TUIDA reports Lancaster Energy could be up and running by end of the year

by Ashley Biles
Associate Editor Thomaston Times

Lancaster Energy hopes to be up and running by the end of this year, the Thomaston-Upson Industrial Development Authority was told at their July meeting last week. The authority approved an amendment to the memorandum of understanding. They are looking at possibly garnering a bond from the TUIDA for up to $15 million, if alternative funding does not pan out.

The bio mass company has been a part of the community for the last two years, but ran into a few snags preventing them from opening in the old Thomaston Mills co-generation plant located off Edgewood Avenue. They use wood waste to manufacture electricity and will be producing around 16 and a half megawatts of electricity at the Thomaston plant. The company will employee around 17 people and is in the process of constructing the plant now with plans for it to open around the end of November or first of December.

Dan Rolling of Lancaster Energy stated the company has had a good experience working in Thomaston the past two years. They have been happy and pleased with the cooperation between their company and the TUIDA and have had no trouble there in finding suitable employees.

In other business, TUIDA Executive Director Kyle Fletcher told the board July has been a busy month for the office and prospect recruitment has picked up lately. Project Ski made an impromptu visit a few weeks ago and toured the Clearwater plant, however a lack of rail access determined that they were not interested in the building. Fletcher noted she will be resubmitting an application for the old Quad plant because she feels it may better suit the company?s needs.

She thanked board members Rusty Blackston, Steve Daniel and Chairman Billy Johnston for making the presentation to the company since she was out of town. Blackston told the rest of the board that during their visit the company made the comment that Thomaston was the only place of all the ones they had visited that day that seemed to be more community oriented and they were impressed by that.

Fletcher noted that she had heard the same thing and hopefully the company will be back, but she is optimistic about gaining more prospects for our area.

?After going 6-8 months without and information on prospects we?ve had a lot of activity lately. It sometimes can take years to see something through; it is a marathon, not a sprint and it is very tedious, but we are on the radar.?

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In rare appearance, Hassan Nasrallah vows to ?remove? Israel

August 4, 2013 6:10am

(JTA) ? In a rare public appearance, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said of Israel, ?removing it is a Lebanese national interest.?

?Israel poses a danger on all people of this region ? including Lebanon,? Nasrallah said Friday?in southern Beirut in what the World Bulletin news site said was his first public appearance since last September.

Nasrallah has lived in hiding for fear of assassination by Israel since Hezbollah fought a monthlong war with Israel in 2006.

Speaking of Palestine, he said Palestinian leaders have no right to compromise on the land.

?The Palestine which we mean is a Palestine which stretches from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river and it should return to its rightful owners,? Nasrallah said, the Israeli news site Ynet reported. ?No king, president, sheik, state or country has the right to give up even one clod of Palestinian land.?

His speech was delivered to an audience at an event marking al-Quds Day ? a day devoted to Jerusalem and its extraction from Israeli control that was celebrated originally in 1979 in Iran. Nasrallah usually gives speeches via television screens.

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Coach's Corner: Pat Washington

August 4, 2013

Coach's Corner: Pat Washington

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Google takes note of Island scientist Bitners

Thirteen-year-old Mercer Island native Larissa Bitners is not your typical teenager.

Recently selected as one of the 90 finalists in the global Google Science Fair competition, the singularly gifted Bitners is already trailblazing new paths in the world of science.

Google?s online science competition invites young people from around the world to ?be curious, ask questions, and perform science experiments to answer those questions.? Last year?s winner from the 13-14 age group worked to help individuals with hearing loss enjoy a superior music experience by employing multi-frequency tactile sound.

Bitners? project involved experimenting whether a parabolic reflector could expand the range of a wireless network signal, and increase its security by directing radio waves to a particular area while blocking signals from neighboring properties. And if that sounds complicated, you?re certainly not alone.

Dubbed ?the fix-it girl? by her mother, Melinda, Bitners has had a knack for technology and science her entire life.

?She was one of those babies who took apart the remote control,? Melinda recalls. At age 7, Bitners dismantled and reassembled a transistor radio, and would later express puzzlement when discovering that her father didn?t know how to put window wipers on the family car, to her a seemingly uncomplicated task.

Tonya van Orden, her science teacher at Islander Middle School, asked her class to create projects in response to the same questions that the Google Science Fair had requested that contestants explore. However, the students weren?t required to submit their projects for actual competition.

Completed in merely a week and tested with the help of her dad, Bitners didn?t register that her project was something out of the ordinary, until van Orden approached Melinda Bitners with the suggestion that her daughter enter the project in the international competition.

?It was original,? van Orden recalls. After three years of giving out the assignment, van Orden had seen many students devise similar experiments, until Bitners handed in her project. She characterized her student?s work as clear and simple, a rare trait in science experiments these days.

?As scientists, we have to make what we do understandable to the rest of the world,? van Orden explains. Bitners did just that with her accessible and practical experiment.

She sat on the idea of submitting it to the global competition for a long time, and waited until minutes before the deadline to submit her experiment.

Her decision paid off, and Bitners was announced as one of 90 regional finalists from around the globe.

