Local groups help Ellis Party Store recover from flood
36-year-old Sanford business thankful for support
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Ellis Party Store sustained significant damage after the May dam failures and regional flooding. Now, thanks to the generosity of local businesses and organizations, the Sanford business has a chance to start anew.
Mike Ellis established Ellis Party Store 36 years ago and currently runs the store with his daughter, Heather Ellis, who joined the business about 20 years ago. When the floods brought five feet of water into the building, everything was destroyed including the five new gas pumps they had installed in 2019 and the back buildings containing the store’s inventory.
Councillor Abid Hussain (Lab, Keighley Central) died of Covid 19 on Christmas Eve. And Councillor Mike Ellis (Cons, Bingley Rural) died earlier this week following a battle with cancer. Both men have sat on Bradford Council s Regulatory and Appeals Committee - a planning panel that makes decisions on the biggest planning applications. At the latest meeting of the Committee yesterday Chair Councillor David Warburton paid tribute to the late Councillors. Of Abid Hussain, who recently served as Lord Mayor of Bradford, he said: he was a close friend and fellow Labour party members for many, many years. He will sorely missed, and our thoughts go to his family and friends.
Johnson Controls Wins “IoT Partner Ecosystem of the Year” in 2021 IoT Breakthrough Award Program
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Annual IoT Breakthrough Awards Program Recognizes Standout Internet-of-Things Companies and Products
“A true ‘breakthrough’ IoT solution requires the work of several partners, and Johnson Controls continues to partner, co-innovate and invest with major companies in digital innovation and the broader industry” LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) January 14, 2021
IoT Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Internet-of-Things (IoT) market, today announced that Johnson Controls, the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, has been selected as the winner of the “IoT Partner Ecosystem of the Year” award in the 5th annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program. The company was honored for its OpenBlue digita
Councillor Mike Ellis, retaining his Council seat at the 2014 election Tributes have been paid to a “widely known and well liked” Bradford Councillor who died this morning. Conservative Councillor Mike Ellis, who represented the Bingley Rural ward had been fighting cancer. As well as being active in his ward, Cllr Ellis also sat on planning panels, scrutiny committees, and as a council representative on outside bodies looking at key issues such as transport and flooding. He was also the whip of the Conservative opposition. The party’s leader on the Council said that his main priority was “always his family, who he always spoke of with affection and pride.”