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Daily Record
05-07-2025
- General
- Daily Record
Lochwinnoch residents and visitors encouraged to contribute to Renfrewshire Council heritage project consultation
Renfrewshire Council has encouraged people to participate in the consultation which will close on July 11. Lochwinnoch residents and visitors have until next Friday to share their views on a proposal for an ambitious heritage-leg regeneration project within the village's conservation area. Renfrewshire Council has encouraged people to participate in the consultation, which has been canvassing opinion since the start of last month and will close on July 11. A statement said: "We're applying to the National Lottery heritage fund and Historic Environment Scotland for funding to develop a proposal for a heritage-led regeneration project within the Lochwinnoch conservation area. "If we get funding, this initial project will look at investing in Lochwinnoch's built heritage and historical buildings [and] creating a plan to promote the history of the village. "To help with our application for funding, we want to understand how local people and visitors value Lochwinnoch's heritage and what they think of the village centre, its amenities, attractions, shops and things to do there." The idea, which has been dubbed the 'Cornerstones Project', was considered at the local authority's economy and regeneration policy board in May. A report to the board explained: "The centre of Lochwinnoch was developed in the 18th Century as a planned expansion of the older village, organised around three primary axes. "Cornerstones seeks to revitalise Lochwinnoch's streetscape and economy by focusing investment within the conservation area where these axes meet. "Repair grants will help preserve Lochwinnoch's historic built environment; a parallel programme of community engagement activities will emphasise the value of the village's heritage, raise awareness of its unique history, and develop local expertise around traditional building skills." The scheme area encompasses the central section of the Main Street/High Street axis and its junction with the Calder Street/Church Street axis; the southeast section of the Calder Street/Church Street axis as far as the south corner of Harvey Square; and the southwest section of the Harvey Terrace/Gates Road axis which terminates with Lochwinnoch Parish Church on Church Street. The deadline for submitting applications for the initial development phase is August 6. If they are successful, this year-long phase will start in June 2026 and conclude in May 2027 with the submission of delivery phase applications to both funders. If those latter applications are successful, it is anticipated the full Cornerstones project would run from April 2028 for five years. Councillor Andy Doig, an independent representative for the village, said at the meeting: "When it's something like this which deals with heritage, you want to really take villages along with you. "I think that takes a wee bit longer to get groups in place for the proper liaison to take place as well ... I'm delighted that the officers have realised that there is life outside Paisley in a heritage sense. "It would be a massive boost for the conservation area in Lochwinnoch." For more information and to contribute to the consultation, visit here.
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
StarKist® Partners with Feed the Children and Cornerstones for Fourth Annual Summer Food and Resource Rally in Northern Virginia
Hundreds of Families Receive Food and Household Essentials at Resource Rally RESTON, Va., June 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hunger remains a significant issue in communities throughout Northern Virginia, where thousands of families face food insecurity. In response, StarKist, Feed the Children, and Cornerstones partnered with Floris United Methodist Church in Herndon, VA, to host their Fourth Annual Summer Food and Resource Rally today, providing hunger relief to 400 underserved families in the region. "StarKist is proudly headquartered in Reston, and partnering with Cornerstones and Feed the Children for our Fourth Annual Resource Rally allows us to make a direct and meaningful difference for those facing real challenges in our community," said Edward Min, StarKist President and CEO. "In uncertain times, access to affordable, high-quality protein is essential, and we're proud that StarKist products can help meet that need." During the event, regional business leaders, elected officials, StarKist employee volunteers, and community advocates joined forces to help address food insecurity along the Dulles Corridor. Volunteers distributed 400 family kits containing StarKist products, 25-pound boxes of shelf-stable food, 15-pound boxes of hygiene essentials, and additional resources. Each kit was designed to support a family of four, providing more than 8,300 meals to 400 households this summer. "Food insecurity in Fairfax County has reached new highs," reflects Kerrie Wilson, CEO of Cornerstones. "Many local families who have never needed assistance before are now turning to neighborhood food pantries for help. At our Cornerstones' Assistance Services and Food Pantry and our FREE from Hunger Center, as well as at many of the region's neighborhood pantries and feeding programs, we are seeing a surge in families reaching out for support. We are deeply grateful to team up with StarKist and Feed the Children, whose generosity and commitment have made a real difference for our neighbors in need this summer." For Feed the Children, the Summer Food and Resource Rally provides an opportunity to help meet the community's immediate needs while making a meaningful difference for families. Feed the Children believes it takes everyone – the nonprofit sector, corporations, community organizations, government officials, and food suppliers – to come together to end childhood hunger. "We've seen the significant impact Resource Rallies have in supporting communities experiencing food insecurity, and we're grateful to be working with StarKist and