Not overly concerned with the outcome, one might find Bitners playing video games or practicing percussion for Islander Middle School?s jazz band instead of fretting over the Google Science Fair?s ultimate decision. Despite her cool and collected exterior, her mother suspects that she is excited about Google Science Fair?s recognition of her work.

?I think she is probably pretty proud of how far she?s gotten,? her mother said. And proud she should be.

Though Bitners narrowly missed making one of the top 15 spots when they were announced on June 27, Melinda explains that this development is something her daughter is not at all discouraged by, as ?she didn?t think her project was earth-changing.? Other experiments from her age group that advanced in the competition involved helping endangered species and solving the shortage crisis of rare-earth elements. However, Melinda is sure her daughter will compete in the Google Science Fair again in the future.

Having only just finished eighth grade, Larissa Bitners should be on Mercer Island?s radar as one to watch in coming years.

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Contact Mercer Island Reporter Intern Jennifer Flick at jflick@mi-reporter.com or 206-232-1215 ext. 5058.

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Fitness Challenge Underway to Help Those With Multiple Sclerosis ...

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SARTELL ? Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that is hard to overcome for anyone, but with partnership of Fitness Evolution and Fit-Pro, trainers are trying to help those with MS live a healthier lifestyle with the MS Fitness Challenge.

The event was created by David Lyons, who also suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, as a way to help those with MS try and fight this disease like he did.

?My goal was to get on a body building stage as soon as I can to prove to the world that even though I had MS I could still overcome this disease,? says Lyons.

This 12 week program with pair those who have MS with a trainer and help build the muscles that the disease try?s to take away.

?We?re trying to help them create a goal and help them achieve the next level of fitness, or mobility or better living,? says Fitness Evolution Club Owner Brad Kloss.

Throughout the day Fitness Evolution, in Sartell, will hold a live auction, zumbathon, food vendors, silent auction, as well as a live concert from Country Music Singer Julie Roberts which will start at 2:00 p.m.

?I?m very blessed that I can travel around singing my music and telling people about MS?, says Roberts, who also has MS. ?And telling those with it you can come and work out, and you can live a normal life, and you can follow your dreams.?

All the proceeds from the auction will then go into funding for trainers and memberships to those participating in the MS Fitness Challenge.

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Fitness Evolution holds an auction to raise money for the MS Fitness Challenge. (Photo: Alex Svejkovsky, WJON News)

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DA: Death of potential witness unrelated to Bulger

WOBURN, Mass. (AP) ? Cyanide-laced iced coffee led to the death of a man who'd just found out he wouldn't get to testify against reputed Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger, authorities said Friday, but linked the man's death to a business associate who owed him money, not to Bulger.

The body of 59-year-old Stephen Rakes of Quincy was found in the woods July 17, just a day after he learned he wouldn't take the witness stand against Bulger ? a man he'd openly despised and blamed for seizing control of his business to use as headquarters for Boston's Irish mob decades ago.

Bulger ran the city's feared Winter Hill Gang before fleeing in 1994 after a corrupt FBI agent tipped him off he was about to be arrested. He was captured in California two years ago and is on trial, accused of participating in 19 murders.

But authorities believe the suspect in Rakes' death, 69-year-old William Camuti, acted alone on the afternoon of July 16 when he lured Rakes to his death by arranging a meeting at a McDonald's in Waltham to pitch him a fake real estate deal, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said.

Camuti, of Sudbury, pleaded not guilty Friday after his arrest on charges including attempted murder. Authorities said the medical examiner still is awaiting toxicology test results to determine Rakes' exact cause of death, and prosecutors could file a murder charge later.

Authorities say Camuti bought two iced coffees and added two teaspoons of potassium cyanide to the one he gave to Rakes to drink. Investigators found out later that Camuti had made inquiries online about buying cyanide, Ryan said.

She said Rakes drank the poisoned drink and Camuti drove him around for hours before dumping his body in Lincoln, outside Boston between Lexington and Concord.

The prosecutor said Camuti and Rakes were business associates who had known each other for years and had done multiple deals. She said Camuti also owed Rakes a significant amount of money.

Camuti also faces charges of misleading police and unlawfully disposing of human remains. A judge ordered him held without bail until a Tuesday hearing, and his attorney didn't return a message.

Surveillance video from the federal courthouse where Bulger is being tried showed Rakes leaving July 16 after attending the trial, Ryan said. Rakes had been attending the trial every day. The prosecutor said Rakes was wearing the same clothing when found dead the next day without a wallet, identification, keys or a cellphone.

There was no sign of trauma to his body and authorities said following his autopsy that they'd have to await test results before they could say more about how he died.

Federal authorities have said Bulger forced Rakes and his former wife to sell him their South Boston liquor store in 1984.

Steve Davis, the brother of one of Bulger's alleged murder victims, called Rakes' death a sad situation. They became good friends and sat through many court hearings together after the FBI caught Bulger in California and crossed him off the agency's most-wanted list.

"The guy was full of life," Davis said of Rakes. "He was happy. He had two grandchildren who he always talked about."

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AP writers Rodrique Ngowi and Denise Lavoie in Boston contributed to this report.

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