NEW CASTLE -- Students with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders or mental health issues will be able to participate in an Extended School Year program this summer offered by Lark Enterprises, Inc.To participate, students between the ages of 16 and 21 in Lawrence, Beaver, Butler and Mercer counties had to be found eligible by their school district and be placed in an Individual Education Program.

Lark Enterprises’ Shenango and Neshannock Township locations will offer the program from June 23 to August 14.

Program supervisors, Susan Lautenbacher (Lark's chief executive officer) and Wendy McCutcheon (Rehabilitation Services unit director) are beginning the program based on what they say is great need in the community for an ESY program.

Lautenbacher said the program is integral to the educational success of students who contend with these disorders.

“We want to maintain the skills and knowledge these students learned in special education,” Lautenbacher said. “We don’t want them to lose any of that over the summer and programs like that prevent that from happening as quickly as possible.”

Students in the program will engage in a variety of activities including production work, screen printing, cooking, janitorial working and recycling.

Each of the activities offered is designed to help students maintain their progress in areas such as functional academics, social skill development, community integration and employment skill development.

Lautenbacher said that without this maintenance, these students will fall behind and risk losing progress made during the school year.

Program specialists and a job coach will also work one on one with students to help them retain vocational skills through the organization’s prevocational program.

Assessments will then be conducted throughout the summer to ensure that progress is being made and that the student’s predetermined level of support is being met.

“We’re really working hard to develop strong transitional programming for these students so they can continue to meet success in the adult world,” Lautenbacher said.

The organization also provides similar services for adults with disabilities or individuals experiencing employment barriers, including vocational evaluations, training and employment services.

As adults, students from the ESY program can make use of these services, working with Lark staff to continue and maintain success in a workforce environment after leaving school.

More than 200 individuals have been using Lark’s services and supports annually to achieve real-work experience since 1957.

Organizers are expecting a smaller number of students for the ESY’s first year, but meeting the needs of the students, no matter the number, is what matters for them.

“How do you make sure that you don’t lose all that progress made during the school year,” Lautenbacher said. “That’s what we’re hoping to solve.”

For more information on Lark or the ESY program, call 724-658-5676.

Kansas City, MO, May 16, 2014- Visitors to the Extra Hands Services website, www.extrahandskc.com, will see a new dynamic design with updated features and functions for customers looking for commercial cleaning companies in the Kansas City area. The project’s overall goal was provide clear and compelling information about Extra Hand’s award winning janitorial and industrial cleaning services.

Extra Hands enlisted the services of WSI Internet Advantage to build the website. The primary object was to highlight what makes this commercial cleaning services company exceptional including:

• Total Customer Satisfaction Guarantee.
• High quality industrial janitorial services for all types of companies especially compliance based industries like medical facilities and food service.
• Efficient management systems that provide clear measurement, reporting and quality control.

Greg Stollsteimer, WSI Internet Advantage, worked with Extra Hands Services to create the website and incorporated proven fundamentals of marketing and communications. “This website launch is an extension of what this company is all about and that is customer service,” said Stollsteimer. “The team at Extra Hands has a unique commitment and pride in providing commercial janitorial services and the website reflects their professionalism and the range of services.”

Extra Hands Services’ focus on quality and value makes it the right commercial cleaning company for organizations where cleanliness is either required by regulation or a high priority for a company’s management. Managers, plant managers, distribution managers and purchasing managers who make decisions regarding janitorial services will find all of the information they need at www.extrahandskc.com.

For more information, contact James Davis, President at 816-994-8825 or james@extrahandskc.com.

Maple Shade, NJ -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/06/2014 -- Mac’s Janitorial Service, one of the leading janitorial companies in Philadelphia and New Jersey, is pleased to announce they are offering time-saving janitorial services this spring. The commercial cleaning company offers a wide variety of janitorial and maintenance services to businesses, organizations and private residences throughout Philadelphia and New Jersey that can save time, money and most of all, effort. By choosing to hire an external cleaning service, businesses realize that their time is freed up to concentrate on more profitable activities that directly relate to their business’ objective goals.

By hiring inside maintenance workers or cleaning staff, businesses will have to spend time supervising their work as well as provide insurance, employee benefits and added payroll. This can do more harm than good, considering all of those additions cost money. By hiring an external cleaning company, like Mac’s Janitorial Service, businesses just have to worry about paying the service, and let the service take care of the administrative and supervisory duties.

