Month: August 2013

(Aug. 9, 2013) -- A portable urinal for women has proved a sellout hit among hikers, road-trippers and outdoor campers, writes the Daily Mail.

(Aug. 9, 2013) -- According to Punchbowl, Aug. 10 is National S’mores Day. S'mores are a delicious treat made from three simple ingredients - graham crackers, toasted marshmallows, and melted chocolate bars.

(Aug. 9, 2013) -- ChargeAll’s wireless cell phone charging kiosk meets the demand of business owners who want a secure phone charging platform with robust advertising capabilities, states Maganis. The kiosk features five secure locking doors that are large enough to charge everything from iPads and Kindles to iPhones and Blackberrys.

(Aug. 9, 2013) -- Brandy Petersen was in the bedroom of the recreational vehicle she lives in at Country Life Mobile Home Park in rural Midway when she saw smoke Thursday afternoon, writes the Baxter Bulletin.

(Aug. 9, 2013) -- “We really focused on delivering a luxurious, functional toy hauler built on a platform that has not been done before by any of our competitors,” said Hauser. “Like all of our Grand Design products, we were tasked to engineer the Momentum to exceed industry standards, and we definitely set the bar high on this toy hauler.”

(Aug. 9, 2013) -- The north end of the tenters’ island at Surf n’ Stream Campground in Toms River is being remodeled into a bird sanctuary, and the campground is launching a “Name That Island" contest on its Facebook page, asking guests to help choose a name for the park.

(Aug. 9, 2013) -- The Port of St. Helens announced recently that it has opened the Bayport RV Park and Campground inside the Scappoose Bay Marine Park in Warren, reports the St. Helens Chronicle.

(Aug. 9, 2013) -- “I wanted to challenge our executive leadership team to volunteer to help with the very situation we’ve been working so hard to relieve,” said Epp. “So we flew to Calgary, where we were promptly picked up by a Samaritan’s Purse bus and coached on what was going to happen."

(Aug. 9, 2013) -- State fire officials are looking for the cause of a blaze that destroyed the business office at Heritage Hills Campground in Liberty early Tuesday morning, reports the Palladium-Item.

(Aug. 9, 2013) -- The Allegany County Sheriff’s Department said a camper at the fairgrounds in Cresaptown has died of carbon monoxide poisoning, writes The Tribune-Democrat.