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HI Planners approve final draft of regulations
HOLIDAY ISLAND - After several meetings of discussions and rewrites, the Holiday Island Planning Commission (HIPC) approved its final draft revisions to its Regulations for Construction and Residential Habitation at its Sept. 1 meeting.The revisions also contain revised and new attachments. The commission periodically passes resolutions to change or add regulations under its jurisdiction in addition to the Declaration of Reservations that already govern building and property use in the various units in Holiday Island.In May 2001, the commission revised its earlier draft. It revised it again in May 2004. This latest revision includes changes made or resolutions passed in the last two years.A number of changes to the draft include more specific or restricted definitions of construction rules.
Signal setting up workers' housing
PASCAGOULA - Signal International is using modular trailers to create a community living arrangement for the nearly 300 workers it will be importing from India. The project to prepare a site on the company grounds at Bayou Casotte for living quarters began about a month ago. Workers cleared and leveled a field that had been used to store large pieces of offshore oil rigs the company builds and repairs, then laid sewer, water and gas lines for the housing. John Sanders, corporate program manager, said site prep would continue until the trailers arrive late next month or November, which is when the employees are slated to arrive. The decision to bring in employees from outside the United States, found with the assistance of recruiters and an employee brokerage agency in India, was made three months ago, Sanders said.
Promotions, additions and recognitions
Re/Max Point East announced its newest associates — Judy Winstead, Daphnne Wooten, Jennifer Woods, David Recker and Ronnie Baker. Winstead, a Broker/Realtor, graduated from JY Monk Real Estate School. She worked for Smithson Inc. in commercial construction for more than 25 years before pursuing a career in real estate. She is a member of the Rocky Mount Area Association of Realtors, the N.C. Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors. Wooten, a Broker/Realtor, graduated from JY Monk Real Estate School. She and her husband, Mike, are owners and operators of Mike's Homes Inc., a modular and manufactured home dealership in Rocky Mount. She has an extensive background in the housing, mortgage lending and insurance industries.
Walter Reed official, contractor charged with bribery
GREENBELT, Md. A Virginia man who works at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been indicted, along with a contractor, in a bribery scheme involving contracts for work at the Washington military medical center. Forty-five-year-old Kevin Roach of Fredericksburg is accused of accepting thousand of dollars in cash and the use of a pickup truck from contractors in return for steering work to the contractors. Roach and 40-year-old Louis Pisani were charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday in federal court in Maryland. The indictment charges the men with conspiracy and obstruction of justice. According to the indictment, Roach accepted payments from Pisani and another contractor -- typically ten percent of the value of the contract. Copyright 2006 Associated Press.
Church bought single mom of two a new home
After Hurricane Rita blitzed her Texas home a year ago, a single mom's faith in God was strengthened when the First Baptist Church in Bermuda bought her a new home on the same parcel of land.
While the country was still gaping at Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, falling trees blown about by category three Rita's fierce winds sweeping in from the Gulf of Mexico and causing $10 billion in damage in the Houston area were smashing Belinda (B) Lopez's Mauriceville house and furniture.
Stunned, she remembers thinking: "How am I going to afford to buy a new house?"
She didn't know how much the insurance was going to give back to purchase a new home for her and sons Austin, 11, and Dallas, 10.
"Being a single mom with two kids how do you do this?" she agonized.
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