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Ex-Tennessee Titan Eddie George made his mark on the playing fields of the National Football League over nine seasons and pocketed a Heisman Trophy as a star running back at Ohio State before that Equipment Landscaping.

But these days, George is more interested in building a corporate identity to rival other ex-athletes such as professional golfer Jack Nicklaus, ex-pro quarterback Roger Staubach and basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson.

Last week, in an interview with Business Editor Randy McClain, George discussed his goals for a landscaping and graphic design firm he co-founded five years ago, and brainstormed about how to shape what he calls the “Eddie George” brand.

n 2000, I went back to school to finish up my landscape architecture degree. … I was 16 hours short. I didn’t want to leave that undone. I had aspirations of doing things business-wise after I finished playing football, and on top of that I was going to be just the first or second athlete at Ohio State to ever go through their landscape architecture program.

So, that’s something I wanted as an accomplishment under my belt. Equipment Landscaping A year later — after getting my degree — I called my professor, Jim Hiss, who was instrumental in helping me get through the program and asked his advice on starting my own landscape architecture firm. How could I do that?

Given the fact that I hadn’t practiced in the profession, I felt like my main focus in starting the company would be to bring relationships that I had already established in the business community to the table. And pair that with expertise of others to create our company.

I would be the business developer and market the firm and make sure we were producing the correct product.

Richard McBride, Jim Hiss, Tedd Hardesty and (later) John Haas in Nashville — all of them have a connection to Ohio State and the landscape architecture program. We started in a small box-like office in Tedd’s home and shortly thereafter, about two years, we merged with an existing land planning firm (in Columbus, Ohio) to give us that balance of land planning with landscape architecture. We have offices in Columbus and Nashville and about 35 employees. We are about to open another office in Toledo, Ohio. We have four or five equal partners.

We are slowly but surely going into markets where I have had success in my playing career (which ended in 2005) and I am known in the community.

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One speciality of St Equipment Landscaping. Anthony Park resident Erik Jorgensen, whose landscaping business is called Wandering Designs, is creating Alzheimer’s gardens, which often include a structure such as a gazebo.

Unless you know someone with Alzheimer’s disease, you may never have heard of an Alzheimer’s garden. The concept is popular on both coasts but isn’t well-known in Minnesota.

That’s changing, however, through the efforts of St. Anthony Park resident Erik Jorgensen and his business, Wandering Designs, which specializes in therapeutic gardens.

An Alzheimer’s garden is usually constructed as part of a nursing home or retirement home in an area protected from the elements. There must be a solid fence at least eight feet high — so residents don’t try to leave or become distressed by what happens outside the garden — and a locked gate. Pathways should be easy to follow.

The garden should be calm and peaceful but have many sources of stimulation: brightly colored flowers with pleasant scents, plants and pathways with varied textures  Equipment Landscaping. Often Jorgensen includes water features or wind chimes, as well as feeders that attract birds and other wildlife.

At the farthest point of the garden is a major focal point —Equipment Landscaping a table with a brightly colored umbrella, wishing well, gazebo, porch — to coax people along the paths, and there are frequent rest stops with benches that have backs and arm rests. Benches are angled rather than facing each other because most Alzheimer’s patients don’t like to look at other people straight on.

Jorgensen tries to evoke childhood memories by using old-fashioned plants such as hollyhocks, clotheslines, picket fences, wishing wells and arbors. He adds an open area for activities: having a barbecue, planting flowers or vegetables, meeting with therapy animals.

“The garden must be an active rather than a passive place,” he says.

Jorgensen grew up in Como Park and attended North Dakota State University and the University of Minnesota, where he got a bachelor’s degree in environmental design. He worked for Bachman’s in Eden Prairie, where he ran the garden center, and later joined McCarron Designs, where he did interior landscape design. He did “The Mighty Axe” at the Mall of America and the landscaping design for the Episcopal Home on University Avenue.

