Month: April 2013

(April 19, 2013) -- In Florida, the discussion of a development agreement for the Briarwood RV Park will have to wait another couple of weeks after the Largo City Commission moved to postpone the public hearing on the issue, reports Patch.com.

(April 19, 2013) -- Today, Cummins Inc. broke ground on a new plant and office building for the Company's Cummins Marktheidenfeld (CMHF). The new facility will house a state-of-the art plant where Cummins Emission Solutions will design and manufacture selective catalytic reduction (SCR) dosing systems.

(April 8, 2013) -- The new Oasis Zephyr HW heating system from International Thermal Research (ITR) is a 12-volt DC diesel/bio-diesel-fueled, high-efficiency, continuous on-demand hot water, multi-zone space heating furnace designed specifically to meet the needs of smaller RVs and the emerging Class B/C market. 

(April 19, 2013) -- The RV/MH Hall of Fame in Elkhart, Ind., has announced that RV industry pioneer Kirwan Elmers will be inducted as a member of the class of 2013. Elmers has been a longtime family and commercial member of Family Motor Coach Association. He served as a member of FMCA’s Commercial Council for many years, including as president from 1990 to 1999.

(April 19, 2013) -- Google Panda is a change to Google’s search results algorithm that was first released February 2011. A few days ago, Google released an update of this algorithm with the specific intent of penalizing sites with low quality and duplicate content, and conversely, return higher-quality sites to the top of search results.

(April 19, 2013) -- Drew Industries Incorporated will release its first quarter 2013 financial results before the market opens on Friday, May 3. Drew will also host a conference call on Friday, May 3 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss its results and other business matters.

(April 19, 2013) -- It takes less than one-tenth of one percent (one-fourteenth to be exact) of the federal budget to operate America's 59 national parks every year. And, each year, the National Park Service's slice of the federal pie gets smaller and smaller, a blogger at Gimby.org noted today.

(April 19, 2013) -- Canada's headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2 percent in March 2013, which was slightly slower than forecasts for a 0.3 percent rise. Wholesale trade was flat in Feb. 2013, was weaker than market forecasts for a 0.3 percent gain, and followed a 0.5 percent rise in January.

(April 19, 2013) -- With members of the Phillips Common Council in Wisconsin voting to select a bidder to put in restroom facilities and electrical work, the campground project on the old city beach off County Road H moved one step closer to completion, reports Price County Daily.

(April 19, 2013) -- On Tuesday, Goshen Plan Commission members approved a major change to an ordinance for the area which will allow outside storage between the west wall of the current Keystone RV building in Goshen, Ind., and the west property line, reports Goshen News.