Mandatory Fall Cleanup
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By LINDA SPICE  One man's collectibles became his neighbors' nuisance before city officials sought relief through the courts and obtained an order that allowed a mandatory cleanup Thursday of the bicycles, rusty pails and even church windows that covered a weed-infested yard on S. 98th St.
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AKRON, Ohio -- We tune up our cars, our furnaces, our lawn mowers. Maybe it's time we tuned up the safety conditions of our homes.
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BIG RAPIDS, Mich. - Workers cleaning out the gutters at an apartment complex found more than just leaves and sticks...
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I worked for a time in the student government building. I was a shitty custodian. Every week I waxed and buffed the floors. I hated it and I hated it worse during the Winter. I could put a shine on it so glossy that you could look up women's skirts from the floor on a busy day; If you were at the right angle. Problem was, the minute there was snow outside, people would track mud and water in and grind it into my beautiful buffed floor. Then some asshole from student government would bitch about how fucked the floor looked. I couldn't mop a floor to save my ass but I could sure put a shine on the tile in the entrance. Every Saturday, I would mop the place down and then strip the old wax off with a buffer and a plastic scouring pad that went on the bottom. I knew a midget on campus and for a few bucks and a six pack, I could get him to sit on the buffer while I stripped and buffed the place. He would drink beer and read The Iliad; go figure.
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If you&#39;re bent on hanging mistletoe, take heed: US safety experts warn that serious injuries linked to falls rise during the holiday season.
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Science & environment: Ban and taxes to curb blot on landscape that threatens health and causes floods
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By Marni Pyke Daily Herald Staff Writer  Dirt floors, leaky roofs, improper ventilation.  It's the work environment Jerry Potempa is used to.  But the maintenance manager at the DuPage County Forest Preserve District is hopeful changes are coming.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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Now that summer break is over and the little monsters -- er, darlings -- are back where they ought to be, make sure you keep an eye on their training for fall sports. The last thing you want is to have them injured and lounging on the couch where they have spent the past three months hollering for...
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By Erik Robinson and Jose Paul Corona, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep. 8--Just because Southwest Washington is due for a little rain this weekend, don't expect area firefighters to breathe easy.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Calli Schmidt of NAHB, +1-202-266-8132, cschmidt@nahb.com   WASHINGTON, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S.
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By Mike Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb.
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ATLANTA Dec 9, 2004 - You better watch out: Decking the halls for Christmas brings a sharp increase in injuries from falling off roofs, ladders and living room sofas.
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By David Templeton, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Feb. 19--At the Liberty Tire Recycling facility in Braddock, shredded  pieces of tires accumulate before being frozen with liquid nitrogen and  smashed into even smaller pieces.
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Trying to avoid vertigo, falls and other hazards of lost equilibrium.
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By Mary Macdonald, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Jun. 2--Used to be fixing the sewers, adding sidewalks and getting the  trash picked up on time was enough.    Now cities feel they need to help save the planet.
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.