Month: March 2013

(March 22, 2013) -- Carmanah Technologies' annual Canadian Booking Program sales campaign reported sales of more than $875,000 CAD of the Go Power! product line for the RV market. This represents a 23 percent performance increase from the 2012 program.

(March 22, 2013) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard signed legislation yesterday that creates the first new state park in South Dakota since 1972.

(March 21, 2013) -- At its press conference at the Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., Cummins announced its 2013 engine lineup will offer two percent better fuel economy than its 2012 engines, reports the Commercial Carrier Journal.

(March 21, 2013) -- When a customer gives a merchant a rewards card, the merchant’s rate for accepting that card increases. In so called “tiered rates” the transaction falls to the mid-qualified rate, which is enunciated on the credit card statement. In plain English, business owners are paying the freight for issuing bank’s rewards and, of course, you don’t know which card you accept is a "rewards card." Horrible isn’t it?

(March 21, 2013) -- In April, American RV will ship the Class B motorhome to the STEP Seminary located at Fort Mercredi, Haiti. A medical team of two local doctors and two nurses will use the mobile clinic to serve more than 23,000 people who are in desperate need of life-saving medical care, said Neff.

(March 21, 2013) -- Most people don't realize that YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world. "Consumers are no longer using Google as their only source for information. We're now hearing the phrase 'YouTube it' being used in terms of looking something up," said Hassan. 

(March 21, 2013) -- Windy Nation's 100-watt solar panels use high efficiency German made Bosch solar cells producing 5.56 amps of current at maximum power point.  Each panel is 40-by-26-by-1.5 inches in size and weighs 18 pounds.

(March 21, 2013) -- Weeks after the Nebraska Tax Equalization and Review Commission told them it was wrong to give tax-exempt status to a Minden campground, members of the Kearney County Board of Supervisors did so anyway, reports the Hastings Tribune.

(March 21, 2013) -- Grant County Fair officials will offer campers a chance at a designated camping spot during fair week, but it will cost a little more, says the Columbia Basin Herald.

(March 21, 2013) -- The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) will be offering a free night of camping at 54 campgrounds within Ohio State Parks on Thursday, April 18, the ODNR announced today.