TRENDY SHOPPES: SHOP TRENDY, SHOP INDIE, SHOP HANDMADE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 3, 2008

TRENDY SHOPPES: SHOP TRENDY, SHOP INDIE, SHOP HANDMADE

SKJ Web Designs Inc. launches a new indie shopping website featuring trendy handmade items.   Trendyshoppes.com features items including accessories, apparel, bath and body, earth friendly, household, jewelry, children’s items, and paper goods.

Trendy Shoppes believes in supporting the indie designer. When you shop there you are supporting independent designers, artists and crafters as opposed to big corporations. The designers that make these products are dedicated to producing quality items and take great pride in the work they do.  You will find a commitment to quality and creativeness among their wonderful vendors and designers. So if you are looking for something that you can’t get at the local mall, you are visiting the ideal online store.

Trendy Shoppes offers easy online shopping, featured items, and a wish list. To learn more about Trendy Shoppes, please visit www.trendyshoppes.com.

About Trendy Shoppes:
Trendy Shoppes is a new online store where you will find unique, hip & trendy handmade items.

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If you would like more information about Trendy Shoppes, please visit www.trendyshoppes.com or email info@trendyshoppes.com

Rapid growth means some get new trash, watering day

Press Release
For Immediate Release

For More Information, Please Call:
Anna Folmnsbee
Communications and Media Manager
afolmnsb@mckinneytexas.org
972-547-7525

Rapid growth means some get new trash, watering day
McKinney re-routes give 100,000 residents different collection day

McKINNEY, Texas (Oct. 3, 2008) – For the first time since 2004, McKinney Environmental Services department is coordinating a trash collection re-route with IESI, the city’s solid waste services company. Not every house will be affected, but 10,000 residents will have a new trash collection day as of Monday, Oct. 6.

Residents who are affected have received a notice on their trash bin with their new trash day. Signs posted in neighborhoods within the re-routed area also notify residents of the change. If a resident does not receive a notice attached to the trash or recycling container, their trash collection and watering days will stay the same. The city is making some concessions to accommodate citizens during the change.

“Trash collection is a vital service, so IESI will conduct collections for those who were missed throughout the week of Oct. 6,” said Eric Hopes, Environmental and Fleet Services Manager. “Our intent is to make the changes as easy as possible, while achieving the end result of an evenly distributed refuse pick-up load.”

A new trash collection day also means a new day to for recycling and environmental waste pick-up, and a new watering day. If your trash day changes, remember to water on that new collection day and again three days later if necessary.

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Phase 2 of McKinney Smoking Ordinance Goes into Effect Sept 4

Press Release
For Immediate Release

For More Information, Please Call:
Anna Folmnsbee
Communications and Media Manager
afolmnsb@mckinneytexas.org
972-547-7525

Phase 2 of McKinney Smoking Ordinance Goes into Effect Sept. 4

McKINNEY, Texas (Aug. 29, 2008) - Smoking regulations in McKinney went into effect on New

Year’s Day this year, banning smoking in many public places. Starting Sept. 4, the second and final phase of the smoking regulations goes into effect, which means no smoking in businesses across McKinney.

The second phase includes all enclosed places of employment within the city, retail stores, offices, restaurants, public transit, museums, theaters, public parks, hospitals and common use areas in apartment and other buildings. The date for enforcing the final phase is exactly one year from the date City Council adopted the ordinance.

“We granted existing businesses with a valid certificate of occupancy dated prior to Jan. 1, 2008, a full year from the Sept. 4, 2007, ordinance adoption date to comply with the smoking ordinance,” said Community Development Director Sam Chavez. “Anyone who chooses to smoke can still do so on their personal property, among other select places.”

McKinney’s ordinance allows smoking in private residences, including porch and yard areas, personal automobiles, retail tobacco stores and designated smoking rooms of country clubs.

Smoking is also allowed in outdoor places of employment, on public sidewalks at least 25 feet from doors and windows, and in parking lots within public parks.

“Our focus for the ordinance is public health,” said Chavez. “We have had great compliance with the first phase of the ordinance, and many establishments voluntarily have been smoke-free for quite a while.”

In addition to local businesses, not more than 10 percent of hotel and motel rooms can be designated smoking rooms. All smoking rooms must be on the same floor, adjacent to the other smoking rooms and require separate ventilation systems.

Any person or business violating the ordinance will be punishable by a fine of up to $500.

For more information about McKinney’s smoking ordinance, to view the ordinance, or to download a copy of the “No Smoking” sign, visit www.mckinneyinfo.com.

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