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Industry News
Decking Industry News
Decking market good to nGrain
Plastics News - Feb 15, 2011
Marrying the look of wood with low maintenance has been the goal of Americhem Inc.’s nGrain simulated wood-grain effects for 15 years...
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Demand is driving innovation
Plastics News - Feb 15, 2011
Companies that make composite and cellular PVC decking remain the one bright spot in the building and construction market. Many of them have grown at a high-double-digit pace during the past three years in spite of the housing downturn —- or perhaps helped by it to some degree, as homeowners turned to remodeling projects.
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Fence Contractors in the News
SA timber to rebuild fences
The Gympie Times - Feb 18, 2011
"Many of the farmers have been busy rebuilding their external fences and this material will help with their internal farm fencing. "This has been a big team effort between Peter (Roberts) and his connections and us and Rotary here
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Local Government Issues
Santa Rosa offers $10000 to turn graffiti-marred fences into murals
Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Feb 17, 2011
Two fences chronically marred by graffiti in Santa Rosa's South Park neighborhood will become a canvas for artists. Santa Rosa's police department graffiti abatement program and redevelopment agency are asking artists to submit their...
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District to fence off CNR wharf to divers
Kelowna Capital News - Feb 17, 2011
While repairs will be made to the aging CNR wharf, West Kelowna council has decided moving the Gellatly diving platform to another location would not make the popular swimming area any safer....
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Suicide-prevention fence finished on Aurora Bridge
Seattle Post Intelligencer e - Feb 17, 2011
Crews have finished installing two rows of 8-foot, 9-inch tall fencing along the Aurora Avenue Bridge in Seattle, the state Department of Transportation said Tuesday....
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Community Issues
Flagstaff Trailheads: Split-rail fence a Flagstaff icon
Arizona Daily Sun - Feb 22, 2011
Just before the resignation of Richard Nixon, I made my first of many vacation trips into the western part of our country. I left St Louis on a Friday night after work and drove Interstate 40 toward Texas....
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Despite potential cost, some say Ski Bowl fence must go
Glens Falls Post-Star - Feb 21, 2011
JOHNSBURG -- It appears a chain-link fence at the Johnsburg Ski Bowl park that some residents and officials describe as an eyesore could come down, even though it was funded with federal dollars...
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Fence making progress
Daily Iberian - Feb 17, 2011
The fencing project in front of the Shadows-on-the-Teche is under way and is expected to offer the New Iberia landmark the look it once had 150 years ago....
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Spy-proof fences to stop Cup secrets slipping out
Kelowna Capital News - Feb 17, 2011
Spy-proof fences are to be erected at Taranaki's two Rugby World Cup 2011 practice venues in September to prevent team training secrets getting out before the big games...
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Broken fence, broken lives
Independent Online - Feb 19, 2011
The fencing protecting the communities has been removed… on a regular basis. The community has not pro-actively done anything about this, nor has the authority repaired or maintained this fencing over a number of years. “The parents or guardians...
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Fences and Volunteers
Volunteers Wildlife Fence
AboutMyArea - Feb 17, 2011
The fencing project in front of the Shadows-on-the-Teche is under way and is expected to offer the New Iberia landmark the look it once had 150 years ago....
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Bannock County Deer Fence Project Receives Donaiton
KPVI-TV - Feb 17, 2011
Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance has pledged more than $5000 to help with the construction of a deer fence going up in the Pocatello area. The Idaho company made the donation to the Idaho Fish and Game, and has pledged to match other individual donations...
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Pool Safety
Pooled rules to save lives
Cumberland Courier Newspapers - Feb 22, 2011
TWITH four young children running around, the thought of building a swimming pool without a secure fence never crossed Steve Hill’s mind...
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Fencing and Railroads
Long-Delayed Repairs on UWS Subway Fence To Start This Week
DNAinfo - Feb 15, 2011
A year and a half after a taxi tore a hole in the West 72nd Street subway station fence, repairs are set to begin. Work is set to begin this week on repairing the long-broken fence at the West 72nd Street subway station..
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Fencing and Airports
Fence that has grounded 400 flights to Highland airport
Scotsman - Feb 18, 2011
THOUSANDS of visitors are being turned away each year and much-needed business lost because of a long-standing, bitter dispute over a small "symbolic protest fence" at a Highland airport, it has been claimed....
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Fences and Neighbors
USA Mexico Border Fence
International
Bulgaria Scraps Turkey Border Fence Plans
Novinite.com - Feb 21, 2011
Bulgaria has given up on controversial plans to restore the fence along the Bulgarian-Turkish border, which existed in the Cold War period, as a measure against the spread of food-and-mouth disease (FMD)....
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Weird News
Drunk drivers allegedly steal Zamboni
Canoe.ca - Feb 17, 2011
CALGARY — Their car stuck in the slush, two apparently drunk men allegedly committed the most Canadian of crimes — they tried to steal a Zamboni...
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