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63 to lose
jobs when Siler City industry closes
By Angela Delp
A
longstanding Siler City company will be closing its doors in
January, leaving its nearly 60 employees without jobs.
Officials
with Coleman Cable, 1311 N 2nd Avenue, Siler City, which employs
more than 60 people, last week announced the company’s plans to
close its local operations.
On Monday,
November 13, the corporation approved a plan to close the Siler City
manufacturing plant and to sell the building and property.
Coleman Cable
officials decided to partially relocate their production to the
company’s plants in Hayesville, N.C. and Waukegan, Ill. to enhance
manufacturing assets.
Coleman Cable
estimates the cost of closure and relocation to be approximately
$0.9 million, which includes cash expenditures of $0.1 million for
severance costs and $0.8 million for other costs related to the
closing.
The company
expects the closing to be complete by the end of the first quarter
of 2007.
"I am sad to
hear of this closing that will affect a number of our citizens
employment," town manager Joel Brower said in an interview last
week.
more- See Thursday,
November 23
paper:
Vol 86, No. 51
Future of county EDC uncertain
By Joseph
Pardington
With Election
Day just passed and swearing in ceremonies less than a month away,
the Chatham County Board of Commissioners-elect have already made an
impact on at least two people and perhaps another board altogether.
Both Jennifer
Andrews and Paul McCoy announced on November 14 their respective
resignations from the Chatham County Economic Development
Corporation’s Board of Trustees. A day later, EDC chairman Jerry
Harris resigned.
Their reasons
for quitting were linked.
McCoy and
Andrews said they expected to be removed or weakened by the newly
elected commissioners George Lucier, Tom Vanderbeck and Carl
Thompson.
Andrews and
McCoy both said they were unwilling to be publicly embarrassed at
the next meeting. Both expressed disappointment about the lack of
adequate budget at EDC.
more- See Thursday,
November 23
paper:
Vol 86, No. 51 |
Jeff Davis photos
One way or
another . .
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Fall means leaves, and leaves
mean raking, or blowing or vacuuming, or just about any ways or
means to get them up. In the top photo Siler City employees use
their vacuum to get rid of leaves a town resident has raked up. In
the bottom photo Elvin Linebery blows leaves up in his yard in Siler
City, getting them ready for pickup. With the recent rain and wind,
there shouldn’t be many more leaves on the trees.
Will these leaves ever leave?
High winds
and rainfall have helped bring fall leaves to the ground.
Residents on
the north side of Raleigh Street receive a leaf pick up on Monday
and Tuesday.
On Wednesday
and Thursday leaves are collected on the south side of Raleigh
Street. Friday is a catch up date for leaf collection in heavily
congested areas.
Leaves should
be placed in neat piles at the edge of the street (not in the
street) where they will be accessible to the vacuum machine.
"We’ve had a
lot of rain and wind, so a lot of the leaves fell at once," said
town manager Joel Brower. "We’ve got crews working. When they all
fall at once it’s hard to collect them as quickly as our citizens
would like."
Foreign
objects such as sticks, rocks and trash must be removed from the
loose leaves and piled separately for later collection.
Leaves in bags placed at the
street will be picked up on our routine schedule.
more- See Thursday,
November 16
paper:
Vol 86, No. 50 |
