Month: May 2012

(May 17, 2012) -- Cummins Inc. will host a job fair with WorkOne Southeast on Monday, May 21 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence in Columbus, reports The Republic.

(May 17, 2012) -- The Westerly Sun reports that Planning Board members deadlocked Tuesday on a motion to issue a favorable recommendation for the proposed Ocean State RV Resort in Westerly.

(May 17, 2012) -- The U.S. Senate today joined the Governors of Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington and 246 Mayors in 45 States and Washington D.C. in declaring this Saturday, May 19, National Kids to Parks Day. Tens of thousands of children will head to park events across the United States for a day many are calling the first national 'play in.'

(May 17, 2012) -- KSBY reports that a Nipomo couple is grieving the loss of their dog Comet after he was killed by another dog at the Morro Dunes RV Park in Morro Bay on Mother's Day.

(May 17, 2012) -- The Sun-Sentinel reports that seven-year-old Samson De Jesus, the little boy who survived his father's rampage at a Deerfield Beach RV park three months ago, told investigators that his dad tried to kill him so he wouldn't be eaten by the SWAT team.

(May 17, 2012) -- Calhoun Campground was closed in 2011 when Beaverton was faced with tough budget decisions. But the city and long-time Calhoun campers Dick and Donna VanWieren reached an agreement; keep the property in the city's hands but make volunteers responsible for expenses, reports the Gladwin County Record.

(May 17, 2012) -- Starting June 29, the Ontario Parkbus Initiative will be running buses between Toronto and popular campgrounds, canoe access points and backpacking trailheads in the province for those who want to get outdoors but don't have a car to be able to do so, reports insideTORONTO.com.

(May 17, 2012) -- The Parks and Waterways department of Kootenai County revealed Monday that the county is receiving nearly $700,000 in state grants to renovate aging public infrastructure. A $366,844 Recreational Vehicle grant to renovate the public RV dump station is included, reports the Coeur d'Alene Press.

(May 16, 2012) -- "Secret Millionaire is a one-hour alternative series that follows America’s most successful business people as they spend a week in the country’s poorest areas and ultimately gift deserving members of the community with hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money," ABC noted in a press release.

(May 16, 2012) -- Sensors were placed in key areas of the coach to measure internal temperatures in the living room, kitchen, bath, bedroom, outside utility center and outside pass-through storage compartments. The cold chamber’s temperature was then dropped to below 0 degrees. Throughout the 8-hour test, Infinity’s inside temperature of 72.21 degrees remained stable. No waterlines froze and holding tanks maintained an average temperature of 55.5 degrees.