In 1999 the American Society of Landscape Architects began “One Hundred Years, One Hundred Gardens,” a pro bono project on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. McCarron Designs worked with other landscape artists to plan the Tabitha Garden, specifically for Alzheimer’s patients, at the Regina Medical Center in Hastings.

Jorgensen looked for others with more experience to help him but wasn’t able to find anyone. So he began educating himself about Alzheimer’s patients and the general principles guiding their care.

The project was a success and Jorgensen became the resident expert on Alzheimer’s gardens at McCarron Designs. After being laid off there, he received a commission to plan a therapy garden in the courtyard at the HealthEast Marion Center in St. Paul. That lead to other jobs, and he started his own company, Wandering Designs, in 2003, with Alzheimer’s gardens as his specialty. About 85 percent of his business is therapy gardens.

“This feels so much better to me than doing corporate landscaping,” Jorgensen says. “That is often just to feed someone’s ego by constructing a fabulous interior space. This is an ‘egoless’ endeavor — to design a place that feels more like home than an institution for people who are at the end of their lives. It feels right.”

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The black flies and mosquitoes were so thick he gave up on sketching and set out to go fishing alone one Sunday in Algonquin Park.

Tom Thomson’s canoe was found floating upside down a few hours later Equipment Landscaping.

His bloated body surfaced in Canoe Lake the next week – shrouded in a mystery still not laid to rest more than 90 years later.

How did the famous Toronto painter die on July 8, 1917: was it by accident, Equipment Landscaping suicide or murder?

Who found his body?

Where are his remains buried?

These questions are explored in one of three new sections of Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History, an educational website launched by the University of Victoria in 1997.

“It, for me, was just a compelling story,” said project research director Gregory Klages, a graduate student in the joint communication and culture program at York and Ryerson Universities.

“It had all the great makings of a great mystery: a suspicious death, accusations of murder, suicide, accidental death, a question about where Thomson’s body was buried.

“There just seemed to be so many questions.”

Visitors to the site  Equipment Landscaping – called Death on a Painted Lake: the Tom Thomson Tragedy – are encouraged to tackle these questions themselves by combing through primary sources such as letters, journal entries and newspaper reports and draw their own conclusions about his life and death.

They will explore a young country grappling with its first great war and a landscape marred by the logging industry.

They will meet a cast of characters including his family, park residents turned murder suspects long after the fact, fellow artists like Group of Seven founder A.Y. Jackson and the various people – including journalist Roy MacGregor – who have investigated the story of his death.

“Growing up in a rural high school, we didn’t have the opportunity to go to museums, to go to art galleries, to handle these primary documents,” said Klages.

“Something like this site would have been tremendously useful.

“It’s to allow students, on the one hand, to get access to the primary documents, to learn how to handle them [by] themselves responsibly as historians, as critical thinkers, Equipment Landscaping and also by handling these primary documents, to make some decisions for themselves about what might have happened,” he said, adding they will be learning about Canadian history and art as they go along.

The site also offers contemporary interpretations of the evidence, including a report by Chief Forensic Pathologist of Ontario Michael Pollanen.

Pollanen concluded the coroner at the time – who never examined the body – was wrong to agree with a doctor’s opinion that the cause of Thomson’s death was accidental drowning.

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Great condo gardens are built from inspiration. Before the perspiration begins, inspiration sparks the imagination and drives the condo garden design.Equipment Landscaping Insight and ideas spring from many sources: glossy books and magazines, neighbouring condo gardens as well as show gardens at home and garden shows.

Knowing just how important ideas, innovation and inspiration are to GTA’s residents, the Toronto Star has sponsored the dream gardens at the National Home Show (Exhibition Place, daily until April 13). Arnis Budrevics (director and principal architect of Alexander Budrevics & Associates) along with 16-featured landscapers designed and built the gardens – 42,000-square-feet with flowers, foliage, accessories and well-designed spaces.

“I’m a second-generation landscape architect from the same firm that has been looking after the National Home Show for over 40 years,” Budrevics says. “Alexander, my father, ran the home show over the last 35 years and I’ve actively co-ordinated the dream gardens for the last five years.”

