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MORNING STAR
✳ MAY 11 - 17, 2006
Business BUSINESS MIX Print Shack, Inc. wins ninth consecutive award Print Shack, Inc. of Seaford received a Carlson Craft® award recognizing exemplary dealer excellence for 2005 for the ninth consecutive year. Every year, Carlson Craft® (the nation’s leading wholesale printing company) presents only a few select dealers with this award for outstanding performance and exceptional sales achievements. Started in 1987, Print Shack, Inc. has provided printing and promotional products to businesses large and small throughout the Delmarva Peninsula.
Home Team Realty announces top producers for month of April Frank Parks and Rob Harman, brokerowners of Home Team Realty, announce that Angie Zebley was the top listing agent and Mike Procino was the top selling agent for April 2006. The Home Team Realty office is located at 1258 Norman Eskridge Highway, behind McDonald’s, in Seaford.
Public reminded of dangers during Electrical Safety Month Delmarva Power employees and others who work with electricity year-round are acutely aware of the need for safety at all times. Since May is Electrical Safety month, and also a time to do work around your property, Delmarva Power reminds everyone to be careful when working with or near electricity. “Contact with electricity can cause serious injury or death,” says Larry Larimore, senior safety coordinator for Delmarva Power. “Electrical contact causes thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths each year. Most of these injuries and deaths can be avoided with an increased awareness of electrical safety, such as noting locations of power lines when working outside.” When trimming trees or working around your home, know where the electric wires and equipment are and how to work safely around them. Avoid unnecessary risks when working
with electricity by calling a licensed contractor or electrician. If you are planning to dig, notify Miss Utility of Delmarva at 1-800-441-8355 to make sure the underground utilities are located and marked in advance as a safety precaution. Here are some additional electrical safety tips to follow this spring and yearround: • Remind children to stay away from electric facilities such as substations, transmission towers and transformers. • When carrying long or tall items, such as ladders, tree saws and pool cleaning equipment, hold them parallel to the ground. Look up before you raise them into the air to be sure they’re clear of any power lines. • Remember that electricity can move through conductive materials, such as water, metal, wood, aluminum, string and plastics. • Stay away from overhead lines. Be very watchful if you are trimming trees or work on near the electrical connection to your property. If you need to work near overhead wires, call Delmarva Power at 1800-375-7117. For more information on using electricity safely, visit www.delmarva.com.
Poultry and Soybean Industries want you to enjoy chicken tonight Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. (DPI), the trade association for the Delmarva Peninsula’s broiler chicken industry, and the Delaware Soybean Board and Maryland Soybean Board, groups working for the state’s soybean farmers, have announced the creation of a new promotion to benefit both segments of agriculture. The soybean boards’ “thankachicken. com” promotion that began last year is intended to help the soybean farmers’ largest customers, which in the Delmarva region is the chicken industry. In other parts of the nation soybean farmers are promoting other sectors of animal agriculture. By helping their largest customers, soybean farmers benefit because it maintains or increases demand for their products. The Delaware and Maryland soybean boards are funded by farmers through the
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national soybean checkoff program. Through the checkoff one-half of one percent of the net market value of soybeans is assessed at the first point of sale for soybean research, marketing and education. During the campaign kick-off, DPI President Roger Marino noted the important relationship between the poultry industry and soybean growers. “We are very happy to be partners once again with America’s and this region’s soybean growers. They are an essential part of the three-legged stool that is needed to sustain Delmarva’s chicken industry. Those three legs are the poultry growers, the poultry companies, and the farmers who grow the feed ingredients needed by our chickens.” In a press recent conference near Georgetown, Susanne Zilberfarb, representing the Delaware Soybean Board, and Roger Schmick, vice chairman of the Maryland Soybean Board, and Marino announced the theme for this year’s promotion. “We wanted a message that would be effective and appropriate at this time. The message we chose is that chicken is a safe, nutritious, and delicious product to eat, as it always has been. “But right now the message is being overlooked by some people who are concerned about the Asian strain of influenza
that has been circulating in Asia and Europe.” Marino stressed that the United States is free of the Asian-Strain H5N1 influenza. Using soybean farmers’ money, 1,000 signs have been printed carrying the message, “Safe, Delicious, Nutritious…Eat chicken Tonight.” The signs were distributed through DPI to its members, starting at DPI’s annual membership booster banquet on April 25. These 24- by 18-inch signs are intended for display on farms, in members’ residential areas, and at poultry-related businesses to assure consumers that chicken is safe to eat. During his remarks, Marino stressed the unprecedented health surveillance of Delmarva’s chicken flocks. He assured consumers that chicken products will never come from houses where an avian influenza virus has been found. All birds in an avian influenza-positive house will be humanely destroyed and composted in the chicken houses. Marino said, “Consumers can be assured that Delmarva birds exposed to any type of avian influenza virus will not get into commerce.” Persons wanting new ways to prepare chicken can find them at the DPI website www.dpichicken.org and by contacting the Delmarva Poultry Industry office at 1-800878-2449.