| Pepitone Joins Graef
Joseph Pepitone Jr., ASLA, has joined the Milwaukee office of Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer & Associates, Inc., as a landscape architect. Pepitone's career includes more than 21 years of experience in landscape architecture and planning. His project management background and award-winning design skills have enabled Pepitone to provide clients with solutions for educational campuses, health care facilities, industrial sites, retail, and residential developments, as well as religious and recreational facilities throughout his career. He is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architecture and the American Planning Association. .
Artist's exhibition is inspired by Ireland
CAPTURING the brooding atmosphere of his subjects perfectly, artist Ray Evans is currently exhibiting some of his more recent paintings in the Creasey and Portico galleries at Salisbury library. This is the first time that these particular works have been seen in the artist's home city and their striking beauty makes a real impact in the gallery space. And if you are more familiar with Ray Evans' illustrations, you will be in for a surprise. Inspired by a visit to Ireland in 1995, where he found the people and landscapes captivating, Ray says: "It changed my outlook on landscape and subsequently I started painting like this with solid acrylic colour and collage rather than watercolour. It changed my style so utterly. "I just love the rock of the western coast of Ireland.
Significant Changes Predicted in the Media Landscape
Convergence - that buzzword still bouncing around the halls of media and telecoms companies - is truly emerging from abstract jargon to reality, says independent market analyst Datamonitor (DTM.L).
London, UK, March 22, 2007 (XTVWorld.Com) -- In a report just published, "2007 Trends to Watch: Media and Broadcasting Technology," Datamonitor says consumers are adopting technologies and services that blur the boundaries between entertainment and communication. These developments says Datamonitor, affect both players within the market and those supporting it. Datamonitor stresses that the ultimately, the driving force for the adoption of technologies in the media and broadcasting sector is notably determined by the level of consumer demand and acceptance of new services and not by how good the media technology looks.
Tiny shack an oasis in confusing world of taxes
The words are lit in neon. Behind the sign stands a tiny shack of unfinished pine, just off State Road 674 and next to a car lot. Inside, there are green ruffled curtains on the tiny windows and instructions in English and Spanish tacked to the walls. It's a far cry from H&R Block but hundreds of Wimauma residents have relied on Tax Land for years. It's an institution. On Tuesday, Tax Day, they were still coming, offering up their documents to Yolanda Gomez, 32, and Elma Velasquez, 36. "We're the cheapest place around," Velasquez said. "We know that for a fact." The price per tax return: $55. Eighty percent of their clients are Hispanic, Velasquez said. Many of them are self-employed: farm workers, truckers, landscapers.
Kennebunkport town news
Clare Ansberry writes, "Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes." If you enjoy both gardening and the Graves Library, volunteer to help renovate the Library gardens and to assist in maintaining the garden beds. Call the Library at 967-2778 if you'd like to help. The Artistic Garden Speaking of gardens, Carol Galli and Judith Kinsman will present, "Creating the Artistic Garden," on Sunday, April 22, at 2 p.m. As the proprietress of the gardening business Grandiflora Exteriors, Carol Galli has brought her skill and enthusiasm to landscapes up and down the coast of Southern Maine. Local artist Judith Kinsman will join Galli for a talk on both design and planting an artistic garden, and the art of painting that garden. Kinsman, a member of the Art Guild of the Kennebunks and Maine Women of the Arts, will show slides of the watercolors she has painted based on Galli's gardens.
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