| Discarding holidays boxes outside could lead to thieves coming inside ...
Home security expert Dan Surmitis advises homeowners to recycle their cardboard boxes. Most cities have cardboard recycling drop-off areas.
One place to find out is:
http://www.cuyahogaswd.org/
Surmitis, the founder of North Coast Security, has these tips:
Thieves look for the easiest targets. Empty, dark houses, secluded access points behind bushes and other obstructions.
Don?t make it any easier for them. The more you increase their risk, the more likely they will move somewhere else.
Close and lock all doors, windows, and storage sheds. Do not run extension cords through windows for outdoor holiday decorations. Not only does it leave an opening unsecured, it's a fire hazard.
Install and maintain outdoor motion sensor lights.Check them frequently to be sure they work.
Madeleine McCann And Shannon Matthews: And Jamie Bulger
In his latest blog, Mr McCann writes: "We did hear that the French have officially ruled out the reported sighting of Madeleine in Montpellier." We watch the McCanns. And we scrutinise their every word. They now even report on the case. THE OBSERVER: “'James would be 18 now - the pain of losing him will never go away' Fifteen years ago, the murder of toddler James Bulger by two young boys horrified Britain and inflicted deep wounds on their home city of Liverpool. In this moving interview, James's mother Denise Fergus tells Elizabeth Day that the passing years have not diminished the pain over the loss of her son and her anger towards his killers, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. In the aftermath of the trial in November 1993, the Daily Star carried pictures of Venables and Thompson underneath the headline 'How do you feel now you little bastards?' Denise Fergus still cannot bring herself to walk near the Walton railway line… It has been 15 years since the murder of her son James Bulger on this stretch of track; 15 years since he was beaten to death by two killers who were themselves children.
A case of collect-a-con?
From a distance Shadrack Monkhe bears an uncanny resemblance to the Collect-a-Can man seen in the recycling organisation's advertisements. At the edge of a road in Vanderbijlpark, he pushes a wheelbarrow heaped to capacity with littered beverage containers. Even the setting is appropriate. Behind him sprawls the steel mill of ArcelorMittal, the main shareholder of Collect-a-Can, which makes the rolls of steel that become cans. Next door is the can factory of Nampak, Collect-a-Can's other owner. And around the corner is a purchasing depot of Collect-a-Can itself. But Monkhe walks past a flattened Coke can to pull two plastic bottles out of the long grass. He has not picked up a single steel can today, though he has seen many. A scrap dealer will pay him R1,80 per kilogram for his plastic bottles.
Auburn positioned for 'renaissance'
We're on the cusp of a huge amount of development and improvement in the city," City Manager Bob Richardson told the overflow crowd at the winter Power Breakfast, hosted by the city of Auburn and the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. “You'll continually see projects the next several years," he said. Those projects will include the restoration of the façade of the Old State Theater on Lincoln Way in May, the development of the “central square" and realignment of the Lincoln Way/High Street intersection this fall, and dozens of street improvements linking Old Town and Downtown. Together, these improvements are part of the Streetscape project envisioned by city, business and community leaders, said Councilmember Bridget Powers.
Schoolgirl, 16, is found hanged in Bridgend
They need to talk to people like their family, not spend all their time on computers or watching television. I feel so sad for her and her family." Although inquests are yet to be held on most of the hanging victims, police confirmed that Miss Parry, like the 16 others aged 15 to 27, appeared to have taken her own life. .
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