| SAISD workers accused of stealing copper
Two former San Antonio Independent School District employees have been accused of stealing copper. "We have presented charges to the DA for prosecution of two former employees for stealing copper tubing from several of our schools," SAISD spokeswoman Carmen Vázquez-González said. Authorities have not charged the two men, so their names are not available. On Wednesday, copper was selling for about $3 per pound. Vázquez-González says the pair took up to $10,000 worth of copper from air conditioning units from portable buildings and other school district facilities. "We're looking at, right now, at least $10,000 in aggregate charges," she said. .
WEEK IN REVIEW
I knew I wouldn't get the information I wanted to just from reading a book," said Nancy Goward, 42, from Cape Cod, Mass. "It's beautiful, but it's really different."
These kinds of small hotels were built for middle-class customers because wealthy people always went to Palm Beach, Timm said. Their rounded exteriors are reminiscent of rounded automobiles and oceanliners.
They are made of concrete, while porous limestone was used as a decorative element, Timm said. The limestone is a native South Florida coral rock.
The historic district extends from Sixth Street to 23rd Street, but the group tours usually stay in the teen blocks and can take up to two hours. The individual tour is designed to take less than an hour.
"The idea is that it (the tour) goes in a circle," said Jeff Donnelly, part-time professor of American Studies at the University of Miami and director of the tour school that trains the guides.
PSS purchases six new school buses
The Public School System has purchased six units of 66-passenger school buses from CNMI's Triple J Motors worth up to $457,000. According to federal programs advisor Tim Thornburgh, the six new buses are replacements for buses that have been in the fleet for over 10 years. The new buses were turned over to PSS yesterday morning at the American Memorial Park in the presence of PSS and Board of Education officials led by Education Commissioner David Borja, as well as PSS bus drivers.PSS has a total school bus fleet of 19 buses with 12 regular buses for Saipan and two small buses or vans with wheelchair access for special education students. "The buses transport 1,700 students from home to school and back home everyday," Thornburgh said. The five other buses or vans in the PSS fleet provide transportation services to the students on Tinian and Rota.
Tesoro, Seawater AC, Hoku Scientific and Wall Street
Tesoro, owner of the larger of Hawaii's two refineries, says gasoline price margins have shrunk so it will make less gasoline. Tesoro says its Kapolei refinery will be dialed back to as little as 74% capacity. Here's an alternative to oil for downtown office buildings. Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning has lined up more than 10 million dollars in equity financing. U.S. and Swedish investors are chipping in for a zero emissions seawater air conditioning plant. Downtown building owners could save a fifth of their air conditioning costs by using seawater instead of a system-based on freon. Hoku Scientific has installed two solar power systems on neighbor islands. Its newest turnkey photovoltaic systems are at the Lihue and Kona operations of Paradise Beverages. The company uses a lot of power to refrigerate its warehouses, since it's the Hawaii distributor of Coors, Corona, Miller and Heineken.
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