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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as Carolina Beach business owners are looking for a sign. Actually, they’re seeking signs of all kinds to draw attention to their establishments, including those currently not allowed by the town’s rules.

Officials are considering whether to lengthen the amount of time allowed for temporary banners, currently four weeks, and whether to permit vehicle/trailer signs, A-frame boards, balloons and humans in costume, such as the Liberty Tax mascot seen in other parts of New Hanover County. All are prohibited under the town’s current sign ordinance.

The planning staff proposes allowing businesses in commercial districts one temporary sign to be displayed per site year-round, including A-frame boards, balloons, portable signs, banners, human (costumed and handheld) signs and vehicle/trailer signs.

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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as anyone in the Midtown area of Tucson today might notice a giant, primary-colored kite in midair.

The kite, which weighs more than a ton, is being installed as part of the signage for the new Diamond Children’s Medical Center. The new children’s hospital is part of Tucson’s University Medical Center and is expected to be fully operational this year.
For children and families, the main differences will be space, comfort and privacy — all of the pediatric rooms will be private.

And families, who often spend months in the hospital with their sick children, will have more space and fold-out beds to help ease their stay.

The new center is a partnership between UMC and the University of Arizona’s Steele Children’s Research Center, merging clinical and research components into one facility for young patients.

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Highgate Park : More local news and events from in and around the Highgate Park Davenport area as “Hope for a Thorn,” written and directed by UCF alumna Erin Kitzinger, will have its Florida Premiere at the Gasparilla International Film Festival on March 20. During its world premiere at the LA Femme Film Festival in Los Angeles in October, the film received the Best Feature Director award.

When a troubled grandmother finds herself the guardian of the granddaughter whom she’s never met, she is forced to finally face her past. While each is fighting loss, loneliness, and madness, their only chance for redemption is each other. Shot entirely in the Orlando area during summer 2007, “Thorn” utilized local cast and a combination of student and professional crew to complete the 74-minute film.

“Hope for a Thorn” is one of the first feature films produced through UCF’s new Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema Master of Fine Arts program. The unique graduate program requires its students to finance and produce micro-budget digital feature films. Kitzinger graduated from the program in August 2008.

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Highgate Park : More local news and local events from in and around the Highgate Park Davenport area as more than 100 University of Central Florida students will be caring for abused animals in Puerto Rico, researching habitats at the National Key Deer Refuge and working with children and their families at homeless shelters during next week’s Spring Break.

College of Business Administration students will travel to Panama to help people create micro-enterprises, with a focus on sustainability and imparting basic business knowledge and skills. This will be the second time a UCF group has traveled to the region to help the indigenous Koskuna tribe, and sponsors include the college, Student Government Association and Princeton Review.

A group of Physical Therapy students will spend its spring break in Kingston, Jamaica, where they will be distributing medical equipment and educating caregivers of children with special needs living in orphanages. UCF students have traveled to Jamaica to help orphans for the past five years, and they are part of an ongoing partnership with the Florida Hospital Outreach program SHARES International.

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Highgate Park : More local new and local events from in and around the Highgate Park Davenport area as flight attendants for Florida-based AirTran Airways have objected to an image of a woman in a swimsuit displayed on the side of a Boeing 737 jet. AirTran, based in Orlando with its largest hub in Atlanta, said the image was put on the side of one of its planes as part of a partnership with Sports Illustrated for its annual swimsuit edition and the picture will soon be removed from the jet as the promotion draws to a close, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday.

The Association of Flight Attendants at AirTran sent a message to its members objecting to the image.

“It is our feeling that this is not only contrary to the family image that this company tries to promote, but also potentially offensive to their female employees, the majority of their flight attendants who will have to work on this aircraft,” the union said. It said the promotion “creates a potential for verbal abuse by male passengers.”

AirTran spokesman Christopher White said the decal is “subdued and classy.”

“We have the highest respect for all of our crew members, male and female,” White said. “We also went to great lengths to ensure that the image that we put on the side of our planes was very tastefully done and very much a family friendly image.”

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More signage news from in and around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as the tall business signs dotting U.S. Highway 98, Florida eventually might become a thing of the past.

The county wants to make the drive along major highways like U.S. 98 and 90 more pleasing to the eye and less visually cluttered. Next week, the planning board will consider some options presented by the planning and zoning department on how to change the sign ordinance countywide.

