Archive for September 4th, 2007

NBC5i.com:
A McKinney woman has started a business after solving her own problem.
The invention was born when Amy Long realized she didn’t have enough hands.
“I was actually walking through a parking lot with a child on either side and my baby in a sling and my blanket fell off,” she said.
Long solved the problem by creating [...]

The Arizona Republic:
Teri Ponticello moved to Arizona from New Jersey with her family last summer to find 115-degree temperatures and no Italian-ice shops. “We were dying!” Ponticello said.
That December, she and husband Gordon opened Teri’s Italian Ice in Ahwatukee. On most days, the couple are in the shop by 9:30 a.m., and they don’t close [...]

The Naperville Sun:
“Put the toilet seat down.”
“Don’t walk home alone.”
These are the sorts of things parents tell their kids over and over, but sometimes the message doesn’t get through. When mothers Cathy Giangrasse of Downers Grove and Jill Highland of Warrenville sent their children off to college, they panicked at the thought that their offspring [...]