hometown.
Champlin, who's been in business for seven years, hopes to expand his energy to distributing Ethos, a fuel additive designed to increase gas mileage and reduce emissions and maintenance. He now buys it on the Internet for his four vehicles.
After hearing about the substance through a fellow contractor four months ago, he used it in his three work vehicles and household car. In some cases, Champlin has received four miles per gallon more than his prior mileage - with three tanks stretched to four for his company van. The mileage has been so good, he's extended his business coverage to Reno.
And once he crunched the calculator upon getting a smog test, the businessman figured he's eliminated four tons of carbon emissions from the air in Lake Tahoe.
Ocean City exercising options for affordable housing
OCEAN CITY — A city councilman Tuesday said he is not satisfied with the resort's answer to affordable housing. The island has more than $8 billion in property, virtually none of which could be described as affordable to the average New Jersey resident. The Council on Affordable Housing has determined that Ocean City must provide about 32 affordable homes in the next 10 years and rehabilitate another 71 homes. The city is employing several options to meet its affordable-housing obligation. The city will pay another town — not yet identified — to provide about half of its obligation or as many as 13 homes. The city also is considering building new rentals for senior citizens and developmentally disabled residents, said Shirley Bishop, the former director of the Council on Affordable Housing who now works as a city consultant.
Contractor gets another good deal
It looks as though Derry, N.H., contractor John Burke is finally going to start to pay for his part in a scheme to defraud the federal government out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in home-repair contracts. But he's still getting a good deal. Burke, who first pleaded guilty to bribery charges in March 2005, has managed to delay his sentencing until the end of this month. Burke paid about $100,000 in bribes over five year to former Veterans Administration loan specialist Robert Mayer of Salem, N.H., in exchange for home-renovation contracts worth $3.1 million. Mayer, a former Salem Planning Board member, faked invoices to make it appear several contractors had been awarded the jobs repairing homes the VA was renovating or selling. In fact, those contracts went only to those who paid him bribes.
Monarch Company Signs Lease To House Steel Framing Division
STUART, Fla., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Monarch Company has found a home in Stuart, Fla., for its newly launched steel framing division. The company has leased an 8,000-square-foot facility situated on two acres on Commerce Avenue in Stuart. The Monarch Company plans to house its construction and light gauge steel framing division in the new facility as soon as September 15 with the intention of also locating a modular steel framing operation in the building in the future. In addition to accommodating the growing need for comprehensive steel framing packages for homes and commercial structures, the steel framing division will also be able to work with builders to provide steel trusses for commercial and residential applications. The capability to offer truss packages will allow the Monarch Company to easily marry light gauge steel with other building materials such as concrete block.
Services set for man who died working in Iraq
A Sheridan man working as a contractor for Halliburton has been killed in Iraq, his family said. Craig Johnson, 40, spent nearly three years in Iraq, said Colleen Martin, his twin sister. She said family members are seeking details of when, where and how her only brother died. His ashes were being flown to Oregon on Friday with a co-worker. Johnson drove oil tankers and was a supervisor in Iraq. A Portland native, Johnson graduated from Madison High School in 1984 and joined the Navy. He was based in San Diego from 1986-90, Martin said. In December 2003, Martin said, her brother went to Iraq to work for KBR with Halliburton, taking a leave of absence from Columbia Distributing, where he had worked for nearly three years. A Mass will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in St.
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