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Monday Morning Mold October 18, 2004

Mold in the Media

October 18, 2004

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Mold Stories

-- Kennedy, Walsh join anti-mold talks (Pepperell Free Press, MA - Oct 15, 2004)

-- Bank boards up mold house, 3rd auction cancelled (Ayer Public Spirit, MA - Oct 13, 2004)

-- EMSL Analytical, Inc. Awarded Texas DOH Accreditation for Mold Analysis (E-Wire, TX - Oct 12, 2004)

-- Charley, Frances, Jeanne & Ivan Follow-Up: Mold Making Residents Sick and Tired (WCJB, FL - Oct 13, 2004)

-- Mold found in nuclear weapons plant office (WKRN, TN - Oct 12, 2004)

-- Concerns about mold bring local residents to Washington (Fairfield Minuteman, CT - Oct 14, 2004)

-- Mold Education: The Aspergillus Website

-- Court Mold: Police station's future in voters' hands (Seguin Gazette Enterprise, TX - Oct 16, 2004)

-- School Mold: Mold forces teachers to improvise (Carlisle Sentinel, United States - Oct 18, 2004)

-- Mold Litigation: Port Isabel clinic re-opened after mold cleanup (Brownsville Herald, TX - Oct 12, 2004)

-- Charley, Frances, Jeanne & Ivan Follow-Up: Ivan mold damage closes Baldwin complex (AL.com, AL - Oct 8, 2004)

-- Expert to Address Builders about Preventing Litigation Through Improving Construction, Customer Service at Sunbelt Builders Show, Oct. 20-23 (Business Wire, CA - Oct 15, 2004)

-- Lawsuit against city in settlement talks - HAMMOND: River Park owners say officials edited study to force out tenants. (Munster Times, IN - Oct 18, 2004)

-- U.S. Court Cites Mold Study, Indicates Reversal in Lawsuits (Commercial Property News - Oct 15, 2004)

-- For Fun: It's Good to be in DC!

Dear C,

This week's photo is of Aspergillus spp. from Dr. Terry Hill's website. Dr. Hill is a Professor of Biology at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.

Kennedy, Walsh join anti-mold talks (Pepperell Free Press, MA - Oct 15, 2004)

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PEPPERELL -- The offices of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy have joined those of Massachusetts Sen. Marian Walsh and Boston City Councilor Maura Hannigan in opening dialogue with lobbyists for House Bill 1268 sponsored by Michigan Congressman John Conyers Jr. to protect homeowners from toxic molds, Pepperell mold sufferer-turned-activist Nancy Davis said this week.

The bill is aimed at establishing national home purchase covenants similar to asbestos and lead paint laws.

Bank boards up mold house, 3rd auction cancelled (Ayer Public Spirit, MA - Oct 13, 2004)

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PEPPERELL -- Nancy Davis continues to be amazed at the events unfolding at her family's mold-infested 20 Shawnee Road house since serious illness forced her to move out --events that seem at odds with what she is told when she speaks with representatives of the bank that holds the mortgage.

Now jobless and living in a nearby apartment, the former private chef has become a national activist for mold legislation and runs the non-profit Mold Relief Inc. to help fellow victims forced from their homes by creeping fungus.

Click here for a photo of the mold in Nancy Davis' home.

EMSL Analytical, Inc. Awarded Texas DOH Accreditation for Mold Analysis (E-Wire, TX - Oct 12, 2004)

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HOUSTON, TEXAS, Oct. 12 -/E-Wire/-- EMSL Analytical, Inc., the largest network of indoor air quality testing laboratories in the nation, announced its Houston, TX, San Antonio, TX and Westmont, NJ labs have just received the esteemed Texad DOH Accreditation for Mold analyses. EMSL is the exclusive laboratory in the nation to currently operate eight AIHA EMLAP Accredited environmental microbiology laboratories, seven AIHA ELLAP Accredited lead laboratories and three AIHA IHLAP Accredited industrial hygiene laboratories.

Charley, Frances, Jeanne & Ivan Follow-Up: Mold Making Residents Sick and Tired (WCJB, FL - Oct 13, 2004)

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Tenants of the Gatorwood Apartments are literally sick and tired of being ignored. The rain from Frances and Jeanne are turning their apartments into a science projects, and residents say maintenance is doing nothing about it.

The rain is leaking into apartments causing mold to grow. The leaking is so bad in one apartment the roof collapsed, causing the person who lives there to move to another location.

Mold found in nuclear weapons plant office (WKRN, TN - Oct 12, 2004)

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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. Health and safety experts have been called in to battle a mold problem in a building at Oak Ridge's nuclear weapons plant.

Mold and mildew have been discovered throughout a 20-year-old office building known as Building 9109 at the high-security Y-12 National Security Complex.

Concerns about mold bring local residents to Washington (Fairfield Minuteman, CT - Oct 14, 2004)

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Over a year ago, Easton's June Chiaia-Logie sat at a state legislature hearing on indoor air quality, listening to horror stories of students who believed they had suffered severe health problems because of mold in their schools, when she made a decision about her own ailing children.

