| Big BGH dig unearths buried ruins
While excavating the area for a new parking lot in the northeast portion of the hospital property, workers uncovered the foundation of the long-ago demolished Avon jewelry manufacturing plant. The products were made for the company that distributes the famous line of women's cosmetics.
"When I started in 1975, the Avon factory was standing," said John Baltutis of Quinte Health Care's capital project team which is overseeing the rebuilding of Belleville hospital. "It was just shortly after that they tore it down to make more parking."
The hospital purchased the vacant plant, as well as homes along First Street that were also demolished.
They were not the only footings to be found.
Just west of the parking lot, where the Sills Wing will be situated, the foundation for a building that was part of the hospital at one time was uncovered.
Homebuilders Northwest wins energy-efficiency award
Salem's Homebuilders Northwest Inc., a manufactured-home producer, received a state award last month for building energy-efficient homes in Oregon in 2006. The Oregon Department of Energy presented the company with the Northwest Energy Efficient Manufactured Housing award for the highest percentage of Energy Star homes built in the state last year. It was the fifth consecutive year that the company has won the award. Homebuilders Northwest currently builds about 95 percent of its homes to the Northwest Energy Efficient Manufactured Home Program standards and for the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Industrialized Housing Partnership guidelines. Homebuilders Northwest has been in business in Salem since 1994. -- Beth Casper .
Habitat house a labor of love for Unity students
Unity High School student Corey Witt drives a screw into a board of a wall stud that will be a part of a Habitat for Humanity house while another student holds it in place by standing on it during Tim Keyes' industrial arts class. Students in the class will complete a house for the program for the second year in a row. (H-W Photo/Jennifer Coombes) .
Soft housing market hits Universal Forest earnings
Blaming a weaker-than-expected housing market, Universal Forest Products Inc. said earnings for the first-quarter plummeted to $3.9 million, or 20 cents a share, compared with $15.9 million, or $2.38 a share. The Grand Rapids-based maker of wood and do-it-yourself home improvement products said sales for the quarter ended March 31 dropped to $549 million, versus $665.6 million, in the same period a year earlier. .
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