| MIDDAY BUSINESS REPORT: Wyco center has jobs aplenty
Several job fairs and mass interview sessions are planned in the next few weeks. Dennis McGovern, general manager of the fast-growing shopping and entertainment destination in Wyandotte County, estimates there are about 700 job openings. Target, which is scheduled to open at The Legends in October, has opened a temporary hiring office at 350 Speedway Blvd., and will conduct walk-in interviews from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 10, and Friday, Aug. 11, and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 12. The site is next to the Kansas Speedway offices, just off Interstate 70. Billed as a "mass hiring event," the Target event illustrates the challenges of staffing 19 new stores and restaurants that have opened at The Legends just since April, McGovern said. "Now, some of the college and high school kids that had been hired are going back to school, so we have more openings again," he said.
New areas added to asbestos map
Local air quality officials have released a new, detailed map of where asbestos might be found in eastern Sacramento County. The map shows for the first time areas in eastern Sacramento County where the naturally occurring, but potentially hazardous, substance could be unearthed. Together with earlier maps of El Dorado and Placer counties, it completes a portrait of where asbestos is likely to be found in the Sacramento region. .
Victims free to sue decades later
VICTIMS of childhood sexual assault, medical negligence and workplace accidents could now sue for damages decades after the event, following a landmark High Court decision that will force former ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark to defend claims he led the 1971 pack-rape of a 16-year-old girl. Carol Stingel was "over the moon" yesterday with the court judgment clearing the way for her to sue the Aboriginal leader despite 35 years passing since the alleged attack. It will be the first time Mr Clark has had to respond to the rape allegations, as no criminal case was ever mounted and he has waged a constant battle to strike Ms Stingel's claim out of the Victorian courts. The decision significantly expands the number of cases that can now proceed even if the legal time limits for taking court action have expired.
Charity's a winner
March Air Cadets, staff and civilian committee members joined up to Race for Life at Cambridge and raised more than £700 for the charity. Despite sweltering conditions everyone completed the course in under 50 minutes.Two cadets were in the first three under 16s to complete the course. Male cadets and staff who had come along to support worked as volunteers at the finishing line handing out the medals, bags and drinks.The 1220 (March) Squadron is actively recruiting. Parade nights at the squadron's headquarters in Gas Road, March, are Tuesday and Fridays (7-9.30pm). If you are aged between 13 and 17 visit the website at www.1220atc.org.uk or call 01354 651788. .
Economist Louis Winnick dies at 85
MANHASSET, N.Y. | Louis Winnick, an economist who helped guide the investments of the Ford Foundation and promoted low-income home ownership, has died. He was 85.Winnick died Saturday at a hospice in Manhasset, on Long Island. The cause of death was mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer that his daughter Pamela Winnick attributed to exposure to asbestos when he worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II. Winnick was born in Romania and came to Brooklyn when he was 1. He graduated from Brooklyn College and earned a graduate degree in economics at Columbia University.He worked for the New York City Planning Commission and the Housing and Redevelopment Board before joining the Ford Foundation in 1962. He served as deputy vice president in the national affairs division from 1968 to 1986.Winnick played a major role in the foundation's effort to channel resources into housing, community renewal and minority enterprise following the turbulence of the late 1960s.He was credited with steering the foundation toward making low-interest loans and equity investments in low-income urban areas.
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