Author: Cecil Larson

This fall, Illinois Chicago Architecture Biennial and Indiana Columbus Fair they anchor architecture and design events throughout Middle America. But there are plenty of free talks to listen to in case big shows don't make your schedule. To help you keep up with the momentum, ONE create a curated list of lecture events taking place in architecture programs throughout the Midwest. University of Michigan, Taubman College Of Architecture and Urban Planning Marc Simmons, director of Front, Inc.September 24 Carme Pigem, co-founder of RCR ArquitectesOctober 8 Mark Burry, its founding director Swinburne University of Technology's Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI).October 31…

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PHILADELPHIA, February 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Sila Services, LLC is pleased to announce the acquisition of Ainsley Heating & Cooling, a market leading home service company based in Cortland, Ohio. Founded in 1976, Ainsley has become the leading name in heating and cooling services for residential customers in Northeast Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Since its inception, Ainsley has focused on an unwavering commitment to exceptional quality workmanship and expert service with an emphasis on 100% satisfaction throughout the customer experience. “The Ainsley team's ambition to participate in building a best-in-class business, run by and for the world's best merchants, made…

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The Nebraska State Fair is held annually in late August-early September in Grand Island. It's an 11-day event that always ends on Labor Day. The focus of the exhibition was primarily agriculture. However, in recent years, it has turned into entertainment as most people come to enjoy the carnival fun, take a few rides on the Midway, listen to live music and try delicious food and drinks. The first fair was held in Nebraska City in 1859. It has changed locations—Brownville, Lincoln, and Omaha—until it moved to Grand Island in 2008, and the state spent $42 million on new facilities…

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Play-by-play announcer Chip Caray, left, and analyst Brad Thompson are set to call the Cardinals' spring open home Saturday for Bally Sports Midwest. Geoff Goldman, Bally Sports Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify The Cardinals are coming off their first last-place finish in three decades and their worst local television ratings.So, perhaps mercifully, there has been a reduction in the number of spring training games scheduled to be shown this year on local rights holder Bally Sports Midwest, from 15 last year to 12 now. Chip Caray – entering his second season as the primary BSM Cards play-by-play…

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The Shops of Prairie Village is now home to three new medical practices, including a women's and family health clinic and a “medical concierge” concept where patients can receive personalized care at a great value. The new practices are located in the same building on the second floor of the renovated US Bank building at 6936 Mission Road. Known as Town Plaza HCA Midwest Healthpractices officially opened on Wednesday. There is both a family practice and a women's practice Laurie Fisher, a physician at Town Plaza Family Practice, said at a grand opening event Wednesday that her patients range in…

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MINNEAPOLIS — There may be snow on the ground now, but state health and environmental officials are still investigating data from the 2023 Summer of Smoke and its impact on our air quality.”This year we had days of orange, and then it would be red and then orange again,” Matt Taraldsen, supervisory meteorologist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, told WCCO. “This year we also had the smoke that would leave some residue behind and produce ozone after smoke intrusion.”SUMMER OF TOBACCO: Protect yourself and your loved ones from fire pollutionTobacco, of course, was a result of a Canadian fire…

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In April 1991, as the senior class at Lawrence University in Wisconsin was planning various spring break trips to hike in the Ozarks. Playing on the beaches in Florida. or canoeing on the glassy lakes in northern Minnesota, a guy named David Godfrey and I would take what most people thought was a wacky, if not rather extravagant, trip: we'd drive a rented red lawn Cadillac through the rolling hills of northeastern Iowa, avoiding interstates and only taking back roads. I had a terrible idea to do an independent study in Midwestern poetry during my last semester as a Lawrence…

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By Kay Hunt For The Oklahoman | Oklahoman(Editor's note: This is the second part of a two-part series on the founding and development of what would become the Midwest City-Del City School District.)MIDWEST CITY — While 1943 and 1944 were the years that laid the foundation for a school district in Midwest City, the focus of the years that followed was on providing an environment conducive to continued growth, vision and achievement.Oscar V. Rose, the first superintendent, and JE Sutton, principal, had worked to meet the early challenges presented in starting a new district. Now, their focus was managing growth…

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Listen to this article The Texas ranch where Gilda Jackson trains and sells horses has been plagued by locusts this year, a problem that only gets worse when it hatches during hot, dry periods. Jackson watched this summer as the insects chewed through a 35-acre pasture in dire need of hay. what they did not destroy the sun burned. Irrigation may have saved Jackson's hay, but she and her husband scrapped the idea about 10 years ago because of the cost: up to $75,000 for a new well and all the equipment. But now — with a widespread drought and…

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EXCITING – Eastern Michigan University will host the 2024 Sesi Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference and Skandalaris Business Plan Competition on Friday, March 8, 2024, at 9 a.m. at McKenny's Ballroom, 878 W Cross St. in Ypsilanti. This free half-day event celebrates and fosters entrepreneurial spirit in high school and college students, teachers and community members from across the Midwest, as well as an opportunity to pitch business ideas to win cash prizes.”Entrepreneurship and the opportunity to celebrate young entrepreneurs is a vital force for positive change in our communities,” said Sanjib Chowdhury, faculty director of the Entrepreneurship Center at EMU. “The…

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