Group honors veterans by repairing homes for free

Source: New Haven Register

HAMDEN — Frederick Joseph Miller, a World War II veteran, didn’t think he deserved the attention Saturday, but they gave it to him anyway. The ones who knew they knew better were a crew of volunteers working for the Conn ...
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Meadville North Street improvements scheduled for 2013

Source: GoErie.com

MEADVILLE -- Long-awaited improvements to a busy downtown artery are scheduled to begin next spring, minus one controversial component. Plans to extend North Street to the French Creek Parkway were scrapped in 2006. The pared-dow ...
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Two seniors dead in retirement home fire

Source: Cornwall Standard Freeholder

HAWKESBURY — A beloved "wonderful" senior couple, married more than 60 years, are being mourned after a deadly fire at a retirement home. Marie-Anne Bonin, 84, and Jean-Paul Bonin, 87, were caught inside their third-floor u ...
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Wallpaper That Blocks Wi-Fi

Source: Hacker News

Centre Technique du Papier Wallpaper developed in France may prevent people from snooping on your private computer network. Could this mean that you will never again hear a cellphone go off at a concert? French res ...
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Mandatory sprinklers in retirement homes: Jury

Source: Ottawa Sun

The deadly blaze at a Hawkesbury retirement home occurred the same day as an inquest jury recommended the province should make sprinkler systems mandatory in all such buildings. The Place Mont-Roc retirement home, built in the 1980s, ...
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No sprinklers in Ontario retirement home which caught fire, two dead

Source: The Huffington Post: Canada Edition

HAWKESBURY, Ont. - The president of Ontario's Association of Fire Chiefs is confirming there were no sprinklers in a Hawkesbury retirement home where an elderly couple died in a fire Friday night. Chief Kevin Foster says the deaths are "eve ...
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LeMons North Dallas Hooptie BS Inspections: Cordia vs. Granada Rivalry Heats Up

Source: Car and Driver

The teams are preparing for 24 straight hours of racing at hot-n-muggy Eagles Canyon Raceway, and the justices of the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court are brandishing their Cheatonium-239 detectors as part of the pre-race BS Ins ...
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Metal detector hobbyists find possible WWII remains

Source: Stars and Stripes

Boeblingen Police Detective Rainer Schaber, on April 5, 2012, inspects bone fragments found by U.S. metal detector enthusiasts at what is believed to be a World War II crash site near the town of Grafenau, Germany. GRAFENAU, Germany — It was an unusual r ...
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Silicon Valley's new diamond farm grows synthetic supermaterials

Source: The San Jose Mercury News

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