Devils Lake marks Fourth of July and 125th anniversary
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
It took about an hour and a half from the moment the first American Legion flag bearer started the parade to the moment the street sweeper ended it 10 ...
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The NHS at 60: has the dream been matched by reality?
Independent - London,England,UK
I used to be a road sweeper, but I was made redundant. I clean the building where all the social workers are, and the occupational health building too. ...
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Opinion: MPs expenses
Politics.co.uk - London,UK
He spent tax money taken from a road sweeper, a teacher, a nurse. Well-off men taking money from the less well off so they can have a nicer house is not a ...
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Board Approves Renovations to Walk Street Tavern
New Hyde Park Illustrated News - New Hyde Park,NY,USA
... Superintendent of Public Works Jim McCloat was at the meeting and in addressing the issues said that the street cleaner goes to every street in the ...
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City gets it right when removing huge fallen tree limb
Modesto Bee - Modesto,CA,USA
A bit later that same morning another group came to clear the pavement of all the debris, and was followed soon by the street cleaner. I'll tell you, ...
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Longtime street sweeper retires
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
Donald McKenzie, 71, has retired after a nearly three-decade career with the city, most of it spent as a street sweeper. Until a few years ago, ...
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Street sweeper sprays street with mud
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
By Aidan Mcgurran 3/07/2008 A bungling council road sweeper's name is mud after he sprayed a street with filth instead of sucking it up. ...
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A Tip-Off, a Reward, an Arrest for Pigeon Poaching
New York Times - United States
Two months ago, a formerly homeless street sweeper tipped off law enforcement officials about a pigeon poacher, Isaac Gonzalez, who was spreading vast ...
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Council supports South Torrington
The Torrington Telegram - Torrington,WY,USA
The council also heard a report on the city's new street sweeper. The city contracted with CAT for the sweeper but has not yet received it. ...
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Ottumwa moving past floods
Ottumwa Courier - Ottumwa,IA,USA
A street sweeper buzzed in the background, almost unnoticed compared to the noise of the larger machines. Market Street was closed for 21 days as the river ...
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Dozens splattered after road sweeper sprays instead of sucks
Burnley Express - East Lancashire, UK
The road sweeper was incredibly apologetic when he realised what had happened." The full article contains 151 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
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Sweeper sprays filth over people
BBC News - UK
A council road sweeper covered a street in Cambridgeshire with filth - after spraying waste from his truck instead of sucking it up. ...
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Workmen are heroes at fire
Evesham Journal - UK
The quick thinking team grabbed a jet washer which was attached to a road sweeper that was working on the road and started tackling the blaze. ...
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Pensioner's upset over hospital treatment
Fenland Today - Wisbech,England,UK
By sarah cliss PEOPLE in Wisbech's De Havilland Road were left with mud on their faces – and all over in some cases – after a road sweeper accidentally ...
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Marathon man raises funds for air ambulance charity
Ripon Today - Ripon,England,UK
Gary Wilks, 35, who works as a street cleaner in Ripon, was able to present a cheque to the charity's development officer Tony Doveston in the city last ...
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Woman faces trial for fatal collision with Kentwood street sweeper
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
... Rapids woman was ordered to stand trial this week for drunken driving causing death after her car rear-ended a street sweeper, killing her passenger. ...
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WALTHAM FOREST: Street cleaners' anger over 'brutal' contractor
East London and West Essex Guardian Series - UK
One street sweeper, who did not want to be named for fear of losing his job, said: "We are losing around £150 to £200-a-week each on average - around half ...
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Clean up the bike lanes
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
Most governments have an apparatus called a street sweeper and I often see these on neighborhood streets but seldom on roads with bike lanes. ...
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Community Watch — June 30
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
A reader writes: "Would it be possible for the city or county to use a street sweeper to clean the bike lanes on Division Street? "The bike lanes are often ...
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Marchers, floats bring festive feel to parade
Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
The Bridgeport Rotary Club used a horse-drawn wagon to carry the winners of its Outstanding Bridgeport Teachers and Students award; a city street sweeper ...
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Accuser a varsity dropout
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
"The more people we know, whether a minister, an opposition leader, gangster or street sweeper -- someday, they may help us," he said in February.
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