Month: April 2013

(April 26, 2013) -- Cummins Inc.'s Jamestown Engine Plant will sponsor its seventh annual 5K run/walk on Saturday, May 11, to benefit the Prendergast Library Literacy Center, writes the Evening Observer.

(April 26, 2013) -- The first estimate of first quarter annualized GDP growth of 2.5 percent represents a marked improvement from the 0.4 percent gain in the fourth quarter of 2013, though it compared to expectations of a stronger 3.0 percent increase, RBC Economics reported today. The main downward surprise was another sizable drop in government spending of 4.1 percent. 

(April 26, 2013) -- Upscale recreational vehicles are on display at the 15th Shanghai International Automobile Industry Exhibition, which started Wednesday and runs through April 29, reports CRIENGLISH.com.

(April 26, 2013) -- Although the Stagecoach festival in Indio, Calif., doesn't officially begin until this afternoon, there was plenty of entertainment going on in the RV campground on Thursday, reports The Desert Sun.

(April 26, 2013) -- Law enforcement with the Coconino National Forest are seeking a person of interest regarding the human-caused Fisher Fire which began on April 13 about four miles southeast of Flagstaff, Ariz. near Fisher Point and grew to approximately 35 acres.

(April 26, 2013) -- The Washington Post this week reported on what it calls one of the oddest spending habits in Washington.

(April 26, 2013) -- Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell joined National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis and students from Stonewall Middle School at Prince William Forest Park to celebrate National Park Week and highlight the importance of outdoor recreation and education, especially to young people. Jewell also held a stakeholder meeting to explore ways to leverage public-private partnerships at national parks to better connect youth and families to nature and outdoor recreation – one of the major goals of President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative – and to promote economic growth and support jobs in local communities.

(April 26, 2013) -- The Louisiana Record says a lawsuit accuses the State of Louisiana of failing to regularly maintain and inspect the bathroom area on the property, failing to timely inspect and repair the bathroom floor area, failing to warn of the danger and allowing a dangerous condition to exist after proper or constructive notice.

(April 25, 2013) -- GE Capital is cutting of lending to gun shops, Fox News reported. The company, a mainstay in wholesale RV lending, put recreation vehicle dealers through similar business situations when it cut off funding to dealerships in 2008.

(April 26, 2013) -- A bill to transfer ownership of Wildlife Prairie State Park to a not-for-profit organization was unanimously passed Thursday by the Illinois state Senate, reports the Peoria Journal Star.