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 FenceWeek Video - 01/29/08
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Interview with Paul Harrison Part II
Paul Harrison, president of Merchants Metals sits down with Fenceweek and discusses varies issues affecting the industry. This is part II, where Paul discusses fence retail showrooms and expanding offering to outside living spaces .
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Industry News
Optellios Brings Perimeter Intrusion Detection to the Lenel OnGuard User Community
Press release, PA - Jan 29 2008
LANGHORNE, PA: January 29, 2008 – Optellios, Inc., announced today that it has received Lenel factory certification for the integration of its FiberPatrol intrusion detection systems with the OnGuard security platform by Lenel. Optellios is the first member of the Lenel OpenAccess Alliance Program to receive such certification for a perimeter sensor system...
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Decking Industry News
Trex Company Appoints F. Timothy Reese Vice President, Operations
Business Wire (press release), CA - Jan 29 2008
WINCHESTER, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trex Company, Inc. (NYSE: TWP), manufacturer of Trex® decking, railing, fencing and trim, today announced the appointment of F. Timothy Reese to the newly created position of vice president, operations, effective February 5, 2008. Mr. Reese will be responsible for manufacturing, engineering and logistics.,..
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Security Gates in the News
Pressure on planners to block estates behind gates
Daily Mail, UK - Jan 27, 2008
The spread of fortress-like gated developments for wealthier homebuyers has been curbed following pressure from ministers. A number of councils have refused permission for the walls, fences and locked gates which protect residents from outsiders...
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Fence Contractors in the News
Jury finds in favor of company in drowning
Youngstown Vindicator, OH - Jan 23 2008
WARREN — It took less than two hours for a Trumbull County Common Pleas Court jury to find in favor of a fence company in a lawsuit brought by the mother a 5-year-old boy who drowned in his neighbor’s swimming pool...
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Decks & fences are their thing
TheTimes, OR - Jan 25 2008
Romi Botez of Tualatin’s American Classic Decks & Fences Inc. and Reese Anderson of Tigard’s Northwest Fence & Deck, February is a month for shows, expos and new beginnings...
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Local Government Issues
Recommendation: Require permit to build fence
Paris News, TX - Jan 23 2008
A code enforcement task force will recommend to the Paris City Council that residential fences be added to the list of things that a building permit is required for, but is divided on whether to ban additional front-yard fences in the city.
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Good fences not helping downtown, expert says
Stockton Record, CA - Jan 29 2008
STOCKTON - Downtown Stockton has so many fences it looks as if the Gestapo has imposed a lockdown, a tourism expert said. "Stockton has a beautiful downtown, but everybody is surrounding everything with 8-foot-tall wrought-iron fences," said Roger Brooks, a consultant paid by government and business interests to develop a brand for the city and to tell it how to better market itself...
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Fences and Animals
Farmer calls for high country dogproof fences
ABC Online, Australia - Jan 29 2008
An East Gippsland farmer is calling on the Victorian Government to put dog-proof fences around state and national parks.
The Government is considering a submission to protect Victorian dingoes. Sharon Firebrace, a farmer from Benambra, says dingoes are breeding with domestic dogs and are taking a heavy toll on stock...
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Higher fence in the works at game preserve
The Express Times, PA - Jan 24 2008
The elk herd at Trexler Game Preserve will get a higher fence meant to keep out company under a proposal that was expected to gain Lehigh County Commissioners' approval Wednesday night. Specifically unwanted are white-tailed deer that can transmit the fatal chronic-wasting disease to elk at the county-owned preserve...
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Fresh obstacle as Aberdare fence project comes to an end
Daily Nation, Kenya - Jan 23 2008
The drums are silent. For decades, drumbeats were a common feature on the edges of the Aberdare Forest, especially at night. Their purpose was to scare away elephants and other wild animals from straying into farms and destroying crops...
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Community Issues
Houston County Fence Project
WTVY, AL - Jan 27 2008
Recent crime in the area is prompting the erection of a fence in downtown Dothan. The Houston County Commission is set to approve the construction at Monday’s County Administration meeting to protect both county employees and residents visiting the administration building...
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Fence to keep out primary school vandals
This Is Lancashire, UK - Jan 27 2008
A PRIMARY school has been given permission to put up fences around its playground. Governors of Egerton Primary School, in Cox Green Road, Egerton, hope the fence will improve security for pupils and keep out vandals...
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Church fights to keep fence
Bromsgrove Standard, UK - Jan 23 2008
CHURCH leaders in Rednal are battling to keep a fence protecting the grave of a Catholic priest who could be made a saint. Planning bosses at Birmingham ...
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FENCE REPAIRS WILL EASE YOB MISERY
Leicester Mercury, UK - Jan 23, 2008
The problems started when joyriders smashed through the 73-year-old's front fence in October, leaving a gaping hole which made it easy for yobs to escape ...
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USA Mexico Border Fence
Lawyers warned to use 'common sense' in border fence suits
Houston Chronicle, TX - Jan 25 2008
BROWNSVILLE — Twelve lawsuits against landowners refusing federal access for survey work for a border fence — the first to be aired in a court hearing — landed in front of a judge Friday who warned lawyers they were not there to debate the merits of the fence...
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Border fence with Mexico waste some say
abc13.com, TX - Jan 27 2008
BROWNSVILLE, TX (KTRK) -- A dozen landowners in Brownsville could find out next week if the federal government will get access to their property to build a border fence.....
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Homeland Security officials host 'Open House,' unveil border fences
Del Rio Live!, TX - Jan 27 2008
A small crowd of about 20 Del Rioans and area residents showed up, Thursday afternoon (Jan. 24), to join at least that many federal employees and contractors who came to the Del Rio Civic Center to display and discuss plans for border fencing...
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Fences and Neighbors
Neighbors find prison fence offensive
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - Jan 27 2008
The state insists that a fence it seeks to build around the women's prison in Shakopee will look more like a gated community than a fortress.....
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Stolen Fences
Bastrop gatekeepers never noticed the missing fence?
Austin American-Statesman, TX - Jan 27 2008
Hernandez was accused of having inmates take down the fence at the county jail and install it at his house. He’s also accused of using county materials and inmates to build barbecue pits he then sold for profit....
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Invisible Fence
Invisible fences: Pros and cons
Pioneer Press Online, IL - Jan 24, 2008
The dog, a Labrador retriever mix James and Gina Warda adopted, was supposed to be protected by the hidden electric fence the Wardas had installed around their property in Gurnee. But the collar, which sends a small jolt of electricity to the dog's neck when she tries to cross over the buried fence cable, was somehow being activated when Hunnie was nowhere near that line...
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Fences and History
Fenced in - or out
BBC, UK - Jan 27, 2008
Do good walls make good neighbours? The Victorians thought so, but those on either side of barriers between Gaza and Israel, and the US and Mexico, may differ...
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Weird News
Classified Ads
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