Caddo Parish School Board wants kids to understand the importance of washing their hands and healthy hygiene habits.

That why Tim Graham, director of purchasing for the district, said the Clean Hands Campaign is such a great initiative.

The school assemblies, designed to teach kindergarten through third-graders about when and how often to wash their hands, is held at no charge through a partnership with Carefree Janitorial Supply and Symmetry, a division of Buckeye International.

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A rally was held outside City Hall Wednesday to urge the Department of Education to come clean about health risks in public schools.

Community leaders say PCB chemicals, which pose serious risk to brain development, are leaking in most public schools.

Elected officials said they are pushing a bill requiring the DOE to notify parents of any contamination and post the results on their website.

"We have a lawsuit against the city on this matter because they have proposed a 10-year timeline. That's a completely ridiculous period of time," said Miranda Massie of New York Lawyers For Public Interest. "This problem must be solved in a much shorter time frame."

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The Evening News launched its Graffitibusters campaign in a bid to try to combat the growing number of illegal graffiti tags which are blighting this fine city.

The campaign, which is being supported by Norwich police, Central Norwich Citizens’ Forum, Norwich City Council and the Norwich City Centre Partnership, has urged people to donate money, paint or time to help keep the streets clean.

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Constable Vincent DeAngelis, recently returned socio-community officer at the station which serves Côte St. Luc, Hampstead and Montreal West, told The Suburban last week that a Greek woman had solicited her services for cleaning homes, and even said she had references.

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Online PR News – 07-September-2011 –St Petersburg, FL, 06 September 2011: Small offices in need of professional cleaning services now have to pay far less to keep their facilities spotless. i-Clean America, a renowned janitorial service operating in the US, now provides office cleaning services for $199 per month only. Armed with building maintenance equipment and commercial janitorial supplies, the company provides unsurpassed cleaning services.

Backing their unmatched prices, a senior executive of the company stated, “i-Clean America takes pride in providing the best janitorial services in the industry at the most competitive prices. If at any point in time during or after entering into a contract with i-Clean where you receive a quote lower than what you are paying, i-Clean will either match the price or cancel the services with no penalties.”

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After a lengthy research and development process and multiple patent applications, lotus pro now includes a Series I or Series II Ozone Stabilization Module with each High Capacity chemical-free cleaning unit shipped. The standard Series I Module and the more powerful Series II option extend the lifetime of dirt and germ killing Aqueous Ozone levels by a factor of hours, rather than minutes.

“The beauty of Aqueous Ozone is that it cleans and kills germs and then over time turns back into water and oxygen,” explains Tersano President and lotus PRO inventor Steve Hengsperger. “The problem was that it turned back too fast, losing it's sanitizing power in a matter of minutes. We've solved this problem with our Series I and Series II modules, achieving up 24 hours of sanitizing strength under laboratory conditions with the Series II.”

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The Supreme Judicial Court has ruled in a high-profile Wage Act suit that a cleaning services company that claimed it was merely in the business of selling franchises misclassified its franchisees as independent contractors.

The defendant company, Coverall North America Inc., argued in part that it had a shared economic interest with the third-party franchisees and therefore did not violate G.L.c. 149, §148B.

But Justice Margot G. Botsford, writing for the court, disagreed.

“[W]e address ‘franchise fees,’ i.e., the initial and additional fees that [plaintiff Anthony] Graffeo agreed to pay Coverall in order to enter into what the judge has determined to be a direct employment relationship with Coverall,” she wrote. “In substance, they operate to require employees to buy their jobs from employers, and in that respect we think they violate public policy.”

The SJC was also asked to rule on whether, under the Wage Act, an employer and an employee can agree that the employee will pay the cost of workers’ compensation and other work-related insurance coverage.

“We conclude that … an employer may not deduct

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Irene came and went but the damage she wrought lingers.

Across Staten Island yesterday, residents donned waterproof boots and descended into flooded basements, or called tree services and roofers to repair damage to their property. Leaf blowers, chainsaws and generators were humming on seemingly every other street.

"It's unbelievable," said Christopher Hague, as he surveyed his flooded yard and basement in Ocean Breeze. "There's no power, either." For many, no power meant no sump pumps -- which meant basements full of water

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WOBURN, MA -- Daimer Industries, Inc.®, a large-scale provider of extraction systems to janitorial specialists worldwide, expects to offer its latest wand technology with the most advanced versions of its XTreme Power® 9200, 9250, 9300 and 9350 carpet cleaning machines. The 60 Hz 9200 and 9300 offer as much as 300 psi of pressure while the 50 Hz 9250 and 9350 offer as much as 21 bar of pressure. The wand design will include new technology that allows it to increase vacuum power by nearly 40 percent, Daimer® say

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It was just one year since Jagath started his Janitorial Services Company.  He was shaping up well ahead of tough competition with rapidly growing customer base when the first disaster struck him from nowhere. His star salesman has given his letter of resignation.

 “Don’t let panic set in,” I advised him when he called me. “Whether your departing employee was a strong or mediocre performer, this is your opportunity to take a hard look at your recruitment policy.  Maybe this is the time to reorganize, reclassify, or make other major changes”.

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