Shawn Ward of Santa Rosa County’s Planning, Zoning and Development Division held a meeting in Midway last Friday to hear what business owners and residents of the south end had to say about signage. About 30 people, plus the media, showed up and several voiced opinions to the proposed changes in the sign ordinance. Both south end Chambers of Commerce – Gulf Breeze and Navarre – were represented.

Ward said most of the signs along U.S. 98 are tall signs.

“There are 201 signs on Highway 98 from Gulf Breeze proper, starting at the Pensacola Bridge, to the heart of Navarre,” Ward said. “Fifty-three percent of those are tall signs.”

The main proposed change in the current sign ordinance would require all new signs placed in front of businesses or churches to be monument signs – low-level signs that are solid all the way to the ground.

However, the new ordinance, as proposed now, would not require any business or church that already has an on-premise sign in place to change it until more than 50 percent of that sign is damaged. And Ward assured that any changes to the county sign ordinance would not apply to municipalities in the county, like Gulf Breeze City.

“Gulf Breeze has its own sign ordinance, and I believe it is more restrictive than the county’s,” Ward said.

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More signage news from in and around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as the Hamburg Village Board, New York has decided that it will stand firm on its signage laws. Some businesses recently approached the board asking for variances to allow for internally lit signs.

With the establishment of more stringent architectural codes and a review board to oversee them, the village no longer allows for internally lit signs and informed the public during their work session Monday (March 1) night that, as of now, it will make no exceptions to that rule.

Mayor Thomas Moses Sr. told Tara Weller, a representative of Dairy Queen on Lake Street, that the ice cream store would need to erect an externally lit sign if she were to replace the broken one that is currently sitting in front of the business.

“If we start changing how we’re trying to do things mid-stream than we might have a problem in the future,” Moses said.

A few businesses have already realized that their requests for internally lit signs will not pass through the Architectural Review Committee and not get approval from the board, so they have decided to make revisions to their sign designs to comply.

“If we make an exception on just one, than there is no consistency and no use for even having the laws,” Trustee Mark Colmerauer noted.

Village Attorney Edward Murphy III said Walgreens and Fast Track Quick Lube initially had plans for internally illuminated signs but both plans were being approved at Monday’s meeting only because the signs are now externally lit.

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More signage news from in and around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as in Ireland a Longford Town councillor has said that better signage is required to let people know that there is a new taxi bay operating on Ballymahon Street at evening times, Sundays and bank holidays.
Cllr Michael Connellan, who met with the taxi drivers this week, said they are “concerned with the number of ordinary cars that are parking in the designated taxi rank after 7pm in the evening, particularly on a Saturday evening.

“The issue of policing and enforcing the bye laws is a matter for An Garda Siochana only and is not a matter for Longford Town Council. I propose to raise the issue of enforcement at the joint policing committee meeting with members of An Garda Siochana at the end of the month,” said Cllr Connellan.

He said the Town Council can also play its part by putting up better signage.

“It is also necessary for Longford Town Council to erect signage to indicate the usage hours for taxi’s and in particular the permitting of use of the five car park spaces on a Bank Holiday Monday and all day Sundays.

“The signage at present does not include the reference to Bank Holiday Mondays and Sundays. As a result innocent people are parking their vehicles in the allocated and designated bay on a Bank Holiday Monday and Sunday unaware of the new Bye Laws that are in place for quite some time.

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More signage news from in and around the UK from Hants and Dorset Signs as the excellent conditions from prolonged snowfalls is helping Scotland’s ski centres, but could also provide a boost for the Gaelic language. Bilingual signs were installed at the Lecht, Glenshee, Nevis Range and Glencoe resorts a year ago, and a new research project will now assess their impact.

CnaG chief executive Donald MacNeill said: “The recent wintry weather and surge in visitors at Scotland’s ski centres is providing great exposure for the new Gaelic presence at these centres. It’s an ideal opportunity to examine the effectiveness of the bilingual signs among skiers and boarders who are attending the centres; a lot of whom may never have come across signs with Gaelic and English before.”

“The bilingual signage scheme has run successfully for a number of years, with 100 companies having taken advantage of the opportunity, so we already know it’s worthwhile in raising the profile both of Gaelic and the participating business. What this new research is about is trying to find out whether the presence of these signs affects the general interest in Gaelic; encourages people to think about Gaelic in a different light; or if visitors are more attracted to places with Gaelic.

