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Written by Gina Lindsey (O-N-E Staff Reporter)
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
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Three area middle school students in Catawba Science Center’s Critical Thinking Institute 2 were challenged to come up with ideas on how Carolina Container could recycle and save money. It wasn’t an easy task considering the Hickory plant already recycles more than 80 percent of its scrap material. On Friday, the students presented a Microsoft PowerPoint illustrating the cost-saving suggestions they came up with. Already, the company is looking at implementing many of their ideas into the recycling of materials it used to waste like copy paper, polyurethane and aluminum cans. “The first day it was really hard because everything they do is so good for the environment,” Laurel Diciuccio, a rising eighth-grader at Maiden Middle School, said. |
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Written by Gina Lindsey (O-N-E Staff Reporter)
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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Vibrations from moving cars is the reason a water main broke in Sherrills Ford on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Hickory utility workers spent Thursday morning repairing the broken pipes after about 3,000 gallons of water was lost, Paul Solomon, Hickory Water Distribution Manager, said. City crews managed to avoid cutting off water to 100 Sherrills Ford residents along Slanting Bridge Road and along N.C. 150 from Terrell to East Maiden Road for three hours. Solomon said the water main, located near the bridge close to the Sherrills Ford Road and Slanting Bridge Road intersection, lost water due to some loose bolts around the coupling. |
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