"I knew when I walked out of that building that my children weren't going to get that bad," said Chiaia- Logie, who immediately withdrew her two youngsters from Samuel Staples Elementary School, the building that she suspected had caused their illnesses.

Mold Education: The Aspergillus Website

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Aspergillus is a group of moulds, which is found everywhere world-wide, especially in the autumn and winter in the Northern hemisphere. Moulds are also called filamentous fungi. Only a few of these moulds can cause illness in humans and animals. Most people are naturally immune and do not develop disease caused by Aspergillus. However, when disease does occur, it takes several forms.

The types of diseases caused by Aspergillus are varied, ranging from an allergy-type illness to life- threatening generalised infections. Diseases caused by Aspergillus are called aspergillosis. The severity of aspergillosis is determined by various factors but one of the most important is the state of the immune system of the person.

Court Mold: Police station's future in voters' hands (Seguin Gazette Enterprise, TX - Oct 16, 2004)

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SEGUIN - Residents will have a choice to make at the polls Nov. 2, and it involves more than the presidency - it also includes the opportunity to approve or reject two propositions for the future home of the Seguin police department.

Proposition 1 is for $2 million to build a new police station at Guadalupe and Medlin streets. Proposition 2 is for $900,000 for updating the department's communications equipment.

School Mold: Mold forces teachers to improvise (Carlisle Sentinel, United States - Oct 18, 2004)

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Students in Diane Root's fifth-grade class cheered when her box of classroom books for pleasure reading arrived to fill bare shelves.

Kids in Cindy Pimental's fourth-grade class wrote stories from the perspective of Rowland Hall, describing how it felt to be filled up with students once again after three years of silence.

Mold Litigation: Port Isabel clinic re-opened after mold cleanup (Brownsville Herald, TX - Oct 12, 2004)

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Oct. 13, 2004 - The Father Joseph O'Brien Health Clinic in Port Isabel is open for business after it was closed in January 2002 when mold was found.

The county continues in litigation with the clinic's original contractor, Bobo Construction of Brownsville. It settled out of court in March 2003 for $75,000 with the architectural firm of Gignac & Associates of Corpus Christi.

Charley, Frances, Jeanne & Ivan Follow-Up: Ivan mold damage closes Baldwin complex (AL.com, AL - Oct 8, 2004)

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ROBERTSDALE -- Three weeks after Hurricane Ivan swept through Baldwin County, residents of 37 Robertsdale apartment units found themselves the latest victims to lose their homes when their complex was ordered closed.

Leaks from roof and wall damage at Briarwood Estates apartments on Berner Road behind Robertsdale High School have allowed mold and mildew to grow to the point that it has become a health hazard, said managers and residents.

Expert to Address Builders about Preventing Litigation Through Improving Construction, Customer Service at Sunbelt Builders Show, Oct. 20-23 (Business Wire, CA - Oct 15, 2004)

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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2004--Too many lawsuits and too little, if any, insurance coverage are causing builders to focus more than ever on improving quality and providing more- responsive customer service.

Two panels by nationally recognized construction quality expert Stan Luhr, at the upcoming Building Solutions Conference, will address these important issues. The conference is being presented by the Energy & Environmental Building Association, which is co-hosting the annual Sunbelt Builders Show, Oct. 20- 23, 2004, at the Gaylord Texan Hotel & Conference Center, Grapevine (metro Dallas), Texas, with the Texas Association of Builders and the National Association of Home Builders.

Lawsuit against city in settlement talks - HAMMOND: River Park owners say officials edited study to force out tenants. (Munster Times, IN - Oct 18, 2004)

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HAMMOND -- City officials may wind up cutting a sizeable check in a legal settlement for ejecting tenants from an apartment complex after inspections revealed three buildings contained toxic mold spores in the basements.

The owners of the River Park Apartments twice sued former Mayor Duane Dedelow's administration, alleging city officials edited a scientific study. City officials then allegedly trumped up a public health scare in order to evict tenants from 90 apartments and raid several buildings without search warrants or prior notice.

U.S. Court Cites Mold Study, Indicates Reversal in Lawsuits (Commercial Property News - Oct 15, 2004)

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After worrying for the past several years that toxic mold might be the next asbestos, apartment owners can breathe easier after the U.S. District Court for Arizona delivered an owner-friendly verdict in Kilian v. Equity Residential Trust, a mold-related lawsuit.

The plaintiff claimed that after being exposed to mold in her apartment, she developed a brain injury, seizures, a movement disorder, a neurocognitive disorder and an immune system disorder. She sued Equity Residential, the apartment owner, for personal injury.

For Fun: It's Good to be in DC!

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From the ever-fabulous JibJab (the brothers who brought you "This Land"), "It's Good to be in DC! set to Dixie. It takes a bit of time to load, but it's funny. Warning, though: don't show this to your kids without watching it and making sure you are ready to explain a few things.

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