ADDISON, Ala.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Cavalier Homes, Inc. (NYSE Amex: CAV) today announced that it has completed the merger of the Company with Southern Energy Homes, Inc
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Barry Donnell, who has spent his entire business life in the manufactured housing industry, Tuesday joined the ranks of the retired. The business the lifelong Wichita Falls resident founded in 1984 — Cavalier Homes — merged with Southern Energy …
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Every fall all over the country, people are reaching for the thermostat; it’s the first sign of winter. You get out of bed in the morning, and as soon as your feet hit the cold floor, you crank up the thermostat expecting warm air to follow shortly. Sadly for some all that comes out is a continuous blast of cold air. The furnace has failed to ignite and the blower is making sure there is no combustible gas remaining in the burner chamber.
Many people think that all that is required to prepare for winter is to install new furnace filters. This will indeed reduce the amount of dust being circulated through the house. However it’s not the only item to be considered when preparing your furnace for the heating season.
In many mobile homes the furnace is located in a small area behind a door that seldom gets opened throughout the year. The door usually has louvers to allow air flow as the furnace requires a cold air return to circulate heated air. This small room is a terrific dust collector that requires cleaning at least once a year. A canister vacuum cleaner is ideal for this chore. The front panel of the furnace usually houses the furnace filters. This panel itself also becomes very dirty and requires annual cleaning. The filters are located on the interior side of this panel. They should be replaced at least twice a year. Replacements are very inexpensive many cost less than $1.00 each.
Some furnaces require two filters, some only one. The wise shopper will pick up enough filters to accommodate the midseason filter replacement as sometimes stores sell out of furnace filters shortly after the season begins. By midwinter they are unlikely to order more.
If you have a fuel oil furnace it should have the burning chamber cleaned annually as well. Today’s modern natural gas furnaces burn very cleanly and you can usually go a few years between cleanings of the burning chamber. Propane doesn’t burn as cleanly as natural gas and may need cleaning more often.
Today’s gas furnace uses an igniter element to light the fire. This igniter is very brittle and easily broken. If when starting your furnace for the first time of the season it fails to light ,refer to the owner’s Manual for instructions on how to troubleshoot the igniter. Coleman gas furnaces rely on a blinking warning light located on the electonic circuit board to indicate there’ a problem with the igniter.
If you have average handyman capabilities changing the igniter is fairly easy. It takes only a few tools and the cost of the igniter should be about $75.00 or less.
When handling the new igniter do not touch the igniter element during installation. As stated earlier it ’s very fragile and the oil from human hands is enough to cause them to fail in short order. Changing the igniter element as a preventative measure is not necessary. If the furnace ignites properly the first time you try it, you can assume there is nothing wrong with it.
The wise mobile home owner will turn on their furnace and set the thermostat high enough for it to ignite allowing the furnace to run a complete cycle and shut off well before the cold air of winter arrives. If a problem is to be discovered better sooner rather than later when the cold winter air has arrived. The cost of calling a serviceman is much higher during the winter months when maintaining heat in your mobile home is critical.
A little preventative maintenance will go a long way in keeping your mobile home warm and toasty this winter.
In hard times like these come the heartbreaking sights of poverty and joblessness. Fortunately, hard times also inspire innovation, often coming from the most surprising sources. CNN reported on Revenge of the Nerds movie producer Peter Samuelson’s desire to help the homeless by providing them with something they lack: a home.
The makeshift home, called an EDAR (Everyone Deserves A Roof), was first thought of by Samuelson as he took bike rides from Los Angeles to the Santa Monica beach. During those rides, he not only saw the homeless, but he saw how their numbers were growing. So instead of pedaling faster, he stopped to talk to them. He talked to about 62 people and asked them what their needs were and what they wanted most. What they wanted most was shelter.
Samuelson went to work. He joined with Pasadena Art Center College of Design and produced a design contest to create a contraption that would suit the needs of the homeless. After the winning design was chosen, Samuelson used money out of his own pocket and donations to create the first batch of EDARS. The contraption costs $500 to make and is currently being distributed in the Los Angeles area.
For the homeless who have an EDAR, it’s a dream come true. The home is a tent, with a flame-resistant, heavy khaki canvas to keep out the rain. Once its owner is stationary, it can be spread out, extending to its full length of 86 inches and 32 inches wide. Inside this mobile home is a mattress and sleeping bag, luxuries for those who have been sleeping on the street. The home has four wheels, is small enough to fit through a doorway, comes with a braking mechanism to keep it from rolling away and a chain and padlock to prevent stealing.
