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All together, she was able to use “every single thing” the homeowners already owned, adding new rugs, a few new furniture pieces and all new draperies and fabrics to give the home a fresh, new color palette. All the brick used on the home’s exterior – including the fireplace on a homey outdoor covered porch – was shipped in. “It’s antique, and it was from an old tobacco warehouse or factory in South Carolina,” Rhea says. “It’s on the exterior chimney and on the courtyard and driveway.”

“We are appealing to everyone involved to go to the Garda website and take the Construction Site Checklist Challenge. In particular, I would appeal for everyone to mark their tools and equipment in some way,” he said.

Cortes insisted that Dent’s statement that no experts want a 2,000-mile- long concrete barrier at the US-Mexico border is “demonstrably false.”

Mission: Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.

Get to that glass of sauvignon blanc faster with this electric wine bottle opener. All you have to do is place the cordless opener on top of the bottle and press a button — the cork will be removed in seconds. The charger can open up to 30 bottles on one charge (for really big dinner parties), and comes with a charging base and foil cutter.

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg is hoping to outflank an old adversary in a bid to expand homeless shelter capacity—NIMBYs.

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EuroGuard® Combi SR1 panels are 3000mm wide with 200 x 45mm mesh, 5mm wires with 2 – 4 reinforcing folds according to height.

For more serious sound control, look for professional acoustic panels. They’re widely available, although many homeowners might object to the commercial look of some products. One of Kinetics’ favorite tricks is to hide professional-grade acoustic panels behind home photos printed on canvas, Johnson said.

Wish List: Women and children’s shelter: bedroom linens, sheet sets ( twin/full/queen), blanket, comforter, pillows; bathroom linens — bath mats, towels, hand cloths and wash cloths; new carpeting in office, sitting room and hallway; new dressers; MANNA Feeding Program: commercial kitchen-grade food warmer. Children’s programming: brass instruments, guitars, keyboards

This past year was a big one when it came to lawsuits against local law enforcement over officer-involved shootings. The two most visible cases involved young men experiencing mental health crises who were shot and killed in 2017; the other two bore similarities as well, in that both victims were in their vehicles when they died.

It’s difficult to impart the depth of the disastrous firestorm, since the ramifications continue to surface as evacuees return to what is left of the scorched region. But a starting point is the loss of life attributed to the fire.