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The stock market changed little yesterday, with the VN-Index rising a slight 0.76 point to close at 510.08. One fund, VF1, and 16 stocks were traded down, while 18 stocks were up and 15 others stood unchanged. Two stocks beating the ceiling yesterday were DPC and PMS, while RHC saw no trade. Local and foreign investors centered on blue chips such as REE with 210,990 shares changing hands, VSH with 162,800 traded, STB with 160,300 shares, VF1 with 148,490 shares and VFC with 142,350 shares. Foreign investors spent VND7.6 billion buying 123,590 shares, while they sold 112,260 shares for VND4.5 billion. After hours, foreigners bought 100,000 GMD worth VND8.32 billion from local investors, who traded 40,000 VFC at VND32,800 per share and 19,000 BT6 at VND46,700 per share among themselves.
What: Annual Parade of Homes hosted by the Home Builders Association of Charlotte. Tour features more than 100 homes, priced from $134,000 to more than $2.5 million. Some are furnished models.When: Final weekend. Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. today, 1-6 p.m. Sunday. Where: Mecklenburg and surrounding counties. Plan books with maps and directions available at participating Bi-Lo, Lowes Foods and Harris Teeter stores. Books also available at all featured homes. Admission: The tour is free and self-guided, so you can start at any home. Information -- including list of participating builders -- www.hbacharlotte.com. Symphony designer showcase What: 35th annual Symphony Guild ASID Designer House, featuring rooms by more than a dozen of the area's top interior designers.
Even counting the school district employees and their family members who attended the bond issue meeting in Beatty Oct. 4, the turnout was disappointing. Some people commented that it was not adequately publicized, although flyers were posted and sent home with students. School board President Deborah Wescoatt conducted the meeting, starting out by showing a video of school board members and administrators visited to gather ideas for construction of the new high school and two elementary facilities planned for Pahrump. Wescoatt explained that permanent modular construction, which consists of units constructed in the contractor's own plant and then installed on concrete slabs could save the district considerable time and money. Using this approach, she said they should be able to have Floyd Elementary, which will be built using the last of the previous bond issue money, ready to open in August 2007.
They shade the rocky side streets of this town of 1,200 people just outside the reach of a sprawling metropolitan Des Moines, the falling leaves adding to its small-town charm.
First, Dutch elm disease killed many of the trees on Main Street in the 1970s, a signal of struggle ahead facing small Iowa towns.
Then last year, a vicious and surprising November tornado ripped through the southern edge of Woodward, ripping apart 40 homes and laying waste to many of the tall, leafy sentinels that make any prairie town feel warm and protected from the winds.
On Saturday, trees will symbolize new growth. Nearly 200 trees will be planted by newly inspired volunteers along a mile-long stretch of Iowa Highway 210, Woodward's front entrance.
Among the volunteers will be a family whose home was destroyed by the tornado, a family whose father and grandfather died two months ago while helping clean up the community, a student who doesn't have much but is willing to give and an elderly man who for years traveled the same stretch of road on his bicycle picking up garbage.
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