So far, 60 units have been handed out and 110 units have been ordered. The units will be distributed to the shelters, as well as churches and organizations that help the homeless.
The EDAR and the enthusiasm behind the project is encouraging, especially with the destitution wrought by recession and innumerable home foreclosures. Tent cities that haven’t been seen since the Great Depression have been rising all across the country, especially in places like Los Angeles and Sacramento.
In a photo essay done by MSNBC, they reported that a tent city in Sacramento is in almost the same location along the American River as a tent city that developed during the Depression in 1936. According to MSNBC, the current Sacramento tent city holds more than 1,200 and is growing by 50 people a week.
Peter Samuelson told CNN, “People talk about the homeless as if it’s some homogeneous group of drunken, unemployed, too-lazy-to-get-a-job men. They’re totally wrong. They need to come meet people. What’s the point in having a society if it’s devoid of helping people less fortunate?”
One thing is certain, in these hard times, the EDAR and the people behind it are very much needed.
Ted Rowlands and Wayne Drash, Tents on Wheels Give Homeless People Roof and Pride, CNN.com
Sacramento Tent City, MSNBC
ADDISON, Ala. (AP) - Federal regulators have completed their review of Southern Energy Homes Inc.’s plans to purchase Cavalier Homes Inc. and the deal is now expected to close Sept
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close of business Tuesday. Under terms of the merger, Cavalier’s stockholders will receive $2.75 in cash for each share they own. BNY Mellon Shareowner Services has been appointed paying agent and will notify former Cavalier stockholders in the near …
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Shannon Brackett and her husband Phil moved back into their trailer at Reed Station Mobile Home Park in Carbondale on Saturday and began the process of waiting for the insurance adjusters, for both cars and the trailer itself.
The mobile home sits about 42 inches off the ground and the water was only about three feet deep in their part of the trailer park. They know the underpinning of the trailer was damaged, but they won’t know how badly until the insurance inspection is completed. That could be done today, which would be good, since the next round of rainfall is supposed to begin tonight.
The National Weather Service forecast calls for 2 to 3 inches of rain over the next three days and right now, the NWS is of the opinion that it is unlikely the new rain will affect the water levels in the flood zones. And, the rivers generally crested at levels lower than the forecasts.
But Southern Illinois is far from out of danger. In Grand Tower, a community of about 1,000 people along the Mississippi River bottoms, much of the fertile farmland is under water. On Friday, the mayor issued a voluntary evacuation order because the levees that hold back the Big Muddy River and the Mississippi River were showing signs of slippage.
Slippage generally occurs when an earthen levee becomes so saturated with water that the top layers of soil begin to slip off, in a sort of mudslide. Then, tiny trickles of water begins to weave their way through the levee and each little stream carries a bit of soil with it, rapidly enlarging the hole in the levee.
These levees survived the 1993 Mississippi River flood intact, but stressed. On Friday, it looked as though they might not make it through this onslaught.
With supervision from the Army Corps of Engineers , the levee was sandbagged and areas with slippage were patched and as long as the river levels do not stay high for a long period of time, the community should be safe. Residents who left during the evacuation generally returned home Sunday.
On the other side of the state, about 75 miles east of Grand Tower, the city of Harrisburg is fighting high water from another river, the Ohio. City leaders report that it isn’t the worst flood the city has sustained over the years, but it’s pretty bad. Early estimates are that businesses in the community suffered $4 million in lost. Monday, after being closed for a week, the Wal-Mart was able to reopen; the Kroger grocery store remains closed with an estimated 30 inches of water still in the parking lot.
The Little Egypt Network of the American Red Cross is out helping flood victims and still has two emergency shelters operational. On Monday, the Red Cross volunteers went door to door at the mobile home park handing out cleaning supplies and letting residents know where to apply for additional assistance. Those who were displaced can get a daily stipend for the time they were out of their homes to help cover the cost of food and other necessities that they had to buy while displaced.
Or, like resident Brenna Carriger, to replace the refrigerator full of food that she lost in the storm. Carriger was out of her home until Sunday night after the evacuation last Wednesday and the power was out for four of those days. Nothing in the fridge or small freezer could be salvaged.
“I don’t have to be a refugee anymore,” Carriger said. “I can sleep in my own bed again, at least until the rain starts on Wednesday.”