Mac’s Janitorial Service has celebrated over 55 years of being one of the leading New Jersey and Philadelphia janitorial companies because they keep their clients’ facilities clean and well-kept, while their clients focus on their business or organization. Over the years, business owners who own and operate out of offices, industrial buildings, warehouses, school/universities, apartment complexes and more, have turned to Mac’s Janitorial Service because they know they will not have to waste time supervising them. Clients understand that the company will provide the best commercial cleaning services possible.

By hiring the janitorial company, new clients will receive 10% off their first monthly bill. For more information about the services offered, please fill out the online contact form or call 856-231-9009 (NJ) or 215-792-2228 (PA).

About Mac’s Janitorial Services
As a leader in industrial cleaning services, Mac’s Janitorial Services has been providing Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia with premium commercial cleaning for over 55 years. Offering a wide range of janitorial and building maintenance services, the company will complete any task on time and under budget. Over the past forty years, the company has been able to expand its horizons and now offer generalized cleaning, complete floor maintenance, window washing, power washing, disaster cleanup and more. The company provides cleaning services for commercial properties located in Salem, Camden, Burlington and all of Gloucester County.

For more information, please visit http://www.macsjanitorial.com/.

Smartphone users in the greater Marlborough area will no longer have to switch to a desktop computer in order to book professional cleaning services for their home or business. Thanks to a new partnership with the online marketing specialists at Prospect Genius, locally owned cleaning service Maid For Home is launching a mobile version of its Web site, as well as an affiliated Internet marketing campaign. By making it easier for prospective customers to access its Web site on the go, Maid For Home hopes to give even more area residents the chance to experience its quality house and business cleaning services.

Maid For Home’s new mobile site will include all of the same information as the business’s desktop site and be designed to avoid the formatting issues that often result from viewing a desktop site on a mobile device. Home- and business owners in Marlborough will be able to learn about Maid For Home’s cleaning service offerings without encountering images that fail to load, text that’s too small to read, and other issues that can make browsing the Web on a smartphone difficult. Because approximately 65% of U.S. mobile subscribers now own a smartphone, according to a 2013 Nielsen report, launching a mobile site is a great way for a small business to target tech-savvy customers who prefer to do consumer research on a mobile device.

Prospect Genius is doing more than simply launching a mobile site on Maid For Home’s behalf, however. The marketing firm’s overall plan for Maid For Home also includes professional content creation, search engine optimization, and other tried-and-true Web advertising strategies. The ultimate goal is to ensure that when people in the Marlborough region are searching the Web for home or business cleaning services, they can quickly and easily find Maid For Home’s Web site and contact information.

“Many smartphone users prefer the convenience and speed of browsing the Web on their phone to using a desktop computer,” explains Matt Gallo, an Internet advertising strategist with Prospect Genius. “That’s why we create mobile sites for our clients. When implemented alongside SEO and other proven marketing tactics, a mobile site can help small businesses broaden their reach in their local community.”

Maid For Home offers an array of professional cleaning services for Marlborough-area home- and business owners. The company is licensed, bonded, and insured, and its employees have more than 50 years of experience on the job.

Maid For Home
Phone: (508) 433-1049
Address: Framingham, MA 01702
Web site: http://maidservices-marlborough.ma-biz.com/

Maid Naturally offers their diligent green cleaning services in Spokane, WA.

 Maid Naturally offers their diligent green cleaning services in Spokane, WA. This cleaning company provides only professional quality services. They are specially trained for cleaning services. Maid Naturally takes the strict precautions that one should expect from a reputable and reliable company. They are a licensed organization and insured company.

Talking about it, one of their representatives stated, “We have taken all the precautions that you would expect from a reputable company, like being fully licensed and bonded, as well as insured. Our cleaning service has professionally trained staffs that are educated and knowledgeable on company policies and procedures to protect you as well as them. Every week, every other week or monthly service, any of them are fine for us. We also offer one-time cleanings for parties or special events.”

Maid Naturally is a renowned name in the gamut of providing cleaning services. They offer the finest trained staffs to conduct any cleaning task. This cleaning company in Spokane pays special emphasis on staff training so they can offer flawless cleaning services. Besides practical training, the company also makes clear their vision and mission and applies it at each cleaning. The staff are fully acclimatized with the company’s policies and procedures.

Now, one can also have Green Maid Service in Spokane for special occasions, parties and events. Cleaning services for parties and events can consume a lot of valuable time. Therefore, hiring a professional entity for the cleaning job will save not only time, but also a huge level of energy.