Each garden’s space is about 1,000 square feet, specifically transferable to small urban gardens.

“If you want to reduce it further to make it a condominium garden,” Budrevics says, “remember the entire show is built on a hard concrete slab. Therefore everything you see can be adapted to your garden because it’s already manufactured and it’s not planted in-ground.

“The show gardens serve as inspiration, in its entirety or just parts of it,” Budrevics explains. “Inspiration could come from a unique fountain, a pot, plants or the arrangement of furniture.”

“The garden should be a reflection of your lifestyle and interests,” Budrevics says. “A successful garden is one which you created yourself, Equipment Landscaping because it is an extension of your own life. It has to be your design, not something that someone is going to sell you, because pretty soon you will either modify it or you won’t use it since it isn’t you.”

Since balconies, courtyards and terraces can be seen from inside the condo, it looks better if a similar style and materials are used in both spaces. To create a seamless transition, take decorating cues from the inside, such as colours and textures, and use it outdoors. The outdoor space not only becomes an extension of your living space, but it is also a place that reflects your taste, personality and lifestyle.

Memory is tricky, and with the hustle and bustle of the show, details become fuzzy later on. So, before you go, pop a few things into your bag: a rough sketch of your garden (outlining shape and size), a notebook, a tape measure and a camera.

Take photos of the show gardens or objects that spark your imagination. Use the tape measure to objectively measure things. Once at home,Equipment Landscaping  see how the images translate into your outdoor space. Remember, with condo gardens it’s all about scale. Smaller spaces need smaller scaled furniture and plants. Measure to see if the “inspiration” will fit into your space.

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When Michael Krabbe was a teenager, he was the one who washed the family car before buying and caring for his own.

After graduating from Purdue University with a degree in hospitality, he worked in the industry, most recently as general manager and chief operating officer at Hillcrest Country Club in Long Grove.

Krabbe combined country club service and car washing in creating Details Car Wash at 2347 Hicks Road in Palatine, at the southwest corner of Hicks and Lake Cook roads.

“It’s an upscale car wash,” Krabbe said. “This is something I’ve always dreamed of.”

A brick building, landscaping, a patio overlooking a tree-lined waterfront setting and all the latest state-of-the-art washing equipment are some of the amenities. Three computers with free Internet access and an area for children to help wash cars is coming soon.

“We want to make an environment that’s comfortable for our customers and their children,” said Krabbe, 36.

Taking the best features from other car washes, he started the process of building the business three years ago. For example, the vacuum cleaners are placed at the end of the wash in an effort to shorten the amount of time customers wait in line.

Flex serve is offered so patrons can have just an exterior wash, which sells for $6, while the premium service is $19.95. An array of options at prices in between is also available.

The business, which opened last week, is in the process of installing high pressure water guns that children can spray through the glass. “This is called ‘Daddy’s Little Helper,’ ” Krabbe said. He saw this feature at a Wheaton car wash.

Krabbe, the majority owner, has five silent partners. He is hosting an opening weekend special today through Sunday where all wash services will be half price.

Detail services are also offered at the three-bay facility. In addition to traditional detailing, Krabbe offers windshield repair, wheel rim repair and micro paint repair for scuffs. “We do this at a fraction of the cost seen at other places,” he said.

The shop also offers mobile detailing services. Krabbe explained that they go to country clubs, offices or homes to make detailing more convenient. All the detailing equipment, water and electricity is brought to the customer in a trailer. Convenience is key, Krabbe said.

The car wash and the mobile units are environmentally friendly utilizing a water re-claim system.

An express detail that includes an exterior wash or carpet shampoo is also available an can be done while the customer waits. It takes about 20 minutes and costs $39.95.

“I’m trying to take the private club experience into a car wash,” the owner said. This can be seen by the flowers planted out front to the upscale coffee products served.

Krabbe and his wife, Laina, are raising two children in Long Grove. Faith is 5 and Austin is three months old.

The car wash is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. For more information, call (847) 776-9393.

