| Columnist Jill Leach: Preserving Tustin's treasure, Old Town
Invitations are in the mail for the Tustin Preservation Conservancy's 6 p.m. April 30 Awards Dinner at Quinn's Old Town Grill, 405 El Camino Real. Winners of the conservancy's Preservation/Restoration, Neighborhood Beautification, Sensitive Addition and New Building awards will be presented. Cost of the dinner is $30. Visit www.preservetustin.org, or call Linda Jennings at 714-731-2380. Tustin gets some new 'principals' Local business executives and community leaders served as "Principals for a Day" in schools throughout the Tustin Unified School District March 20 as part of the 18th annual Principal for a Day program sponsored by the California Educational Partnership Consortium. Each participant shared the role of school principal and performed various daily duties, such as visiting classrooms, meeting with students and teachers, attending staff meetings, reviewing budgets and participating in other activities.
Former Director of the Austin Convention Center accused of ...
Robert Hodge, former Director of the Austin Convention Center, allegedly misused funds in a facility catering account that's intended for buying and fixing kitchen equipment, as well as promoting catering services, according to the local newspaper Austin-American Statesman. However, Toby Futrell, Austin City Manager, said that funds may not have been inappropriately used because the center's contract with its caterer, Aramark Sports and Entertainment, allows for unused funds to be spent on other convention center expenses.
According to a search warrant affidavit, more than $600,000 in expenditures, which appear to be unrelated to catering or other expenses allowed by a contract with Aramark, is in question. Among the misreported funds are:
$140,000 in catered food for conference attendees at the World Congress on Information Technology.
100 Jobs to Go From Michelin Canada Plant
Michelin will cut 100 jobs from its Granton facility in Nova Scotia, Canada later this year in a move the company says is necessary to keep it competitive in the marketplace. According to Michelin, about 70 per cent of those losing their jobs will be offered early retirement, with the remaining cuts coming through the axing of contract positions.
The Granton plant, which produces passenger car and light truck tyres, as well as rubber compound for other tyre lines, currently employs some 1400 staff, half of whom are, Michelin claim, eligible to retire within the next five years. Company manager of corporate communications Sheri Somerville, speaking to Canadian broadcaster CBC, claimed Michelin are not laying anyone off and we are not forcing anyone to retire, and added that the cuts and retirements will give younger workers at the plant increased opportunities to advance.
Federal Compensation Is More Than Just Salary: Check out the ...
In just a few minutes, the comments below this one will be filled with people talking about how totally shafted they are in the government, and how unfair it is that they are paid such a miniscule amount of money in their federal jobs (which they voluntarily took of course). I guess all of those extra pay and benefits outlined in the Congressional report will just never be enough... .
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