Furnishing the Homeless Community as a Part of Business
Christmas Wish: Dignity and a Real Home. In New York City?where the average apartment sells for over $1 million?a record 9,000 families, 16,000 of them children, are homeless today.
And families leaving the shelters for new, permanent homes rarely have the income to buy home furnishings.
Because FlatRate Moving believes that an apartment without furniture is simply not a home, they are teaming up with The Partnership for the Homeless to pick up furniture from giving donors and delivering it to needy families.
This means those who need it will get the furniture ? sofas, dressers, chairs, tables, desks, and other necessities--to make their homes a real home.The Partnership's furniture bank, Furnish a Future, helps transform empty apartments into comfortable, secure homes for thousands of formerly homeless families and individuals each year.
This holiday season, FlatRate is aiding The Partnership with the very services they make their business from every day.
FlatRate's moving trucks will be sent out across the boroughs, collecting new and gently-used furniture that their owners no longer want.
FlatRate will transport the furniture to The Partnership's warehouse, and also help deliver them to families in need.
General Manager Eric Kleper said, "If we can put smiles on even one family's faces this holiday season, that's making a difference."By partnering with this nonprofit organization, FlatRate has committed dozens of trucks and even more drivers, movers and coordinators to help move the furniture so many need.
The organization will help FlatRate connect with the extremely low-income families who so desperately need home furnishings.
Furthermore, FlatRate hopes to keep this Program as part of their business year-round, by continuing to donate good quality, unwanted furniture to The Partnership for the Homeless. New Yorkers are urged to donate unwanted pieces of furniture in good condition at: http://www.flatrate.com/donations.Sharone Ben-Harosh, who founded FlatRate Moving in 1991, says, "I came over from Israel and started this business on my own. On the way, there were so many people who touched my life, helping my business along.
Now, it's my turn to give back."???"Thanks to FlatRate Moving's generous contribution of trucks, drivers and many additional resources, thousands of New York City's once-homeless children will be able to sit down at a table for dinner, read a book on the family sofa, or study at their own desk?activities that most of us take for granted," said Arnold S. Cohen, President & CEO of The Partnership for the Homeless.Contact: About The Cannon Group The Cannon Group (www.thecannongroup.us) is a New York based public relations agency that focuses on a wide range of activities for its clients to develop and implement the strategies they need to increase awareness and drive business metrics..
Unneccessarily Changing Fuel Filters Costs Money--Start Saving Money Today With a Detroit Diesel Fuel Pro Filter
(ContentDesk) August 7, 2005 -- Detroit Diesel chose to offer this product as an extended service Interval option on the S60 engines.
The Fuel Pro system offers a single fuel filter/water separator that replaces the primary and secondary fuel filters that come standard on the engine.
This means instead of changing 2 filters at the normal PM, the customer only changes a single filter element and in many cases is enjoying twice the filter life when compared to the standard filters.This product line offers the distributor/dealer potential retrofit opportunities for all classes of trucks, tour coaches, transit busses and motor homes.
The units have a very short payback period and then continue to save the customer money for years to come.
The customer only changes his filter element when the fuel reaches the top of the filter.
This is the Davco patented "Seeing is Believing" technology.Davco Technology provides technical expertise for all kinds...
Unneccessarily Changing Fuel Filters Costs Money--Start Saving Money Today With a Detroit Diesel Fuel Pro Filter
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Can Ford Heavy-Duty Trucks Alleviate Its Maker's Standing?
Ford Motor Co. is delivering an updated lineup of F-Series large pickups and trucks. This 'Super Duty' lineup is said to support Ford in its struggle to keep up its post in truck sales. With the debut of these all-new vehicles, Ford will serve as a mighty rival to General Motors Corp.
GMC is also unraveling a brand-new pickup - Chevrolet Silverado.
Said model is considered a threat that could take away part of Ford F-150 sales. So far, said model is the best-selling vehicle in the US. In the past few years, Ford has sold approximately 900,000 F-Series trucks annually.
Moreover, 40 percent of F-series trucks sold are Super Duty trucks.
New trucks is given extra towing capacity, refined suspension, a tailgate that turns into a step, and a brand new 6.4-liter diesel engine.
These fresh features are incorporated to Ford F-150 pickup parts...
Can Ford Heavy-Duty Trucks Alleviate Its Maker's Standing?
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His Toy, Her Toy
I remember when my daughter was born. Visions of her and I dressed in pinks and purples sitting in her lacy pink room playing dolls danced threw my head. A year later my son was born ;My husbands vision of sports and trucks revved around like mad men threw his manly mind.Those dreams were simply that dreams. Little did I know there are lessons for parents to learn about children's toys and who are children will be.My daughter plays with dolls. She plays with clay and gets her hands dirty.
She plays in the dirt, climbs trees and races her trucks around .,he plays kick ball , base ball and can run as fast as any boy.My son plays with trucks and builds with blocks, he colors and plays ps2 and he plays house with my girls rocking babies and feeding them.There was a time my husband would bark to my son "Put down that doll!" until we came to the realization that play is really a child's preparation for real life. Our daughter was learning sportsmanship and
how to be a team...
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Dog Safety
Summer is coming and more and more people are putting the tops down on their convertibles, letting their dogs get fresh air out of an open automobile window, or letting the dear dog ride in the back of an open pickup truck.This seems like a great idea and dogs do love the wind in their fur; but! It can be a very dangerous thing to allow your dog to do. Cigarettes thrown out of windows, rocks falling from construction trucks, stones being kicked up by cars and blowing sand can all be very harmful to your dogs well being. Your poor pup can land at the vet due to sand or rocks in the eye, or debris in their nose. Dogs in open pick up trucks seldom jump out but could be thrown from a vehicle if it turned suddenly to miss something in the road or if the brakes were to be jammed on quickly. If left in the vehicle when parked, passersby could antagonize your dog and provoke him/her to be nasty or to jump out of the vehicle.
Next time you are inclined to let your dog hang out of a window...
Dog Safety
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