Month: July 2012

(July 18, 2012) -- On Tuesday night, the Syracuse Town Council passed a resolution on a tax abatement request from Patrick Industries, reports Stacey Page Online. Patrick recently purchased local company AIA, and plans to expand its operations into the former Liberty Homes building, which will bring 65 new jobs to the area.

(July 18, 2012) -- The family of 43-year-old Valerie Sifsof, of Anchorage, continues to search for her more than 10 days after she walked away from the Granite Creek Campground, located halfway between Anchorage and Seward, reports the Anchorage Daily News.

(July 18, 2012) -- A Mackinaw City, Mich. campground owner has a dream. Vince Rogala, of Mackinaw Mill Creek Camping, would like to see the Mackinac Bridge outfitted with a computerized LED lighting system.

(July 18, 2012) -- The San Jose Mercury News reports that 51-year-old Patricia Garske, of Soquel, was driving a 1984 Toyota motorhome. A Planada resident was driving a 2002 Dodge Dakota and allowed her pickup to drift onto the right shoulder. The pick-up driver over-corrected, lost control and went into opposing traffic.

(July 18, 2012) -- After being arrested at the Lagoon RV Park & Campground in Farmington, a man, who is a suspect in numerous thefts throughout Northern Utah, remained at large Tuesday after escaping from police custody, reports StandardNet.

(July 18, 2012) -- “We asked our marketing and advertising people to come up with a unique concept to sell motorhomes in a pretty rough economy, and by golly they did just that. It was a great promotion,” said Rick Scholl, co-owner of Rocky Mountain RV and Marine in Albuquerque.

(July 18, 2012) -- The Good Sam Club and its members opened their hearts and their wallets for a number of worthy causes at the June 21-24 Good Sam Rally at Louisville's Kentucky Exposition Center. The collective outpouring of generosity resulted in nearly $10,000 from Good Sam members and $33,000 from the Good Sam Club itself.

(July 18, 2012) -- Effective immediately, Country Jam USA, being held July 19-21 in Eau Claire, is implementing a burning ban effective in all campgrounds and parking lots to comply with the town of Union fire ban, reports the Leader-Telegram.

(July 18, 2012) -- 2012 is off to a hot start for Bull Shoals-White River State Park, which has seen a 70 percent increase in campers from this time in 2011, a down year because of flooding, reports KY3.

(July 18, 2012) --  Some RVs will have multiple holding tanks and what is placed in the tanks needs to be vented for a number of reasons. If there is any pressure in a tank and a person opened a blade on a toilet, that could be a very unpleasant experience - therefore venting prevents any surprises, Pelchat noted. "Many RVs have original equipment caps that promote a positive pressure in the stack and therefore push out odors inside the coach," he said.