About Maid Naturally
Maid Naturally is a unique Maid Service created in Spokane, WA. They vacuum clean and hand-wash all floors and baseboards and also clean windows. They have a full window service that they operate during the summer months. They are fully licensed and bonded, as well as insured. Their cleaning service has professionally trained staffs who are educated and knowledgeable about company policies and procedures. Every week, every other week or monthly service, any of them are fine for them. They also offer one-time cleanings for parties or special events.

To know more about them, please visit http://www.maidnaturally.com.

Toronto, Canada  April 30, 2014

Clean-Slate Janitorial Services (http://www.Clean-Slate.ca), a Greater Toronto Area-based professional cleaning company that specializes in commercial office cleaning, retail maintenance, floor restoration, carpet cleaning, and construction site cleanup, is weighing in on the efforts of the business world going digital to cut back on paper waste.
“The adoption of digital software not only helps the environment, but increases workplace efficiencies. It’s actually a great thing to see so many offices focused on going digital and cutting out the need for paper,” says Sam Panousis, owner and operator of Clean-Slate Janitorial Services. “Any steps that can collectively be taken to help the environment are certainly positive.”
But going digital does more than just help the environment. Toronto is building the first completely digital hospital in all of North America and they acknowledge that fewer errors will be made on the floor, patient charts will automatically be updated, and check-ins for surgery will all be done via a kiosk. Panousis adds that creating a more efficient and effective system is a benefit of going digital that will directly impact the productivity of businesses, making it an all-around positive move. (Source: “North America’s First All Digital Hospital is Coming to Toronto,” CBC web site, April 16, 2013; http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/news/north-americas-first-all-digital-hospital-humber-river.html)
Some companies are taking it one step further and encouraging mobile workspaces. Panousis explains that a system is set up in which all the necessary data is remotely accessible by the employee on whichever device they choose. This gives workers more flexibility when possible, and as long as assignments are completed, they can theoretically operate from anywhere. (Source: Lambert, N., “Can a Mobile Workspace Help Deliver the Paperless Office?” Wired web site, April 22, 2014; http://innovationinsights.wired.com/insights/2014/04/can-mobile-workspace-help-deliver-paperless-office/)
“As far as inside of the office, adopting digital technology makes it easier to keep workstations clean,” Panousis concludes. “And when office cleaning services are required, their focus can be on more significant issues, such as floor cleaning and buffing, or deep carpet cleaning for coffee or other hard-to-remove stains.”
Clean-Slate Janitorial Services has been serving commercial customers in the Greater Toronto Area, including downtown Toronto, Vaughan, Mississauga, Brampton, and Markham, for eight years. Services provided by Clean-Slate Janitorial Services include commercial office cleaning, retail management and janitorial services, floor restoration and buffing, carpet cleaning, window and blind cleaning, and construction site cleanup. To learn more about Clean-Slate Janitorial Services and to get a free quote, visit the company’s web site at http://www.Clean-Slate.ca or call 416-509-7454.

LAS VEGAS, Apr 29, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Air travelers in and out of Las Vegas now have an added measure of personal security in the form of an advanced cleaning technology. McCarran International Airport has installed Ecolab’s new Hydris TM cleaning system to help make the airport cleaner, safer and healthier for travelers and employees.

McCarran handles more than 42 million arrivals and departures annually, the nation’s ninth-highest passenger volume, which puts it in the top one percent of U.S. airports. On average, 115,000 people travel through the airport every day.

"We like the Hydris system because it generates three different solutions that are effective at cleaning and disinfecting our busy facility, but are also non-toxic, which is safer for our employees and the environment,” said Ralph LePore, assistant director, Terminal Operations Division for McCarran. “The system also helps us control costs with a monthly lease, reduced packaging waste and lower shipping expenses.”

A single Hydris unit dispenses three products: a one-step disinfectant; an all-purpose sanitizer and glass cleaner; and a multi-surface daily floor cleaner. The unit fits into a typical janitorial closet and utilizes advanced mineral tablet technology and water to generate the equivalent of 5,000 ready-to-use bottles of cleaner per one case of 200 tablets. Hydris provides great performance and value in a wide-range of large facilities, such as airports, college campuses and commercial buildings.

"Using Hydris is very simple," said Chris Steep, senior product development program leader for Ecolab’s Global Institutional business. "Mineral tablets inserted into the unit are mixed with filtered tap water to create a brine solution. This solution then flows through Ecolab’s three-chamber electrolytic cell, resulting in a product that is dispensed in the right amount and at the right dilution every time.”