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Highgate Park : More local news and events from in and around the Highgate Park Davenport areas as Cat Cora, a Macy’s Culinary Council Chef, will host a cooking demonstration and book signing at 2 p.m. March 20 at Macy’s at The Mall at Millenia in Orlando. She will be featuring recipes from Kouzzina, her newest restaurant, a Mediterranean style eatery located at Walt Disney World’s BoardWalk Resort.

Both on and off-screen, Chef Cat Cora has continued to make a lasting impression on the culinary community. In 2005, Cat made television history on Food Network’s Iron Chef America as the first and only female Iron Chef, and in November 2006 Bon Appétit magazine bestowed her with their Teacher of the Year Award. That month, she was also honored with another great culinary distinction when she was named Executive Chef of the magazine. In December 2008, Cat launched CCQ (Cat Cora’s Que) at Macy’s new Signature Kitchen restaurant in California’s South Coast Plaza location.

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Highgate Park : More local news and events from in and around the Highgate Park Davenport area as it has been reported that AirTran Airways will offer daily flights between Knoxville and Orlando starting in May. Since June, the airline had been offering flights from McGhee Tyson to Orlando International Airport each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, but beginning May 4, the flights will operate daily, according to the Airport Authority, which operates McGhee Tyson and Downtown Island airports.

“The new low-fare flights will increase the number of airline seats available each day to one of the airport’s most visited destinations and will allow our passengers to have options when booking their next trip to Orlando,” Kirk Huddleston, chairman of the Airport Authority’s board of commissioners, said in a prepared statement.

John Kirby, senior director of strategic planning for AirTran Airways, said the Knoxville to Orlando flights have been very popular so the airline is increasing service.

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Highgate Park : More local news and local events from in and around the Highgate Park Davenport area as at a Friendship Elementary in Deltona, children sing about multiplication in music class. When kids at Kissimmee’s Boggy Creek Elementary go to gym, they practice counting money during a game of skipping and jumping.

Culinary-arts students at Apopka High School use math for recipes. They also explore the science behind bread making and how heat impacts ingredients.

In Florida’s schools, teaching math and science is no longer the sole responsibility of math and science teachers. Principals are under intense pressure to boost test scores in both subjects, and so everybody on campus is taking on a bigger share of the instructional burden.

“We realize it takes everyone to help our children be successful,” said Judi Winch, the principal of Westside Elementary in Daytona Beach, where youngsters hover over measurements and discuss angles and coordinates in art class and work on patterns and graphing in music.

Administrators say it makes perfect sense: The “fun” classes can help make tough concepts easier to understand. These teachers can also help kids see that math and science have real-life applications, that they’re not just big words and numbers in books.

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Highgate Park : More local news andlocal events from in and around the Highgate Park Davenport area as US consumers sent tepid signals to The Walt Disney Co. during the holiday quarter, as many of them still required discounts to step into theme parks and reduced spending on food, beverages and merchandise when they got there.

A nascent advertising recovery also had an uneven effect on the company, as ESPN benefited from higher ad revenue, while the ABC broadcast network suffered from fewer viewers and lower advertising rates. The Disney Channel, which doesn’t run commercials, saw fees from cable and satellite operators grow.

“At this point we have limited visibility regarding the economy and its impact on our businesses,” Chief Executive Bob Iger said on a conference call. “Thus we will continue to focus on controlling costs while creating great content and experiences and building our brands.”

Disney is closely tethered to consumer confidence. Its theme parks, stores and movies are a good barometer of how freely people are spending their extra cash.

Disney said it earned $844 million in its fiscal first quarter, which ended Jan. 2, roughly flat compared with a year earlier. Revenue rose 1 percent to $9.74 billion. Although both measures beat analyst forecasts, shares were little changed in after-hours trading.

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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as in Pennsylvania a committee of residents formed under the plan has proposed adding four “Welcome to Greencastle” signs on major routes into the community to help boost town beautification. Downtown Beautification Chairwoman Marissa Pinto Burt said the project is still very preliminary but that adding the signs was a priority set forth in the borough’s strategic plan.

In its “5-year Wish List” adopted in the plan, Borough Council listed “Welcome to Greencastle” signs at the top of it suggestions for improving town appearance.