Cornerstones to make a difference in the lives of children and families," said Emily Callahan, President and CEO of Feed the Children. "Working together we're able to provide food and quality of life essentials that children and families need to survive, grow, and thrive. Through the power of partnership, we can make a greater impact as we seek to create a world where no child goes to bed hungry." In addition to the event in Reston, StarKist will partner with Feed the Children to host a Summer Resource Rally in Bentonville, Arkansas later this month, and will also collaborate with the Magic Johnson Foundation on its Holiday Hope event in Los Angeles in November. Over the past 16 years, StarKist has donated more than 1.2 million pounds of protein-rich tuna and chicken products, representing nearly $4.9 million in product donations and an additional $985,000 in monetary support to help food-insecure children and families across the U.S. Through its ongoing partnership with Feed the Children, StarKist has supported more than 20 Resource Rally events nationwide, including disaster and emergency response efforts. These efforts continue StarKist's long history of addressing hunger and food shortages, a commitment that dates back to 1917 when the company helped meet the nation's protein needs during World War I. About StarKist Co. is a socially responsible company that empowers people to live a healthy lifestyle by providing convenient nutritious proteins. An industry innovator, StarKist was the first brand to introduce convenient single-serve pouch products, which include StarKist Tuna Creations®, Salmon Creations®, and Chicken Creations® in over 40 varieties. As America's favorite tuna, StarKist represents a tradition of quality, consumer trust and a commitment to sustainability. StarKist's charismatic brand icon, Charlie The Tuna®, swam into the hearts of tuna fans in 1961 and is still a fan favorite today. StarKist Co. is a direct wholly owned subsidiary of Dongwon Industries Co., Ltd. About Feed the ChildrenFeed the Children is a leading nonprofit committed to ending childhood hunger. The organization believes that no child should go to bed hungry, and so it provides children and families in the U.S. and around the world with the food and essentials kids need to grow and thrive. Through its programs and partnerships, the organization feeds children today while helping families and communities build resilient futures. In addition to food, Feed the Children distributes household and personal care items across the United States to help parents and caregivers maintain stable, food-secure households. Internationally, it expands access to nutritious meals, safe water, improved hygiene, and training in sustainable living. As responsible stewards of its resources, Feed the Children is driven to pursue innovative, holistic, and child-focused solutions to the complex challenges of hunger, food insecurity, and poverty. For children everywhere, the organization believes that having enough to eat is a fundamental right. Learn how you can help create a world without childhood hunger at About CornerstonesTogether with our community, Cornerstones promotes stability, empowerment, and hope through support, advocacy, and community-building for individuals and families in need. Since 1970, Cornerstones has been a leading anchor organization in Northern Virginia, serving more than 25,900 households - including individuals and families with children -just in the past fiscal year. Our dedicated team connects people facing hardship with life-changing resources, tackling the root causes of homelessness and poverty to help build strong, stable families and a resilient community. Cornerstones is also a trusted advisor at the local, state, and national levels, championing policies and partnerships that expand affordable housing, invest in food security and the well-being of children and families, and drive systemic change to ensure everyone thrives in our community. To learn more about our programs or how you can get involved, visit Media Contacts:StarKist: Michelle Ford Faist / 571-441-8096 / Feed the Children: Kelly Frey / 405-945-4064 / Cornerstones: Margaret Anne Lara / 571-323-9575 / View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE StarKist Co. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Mayor
13-05-2025
- General
- Business Mayor
The Adobe Revival Is Here
It looked like a bucket brigade in the desert: a line of adobe builders passing 35-pound sun-dried bricks from one person to the next, hoisting them onto a scaffolding deck and setting them into the western wall of a house made of mud. The labor continued for hours on a dusty lot of a small college campus in northern New Mexico. It was hard work: more grueling than a daylong boot camp at your local gym. But no one here was complaining. 'It's therapeutic,' says Stephanie Camfield, a clinical social worker whose unofficial job on the project is 'mix master,' creating a mortar of clay, sand, and water that spun like bread dough inside a giant KitchenAid. 'It's about community and rhythm, feeling the sun move across the sky.' In 2010, Smithsonian Magazine predicted the revival of adobe construction, when it listed mud building as Number One among the '40 things you need to know about the next 40 years.' Today, that prediction is coming true—largely because adobe construction isn't only energy efficient and locally sustainable; it's fireproof. 