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All the plants in our gardens have a history. It might go back only as far as the end-of-season table at your favorite nursery. It might go back to your grandmother’s garden.

Or it could go back even further. You can plant a tree that is a little bit of American history.

The Historic Tree Nursery offers you just that opportunity. The nursery is part of American Forests, a conservation group that champions trees and their effects on our environment, offers educational resources and created the National Register of Historic Trees.

Historic Trees champions trees and sells them. It offers trees that have been grown from cuttings of trees that are in some way connected to people and events in our nation’s history. That’s right, more than just a black locust, it’s a black locust propagated from the tree at Independence Park in Philadelphia.

A tree could have been a silent witness to a big event or just a sapling when a famous person lived nearby — trees we can grow, point to and say: “Walt Disney dreamed under that cottonwood.”

Choose a tree that represents your political leanings, your love of history, a statement for conservation or a love of literature. You can grow a paper birch (Betula papyrifera) from Teddy Roosevelt’s New York home, Sagamore Hill.

Plant a tree that knew George Washington. In our region, the chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus) usually is more like a large shrub than a tree. It blooms in summer with spikes of flowers like lavender candelabra. This chaste tree came from River Farm, owned by Washington and now the home of the American Horticultural Society.

A sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) from Robert E. Lee’s birthplace, Stratford Hall in Virginia, and a redbud (Cercis canadensis) from President Andrew Jackson’s home, the Hermitage, are two other offerings from our nation’s history.

Perhaps a Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) from Graceland is more your style. Or a redbud grown from seed selected from one on the Henry Ford Estate.

The Historic Trees list is heavy with live oaks (Quercus virginiana), which is understandable since they are long-lived and many were close to big events in our history in the Southeast. It’s no wonder there’s an 800-year-old Native American live oak marker in Florida or a 500-year-old Council Oak in Texas.

The enormous, octopuslike branches of this evergreen can bend to the ground and then up again, reaching a spread of 50 to 150 feet or more; mature trees are usually wider than they are high. A line of live oaks is an impressive sight.

Southern live oaks don’t grow well in our climate, so you won’t be able to plant a Ray Charles live oak (propagated from the tree growing on the grounds of the school he attended in Florida) or an Alamo live oak.

No matter, there’s more history to be had, such as the golden raintree (Koelreuteria paniculata) growing at the 18th-century home of James Bartram, America’s first botanist, who taught Meriwether Lewis his botanical p’s and q’s.

Trees act as a commemoration, even if they weren’t planted for a particular reason, as is obvious from the historic tree nursery. They sell trees propagated from the sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) that grows at the bridge over Antietam Creek, a tree that is in photographs taken immediately after the Civil War battle there in September 1862.

That tree stands today, and not only are its progeny for sale, but it has been listed by The Cultural Landscape Foundation as one of the “Heroes of Horticulture.”

The trees designated by that organization represent historic landscapes, such as the Antietam sycamore, as well as historic and impressive botanical displays, such as the 100-year-old boulevard of bougainvilleas in Glendora, Calif. Other designees are plants or botanical collections under threat.

A local made the list: a eucalyptus (Eucalyptus perriniana) planted at the Washington Park Arboretum in 1968 is a Hero of Horticulture. Forty years may not seem old enough to be significant, but this spinning gum was a pioneer of its day: eucalyptuses were not common garden plants at the time.

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The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a package of employee pay increases that will cost $255 million by 2012, even as the city’s budget officials issued new warnings about the city’s finances.

On a 12-0 vote, the council gave five years’ worth of raises to roughly 22,000 city workers, including librarians, park employees, security guards, part-time crossing guards and city attorneys.

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This is what David Zahniser reported in the LA Times

The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a package of employee pay increases that will cost $255 million by 2012, even as the city’s budget officials issued new warnings about the city’s finances.

On a 12-0 vote, the council gave five years’ worth of raises to roughly 22,000 city workers, including librarians, park employees, security guards, part-time crossing guards and city attorneys.

