Frank Bender, a terminally sick artist in North Carolina, announced in beginning February that he had finished his final painting. Bender began the facial reconstruction painting despite his struggle with terminal cancer as well as a prognosis of only eight months to live when he began. He wanted to make the attempt to create the [...]
Pat Miltenberger of Marshalltown, Iowa was diagnosed with mesothelioma in September 2009. She has undergone chemotherapy as well as has been fighting the disease since diagnosed. Mesothelioma is a relatively rare cancer that is almost always caused by exposure to asbestos.
In February, friends, family as well as community members threw a party to help raise [...]
Myron (Mike) D. Sommerfield of El Dorado, Kansas passed away on January 27, in San Diego, California after battling mesothelioma cancer, a form of cancer that attacks the lining around the lungs, heart or abdomen as well as is nearly always caused by exposure to asbestos.
Sommerfield was born on October 1, 1949 in Hesston, [...]
Michigan Kalamazoo County commissioner Grady Biby, died on February 3 at the age of 69. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma beginning in 2009. The disease was attributed to the many years he spent aboard submarines, which had been built with asbestos products, during his career with the U.S. Navy.
Biby had announced in July that [...]
The Common Aviation terminal in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was torn down on February 8, 2010. The terminal was originally scheduled for demolition four months earlier; but, the project was delayed because of the unexpected amounts of asbestos in the building. The contractor tasked with surveying the building had not fully accounted for all asbestos [...]
The family of Barry Baumener, a Pennsylvania man, was awarded a settlement by an Allegheny county jury in unhurried January. Baumener died of mesothelioma as a result of asbestos exposure. Ferro Engineering was the only defendant remaining at trial.
Bumener was originally diagnosed with mesothelioma in April 2009 as well as died in October at [...]
Loren H. Hoag of Manson, Iowa died on January 31 at the age of 57 after battling mesothelioma for two years. Memorial services were held on February 5 at Augustana Lutheran Church with Rev. Janelle Siffring officiating. Hoag was born on June 12, 1952, in Ft. Dodge Iowa. He graduated in 1970 from Manson High [...]
Demolition of the Moose Lodge building in Corvallis, Oregon has begun. Demolition is scheduled to be completed in three parts. The earliest part will include the removal hazardous materials such as asbestos, PCB filled ballasts as well as light tubes containing mercury. Specific materials containing asbestos include floor tile, vinyl flooring, ceiling texture as well [...]
Hundreds of homes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa were destroyed by flooding in June 2008. The demolition of these homes will be underway by March. While some homes possess already been torn down, the majority must earliest possess hazardous materials such as mercury as well as asbestos removed. Asbestos was commonly used in older homes as [...]
In January, Judge Jeffrey Donnell a district judge, in Albany County, Wyoming granted a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the University of Wyoming. A former employee of the University of Wyoming, David Morse, who alleged discrimination as well as retaliation, filed a wrongful termination suit. Specific complaints included retaliation for Morse’s reporting of alleged [...]