'It's a renewable resource, it's a gift from the mountains,' says Jake Barrow, a historic preservationist who oversees the adobe demonstration house now under construction. The work is being done under the auspices of Cornerstones, a Santa Fe nonprofit that helps communities preserve their historic structures and keep traditional building methods alive. Scaffolding is added to an adobe structure, the focus of a recent workshop by New Mexico nonprofit Cornerstones. The 850-square-foot house on the edge of a struggling town in rural New Mexico—the Las Vegas you've never heard of—is a showcase for adobe in a burning world. In recent years, architects, engineers, and policy wonks from the likes of New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Syria have descended on New Mexico to study the revival of traditional earthen architecture. In exchange, they share the innovations that are emerging in their corners of the globe. Read More Midjourney Prompts for Website Design Inspiration The use of earth as a building material is as old as civilization. Its construction was traditionally a communal experience, with family and friends engaged in the making of bricks, the raising of walls and rafters (called vigas in the Southwest), and the singular skill of applying the plaster — a task typically left to women known as enjaradoras. Though Americans recognize the style as quintessential to the desert Southwest and the missions of California, there is not an inhabited part of the world without a history of earthen construction. Germany's stringent building codes now allow for up to six-story adobe buildings; schools, office buildings, and apartment buildings are rising from bricks made solely of mud and sand. The country's standards—all 250 pages—have been translated into English, due to overwhelming international interest, and will be available this summer. Until recently, California effectively banned adobe construction due to the risk of earthquakes. That longstanding policy now faces growing scrutiny: After 16,000 homes, buildings, and schools in Los Angeles burned to the ground in January, some property owners are looking to rebuild with fire-resistant materials. In response, officials have signaled a cautious openness to adobe, which, when exposed to intense heat, vitrifies and becomes firebrick. A formwork of adobe bricks lays in the sun to dry. A student working on the house pours water into cracks to seal the bricks. Another student trowels mud across a brick before placing another one, which will be leveled to the height of the pink string. Ben Loescher, a Los Angeles architect, has been working to change the nation's building codes since 2008. Two years ago, he obtained a permit for a legal adobe house in Pioneertown, a high desert community in San Bernardino County that was originally developed as an 1880s movie set for Hollywood Westerns. 'Now I'm concentrating on changing the codes and building up the ecosystem,' says Loescher. 'My end goal is not to build adobe homes per se, but to make it so everyone can do it.' Read More How Design works at Supabase Demand is such that he now fields a weekly call with 20 architects, engineers, and contractors across California and the Southwest, all of whom are poised to take advantage of Los Angeles's quest to rebuild. Jim Hallock, a Texas contractor, is one of them. 'I would be dumbfounded if they ever let anyone build out of wood in Los Angeles anymore,' says Hallock, who has already begun moving two hydraulic presses, a mixer, rollers, and block machines to Southern California. 'We're not fire resistant, we're fire proof. You can't burn an earth block.' There are other benefits. To hear evangelists tell it, there's a sense of being embraced by the elements in an adobe house. The air is sweet; the thick walls breathe, keeping the house cool in summer and warm in winter. Lisa Morey of Nova Terra, an earthen masonry manufacturer in Colorado, recalls the first time she ever slept inside an adobe house in New Zealand. 'I still love the simplicity of it,' she says. 'I liken it to wines that are made in certain vineyards. The bricks will have slightly different colors. My bricks are more peachy tan, because of the red clay soil here.' 'My end goal is not to build adobe homes per se, but to make it so everyone can do it.' —Ben Loescher, architect Morey's business today is as much about education as production. She owns a lot filled with enough mixers and compressors to produce half a million mud blocks a year. Her company, a start-up, is already shipping blocks to Utah, Missouri, California and beyond. She says she recently fielded inquiries from a national insurance company, curious to hear about adobe's fire-resistant quality. Read More This European Tiny Home Builder Has Its Sights Set on America In times of disaster and uncertainty, there's always been a renewal of interest in earthen construction, according to Ronald Rael, a visual artist and architect at the University of California Berkeley. Rael is the author of several books on adobe houses; his website, is regarded as a clearing house for information about earth building. 'We as human beings invented this construction 10,000 years ago and it's still responsive today,' says Rael, who produces adobe extrusions from a 3D printer. He likens the process to squeezing mud out of a tube of toothpaste: 'I'm skipping the entire mud brick making process, which can take up to weeks or months. I'm going straight to wall construction.' In March, he created Adobe Oasis, an art installation of ribbed earthen passageways—adobe walls that are 10-inches thick—at Desert X, an outdoor exhibition of contemporary art in California's Coachella Valley. A traditional technique, stacking bricks this way allows them to dry properly, and if it rains, lets water naturally run off. Forty miles away, one of Ben Loescher's clients is singlehandedly building the first permitted adobe house to rise in California since 2008. To make his dream happen, Rex Edhlund, 60, a former publisher and graphic designer from San Diego, is erecting a 900-square-foot house out of 7,500 bricks—with his own hands. Even so, he says, the most challenging part of the project was getting the approval from San Bernardino County. It took him and Loescher 17 months to get the permit approval. When it came, the onetime publisher still wasn't able to obtain a mortgage. 'This ancient construction is considered cutting edge so I couldn't get a construction loan,' he laughs. 'I ended up being the test-pilot on what is the first fully-permitted, legal adobe in San Bernardino County in years,' Edhlund says. 'It changed my life in many, many ways. Now, I'm hand-building the house. And the building is going to be the easy part.' Related Reading: READ SOURCE businessmayor May 12, 2025
