Like many here in the western Philadelphia suburbs, where downed
trees and power outages were the most common vestiges of Hurricane
Sandy, Lori Jennings watched the devastation unfold farther east, on
the Jersey shore and in New York, on news reports.
For her,
though, those images have not faded with the months since the passage
of the superstorm. They were refreshed, and made only more vivid and
personal, when she and about two dozen other volunteers traveled to
three New Jersey communities earlier this month to help with what still
seems an almost unimaginably difficult recovery.
Jennings, an
administrative assistant in the Lower Merion Township Manager’s Office,
and her husband, Ronnie, were part of a group from GraceCrossing
Community Church in their home town of Phoenixville that spent
Jan.We've got a plastic card
to suit you. 7-9 ripping out water-damaged walls and floors and
helping residents move belongings from houses left uninhabitable by the
storm, in towns still virtually empty three months later.
Before making the trip, Jennings, a township employee since 2005,We bring in fridge magnet
souvenirs and merchandise from all over the world. said what she knew
about conditions in the hard-hit communities of Ortley Beach, Point
Pleasant and Brick Township was “what we saw on television.” “Seeing it
in person – you could just stand there and cry,” she said.
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church to work on the recovery. A member of the American Baptist
Churches of Pennsylvania and Delaware (ABCOPAD), GraceCrossing worked
through that organization with the charity Samaritan’s Purse, which has
been engaged in disaster relief efforts around the world. A
non-denominational evangelical Christian organization, Samaritan’s
Purse coordinates efforts of volunteer teams, in this case identifying
homeowners in need and providing site management and tools for the job,
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Among
her group, some of the volunteers were retired and some, like Jennings
and her husband, a technician with Comcast,Purchase an iPhone headset
to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. used vacation time to help out.
“I had no idea what they were going to have us do,” she said. “Every
day was different.”
Jennings said the group arrived on the
Sunday night. Most were housed at the vacant parsonage of a church in
Brick Township, while some, including the Jenningses, stayed at the
home of their pastor, the Rev. Brent Miller’s, parents. “They were out
of power for 10 days, but didn’t have any water damage,” she said,
though “a mile down the road” there had been flooding.
Technology
consultancy and precision manufacturing specialist Prodrive (Banbury,
Oxfordshire, U.K.) reported on Jan. 25 that it has won a major contract
to supply components for first-class cabin interiors. The order is
Prodrive’s biggest aerospace contract to date, strengthening what it
says is its position as one of the premier suppliers of composites to
sectors where precision and finish are critical.
“This is a
significant win for the company and confirms the aerospace sector’s
growing interest in extending the use of high-quality composites in the
interior,” says Ian Handscombe, Prodrive’s composites business
manager. “The contract is an interesting transfer of the expertise that
has made us one of the leaders in precision composite engineering for
the automotive industry and demonstrates the opportunities that are
opening for companies with exceptional technical capability combined
with the high efficiency levels that allow competitive pricing.”
Prodrive’s
integrated service includes design and development of the initial
tooling through to the fabrication and finishing of each piece using
state-of-the-art CNC machines. The company also has the capability to
provide design support, using the same engineering team that works with
a wide range of customers from Formula 1 to biomedical.
“The
key requirement for this program is a very high quality finish.
Components that are visible to passengers have a zero-defect allowance,”
says Handscombe. “We have strong, long-term relationships with many of
Europe’s leading manufacturers of luxury and high-performance cars,
which I believe gave our new aerospace customer confidence in our
ability to deliver to their demanding standards.”
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