“We are excited about this,” Pinto Burt said. “We are optimistic that the project will get approved and the signs will be up before Old Home Week.”

The committee turned to a local company, Wertner Signs, for design and artistic expertise, Pinto Burt said.

Each sign will include the borough’s Web site to give visitors a reference point for borough issues, said Andrew Barbuzanes of Wertner Signs.

Barbuzanes said his designs were of carved signs, which over time, cost less to maintain than flat surface signs.

Hoping to place two signs on U.S. 11 and two signs on Pa. 16, Pinto Burt informed council that land-use rights were needed before the project could progress.

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More signage news from in and around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as in Canada, one east end councillor is pushing for the city to review its regulations for signage and symbols after repeated requests from the city to have the 100 pound fibreglass cow on the roof of Cheddar Et Cetera removed.

The cow, located on the roof of the business, has been a symbol in the community for more than 20 years said Orléans Coun. Bob Monette, and he is asking the city to modify one of its regulations that is threatening the future of the long-standing display.

“In some instances, certain signs or displays have to be respected. This is something that is part of the roots of the community,” said Monette.

Under a law prohibiting signs on businesses for security measures, the east end business received warnings from the city since last fall to remove the cow, facing a maximum fine of $50,000.

The city has also asked the business owners to remove Canadian flags seen on the side of the cow.

Last month, Ottawa city council said it would allow the store a stay of one month to give them time to decide on the fate of the symbol while having to meet the standards of by-law.
Lionel Laurin, owner of Ace Body Shop, first contacted Monette about the issue to see if anything could be done.

“The cow is a symbol of hard work of the farmers and what they have done,” said Laurin. “It’s more than just a big old cow that looks good. It’s about respecting the farmers and what they have done for many years.”

Laurin said asking the business to remove the Canadian flag was even more inappropriate.
“We are showing pride for our nation,” he said. “ We have brave men and women fighting overseas and coming home in body bags. We want to pay respect to the them.”

Monette said the issue has spread to many areas across the city, with residents and other dignitaries, including Ottawa-Vanier MP Mauril Bélanger, supporting the cause.
Orléans residents have signed a petition with 1,200 signatures.

Monette is presenting the petition along with a review request for signage on February 23 to the city’s planning and environment committee.

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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as the erection of large black and yellow signs at either end of Hastings Street, Queensland Australia by the Sunshine Coast Regional Council and bearing the Queensland Police Service logo, should be removed immediately according to local MP Glen Elmes, the Member for Noosa. The signs read: DO NOT LEAVE YOUR VALUABLES UNATTENDED THIEVES AT WORK

“While I understand the sentiment behind the reasons for these signs, they are unwarranted and alarmist and will damage Noosa’s tourism image. There are better ways to reinforce this message across to locals and visitors without resorting to ugly signs” said Glen Elmes.

“Frankly, in this day and age anyone who leaves their car unlocked, or valuables in a towel on the beach for even a short period of time, is a fool.

My other concern is that, regardless of the message, Noosa does not need visual pollution from signs, it is not in the make up of this community – it is not something that the old Noosa Council would undertake”

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More signage news from around the world from Hants and Dorset Signs as a ban on overnight camping in Christchurch’s, New Zealand, Cranmer Square cannot yet be legally enforced despite the ban taking effect recently. The Christchurch City Council unanimously agreed to introduce an immediate ban after residents complained of campers using the area as a toilet.

But the council said yesterday it must wait for “appropriate signage” before the freedom-camping ban can be enforced.

The Press visited Cranmer Square at 9am yesterday and found about 10 vehicles belonging to freedom campers.

Those spoken to said expensive campsites prompted them to look for free areas. All were unaware it was illegal to stay there.

North Carolina couple Joe Hinton and Lenny Strom were referred to Cranmer Square by “a friend of a friend of a friend”.

They welcomed any bylaw, even if it meant they could not stay there again.

Hinton said campers who used the area as a toilet were “despicable and horrible”.

The pair said freedom camping was the only option for many people because campsites were too expensive.

Council inspections and enforcement unit manager Gary Lennan said signs needed to be designed, made and erected before campers could be asked to leave Cranmer Square.

The council would know next week when the signs would be ready, he said.

“In the meantime, council staff will take an educational approach and advise persons residing in vehicles in Cranmer Square that vehicles used for this purpose are not permitted in the area.”

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