Steep added that Hydris can generate a disinfectant solution with five-minute kill times for use as part of an infection prevention program or in response to flu or other outbreaks. The products are registered with the EPAi as effective at killing pathogens that include Influenza, Norovirus E.coli and MRSA (antibiotic-resistant bacteria), along with odor-causing bacteria. McCarran International Airport is among the first airport facilities to adopt the Hydris system.

McCarran’s janitorial supplier, WAXIE, introduced Hydris to the airport as an innovative option for achieving their cleaning and sanitizing goals.

“Hydris products are effective on a variety of surfacesii, including glass and mirrors, finished floors, wood laminate furniture, washable walls, stone, metals, kosher metals, plastics and melamine surfaces,” said Lou Richards, vice president and general manager of WAXIE Sanitary Supply. “Hydris provides McCarran a cost-effective alternative for effective cleaning that protects health without harming the environment.”

“Our challenges are our customers’ challenges – and they look to us to provide solutions that help drive overall operational efficiencies,” said Rick Johns, executive vice president and general manager of Ecolab’s Institutional business in North America. “We’re experts at developing products and programs that solve our customers’ issues, but that’s not enough. It’s our field sales-and-service associates who deliver value our customers, like McCarran, have come to expect.”

Hydris recently earned a 2013 Tekne Award from the Minnesota High Tech Association for its impact on the industry. For more information about Hydris and other Ecolab commercial cleaning solutions, visit www.ecolab.com/hydris .

About Ecolab
A trusted partner at more than one million customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services that protect people and vital resources. With 2013 sales of $13 billion and 45,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions and on-site service to promote safe food, maintain clean environments, optimize water and energy use and improve operational efficiencies for customers in the food, healthcare, energy, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 171 countries around the world. For more Ecolab news and information, visit www.ecolab.com ; follow us on Twitter @ecolab or Facebook at facebook.com/ecolab .

About WAXIE Sanitary Supply
WAXIE Sanitary Supply is an industry leader in the distribution of sanitary products and janitorial supplies and equipment to commercial, industrial, contractor and institutional markets. Based in San Diego, Calif., the company operates 20 inventory centers in nine Western U.S. states where more than 800 employees serve approximately 25,000 customers. Visit www.waxie.com for more information.

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i The product is registered with EPA as an antimicrobial product. The registration number is 1677-241. http://iaspub.epa.gov/apex/pesticides/f?p=PPLS:8:15914922264510::NO::P8_PUID,P8_RINUM:511821,1677-241

ii Product claims are registered with U.S. EPA and an updated label may be in review with state agencies. Please review product label for Claims and Directions for Use.

SOURCE: Ecolab Inc.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass., April 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Duct & Vent Cleaning of America, Inc. was founded in April of 1989 to address the emerging need for commercial and residential duct cleaning services. From humble beginnings with 80-hour work weeks, President Michael Vinick worked diligently to educate consumers on the importance of maintaining indoor air quality by offering the highest-quality cleaning, inspection, maintenance, and restoration of ductwork.

In February of 1990, barely a year after it was founded, Duct & Vent Cleaning of America, Inc. joined NADCA, the HVAC Inspection, Maintenance and Restoration Association. Upon joining NADCA, Duct & Vent Cleaning of America, Inc. was informed they were the first company to join who used portable HEPA vacuums in the cleaning process. This milestone was the first by a company to recognize the need for the highest quality work.

During Duct & Vent Cleaning of America, Inc.'s first 25 years of business, many milestones have been reached. Vinick's devotion to fairness, honesty and a global perspective have allowed the company to grow its reputation by providing highly-certified, reliable, quality service for duct cleaning, inspection, maintenance, and restoration of duct work. Duct & Vent Cleaning of America, Inc. moved the corporate office twice to accommodate its growth. The last move in 2002 resulted in the development of a corporate office in Springfield, MA. Duct & Vent Cleaning of America, Inc.'s professional reputation and physical coverage has resulted in work being performed all over the country.

Today, Duct & Vent Cleaning of America, Inc. is proud to have a client list which includes government agencies, municipalities, state governments, Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, health care facilities, universities, colleges and homeowners. Duct & Vent Cleaning of America, Inc. understands how to enhance the overall effectiveness of the duct cleaning service, and provides added indoor air quality related services specifically related to HVAC inspection, maintenance and restoration.

For more information or to request a quote, contact Duct & Vent Cleaning of America, Inc. at (800) 442-8368.

CONTACT: Michael Vinick (800) 442-8368