| National Auctioneers Day on Saturday, April 21 Focuses on Charity ...
KANSAS CITY -- Auctioneers across the U.S. and world are conducting charity auctions and making separate donations to charities as part of National Auctioneers Day, on Saturday, April 21. Members of the National Auctioneers Association (NAA) have donated more than $4 million to St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital since 1995 to support this chosen charity of NAA. The hospital in Memphis, Tenn., provides pediatric cancer patients with the most advanced care available, and always regardless of the families ability to pay. Auctioneers and auction schools conduct special fundraising auctions for this charity, and other worthy causes in their communities, in April and throughout the year. Perhaps more than any other group, Auctioneers in all specialties routinely use their fundraising skills to help their local civic groups, churches, schools, and U.S.
The Good News in a Resignation
THE EXIT OF HEINRICH VON PIERER from Siemens is good for the corporation and Germany's self-image -- if it proves to be the platform for serious corporate reform. Von Pierer's departure Thursday as chairman of Siemens' supervisory board should help the company and investigators clean up the mess surrounding the bribery scandal that has overshadowed the conglomerate's otherwise impressive turnaround. His move should allow his successor as CEO, Klaus Kleinfeld, to focus more clearly on the day-to-day running of Siemens. The markets obviously were encouraged by the news. In midday trading in ... .
April 23: Our readers write
The Senate committee on Science, Commerce and Transportation will have a session April 25 about the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act. The committee may debate, amend or rewrite the proposed legislation and may vote on whether to send the bill to the Senate floor for consideration.Take a moment to let your senators know that you oppose S.311 and to review the facts about horse slaughter. This country and particularly Kentucky cannot afford to let emotional rhetoric of animal rights groups overwhelm reasoning. Horse processing is necessary to the horse industry. It ensures that a humane, federally supervised end-of-life option is available for unwanted horses. Here are a few reasons why: If the bill is passed, 100,000 unwanted horses a year will have no home and the animal rights groups supporting legislation have offered no solutions on how to care for them.
Subcontractor bids opened for new school project
MANCHESTER - The process of building a new middle and high school on Lincoln Street moved forward this week with the opening of bids for subcontractor work.
About 40 bids were received for a series of areas - electrical, heating system, plumbing, flooring and fire protection - that will be handled by subconstractors. The bids were opened Wednesday afternoon at the high school.Read this article in full with a
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