Louisville City Council OKs contracts for wheelchair ramps, sidewalks
The Repository
DISCUSSION: Miracle Concrete Contractors of Canton will replace
wheelchair ramps and sidewalks at a cost of $6.50 per square foot.
The city will direct Miracle as to which ramps and sidewalks need to
be replaced. The wheelchair ramps are a requirement of the Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA). All work will include replacement of
topsoil, seed and straw for the grass areas.
No dates were set for the onset of construction. The city has marked those sidewalks that need to be replaced. Any required
wheelchair ramps will be paid for by the city, while sidewalk repairs
Bay Area toll collectors drive off into the sunset
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Sonny Hasme stands inside one of the formerly used toll booths that he worked in at the Carquinez Bridge Toll Plaza in Vallejo. Hasme was a toll collector for 19 years, during which he got known as the “dancing toll collector” because he liked to groove to the music on his radio. He’s since moved on to another job with CalTrans. In-person toll collection is now a relic of the past in California, as the Bay Area bridges have permanently switched to electronic collection.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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By a curious twist of fate, I was browsing through some books on Amazon when I saw a digital copy of one of the finest historical novels I’ve read, Freedom at Midnight, co-authored by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins. I couldn’t resist buying it. I would find the time to reread their excellent record of India’s (and Pakistan’s) independence in 1947.
I thought that Freedom at Midnight would be a good read some 40 years after I first read it. What I discovered in this edition is that Collins had passed on, and Lapierre dedicated a new, quite in-depth story-within-a-story about how they came to write the original. While India and Pakistan might have been news or of interest to many people, it did not seem to be the most exciting theme for a duo that had written the explosive doomsday thriller, The Fifth Horseman.
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