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The Los Angeles Times reported this week on an unusual land-swap proposal whereby the city would allow a developer to build on a five-acre park in North Hollywood and, in return, the developer would build a new park. The idea has provoked some concerns and myriad points of view. Land use issues are a high priority on many of LA%26rsquo;s Neighborhood Council agendas. CityWatch offers some perspective: the setup by the Times and two responses from North Hollywood community activists.

As part of the city%26#39;s move toward a denser urban environment, officials are lending support to an unusual land-swap plan that would allow a developer to build on a five-acre park in North Hollywood. Under the proposal, the developer, J.H. Snyder Co., would replace part of Valley Plaza Park with a parking structure for a new mega-development rivaling The Grove shopping center in square footage. In exchange, the company said it would build a new park a few blocks away, adjacent to a 700-unit condominium and apartment complex that Snyder also plans to build.The parkland swap, approved in concept by the city%26#39;s Community Redevelopment Agency, is the only such transfer in recent memory, according to a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks.It has sparked concern among some local residents, who worry that the developer ultimately will not build a new park as promised. (Read complete story: www.LATimes.com )

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Staff Reports LA%26rsquo;s Water and Power Board on Tuesday gave the go-ahead to a five-year renewal to the historic and precedent-setting Neighborhood Council/DWP Memorandum of Understanding. In addition to the five-year term (the first MOU ran for two years), the DWP also agreed to Increase in the amount of notice DWP must give NC%26rsquo;s on proposed rate increases to 120 days Up from 90 days.The department and participating Neighborhood Councils entered into the original agreement in April of 2005, after a lengthy period of collaboration. The negotiations came about when Neighborhood Councils staged a citywide protest against a proposed 18% increase in water rates. The ensuing agreement %26hellip; the NC/DWP MOU %26hellip; was a first for Neighborhood Councils and city departments in its size and scope. Many observers believe that the successful flexing of their collective muscle was a turning point for Councils.Fifty one Neighborhood Councils ultimately signed the MOU. As of this writing, 39 have taken board action and signed onto the renewal.Renewal negotiations were spearheaded for NCs by Soledad Garcia, Chair of the MOU Oversight Committee. (Info: To read or download the new MOU%26mdash;www.ladwp.com/nc; for questions or for more information, email Garcia at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
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Empowerment Congress SE to Consider Video Pilot

The Empowerment Congress Southeast will consider the Internet Video-on-Demand Pilot Project at its next board meeting.The Pilot Project will be offered to Councils on a lottery basis and will allow the co-sponsoring city departments, Neighborhood Empowerment and Information Technology, to see if it works. The idea is to allow video-on-demand access to Neighborhood Councils to air or stream tapes of their meetings.The lottery for Councils is set for April 21 and July 1 is the proposed start date.The hiccup for NCs is the cost: $9,000 for a year of service that includes camera and audio equipment.No word yet on which way the Empowerment SE folks are leaning or how many NCs have signed up for the lottery. (Get details at: www.lacityneighborhoods.com or call 213.485.1360.)

Congress of Neighborhoods: Program a Smorgasbord

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Tired of Stolen Cars: NCs Pay for Cameras

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North Hills West Nixes Cell Tower at SRO Meeting

At a standing room only meeting on Wednesday, the Board of the North Hills West Neighborhood Council (NHWNC) voted unanimously to support residential stakeholders and deny developer requests for two undesirable projects The Board voted to oppose a proposed 50 ft. T-Mobile Cell Tower at Valley Park Baptist Church. The project was opposed by both neighbors and parents of students attending Our Community School (OCS) which shares the property with the church. The second project denied by the NHWNC Board is a three story-130 Unit apartment complex proposed by the Sepulveda Unitarian Universalist Society. Stakeholder Valentina Sendin presented petitions in opposition to the project signed by 181 affected residents. A major concern for the homeowners and the NHWNC is the introduction of ultra high density zoning in an area designated by the Mission Hills-Panorama City-North Hills Community Plan to remain Very Low Density.

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