Martha McLain.
SEARSPORT Martha McLain of Searsport, Maine passed away on February 4, 2021 at the age of 87.
She was born Martha Frances Jones on June 8, 1933 to Hobart and Louise Jones of Darien, Connecticut and she spent most of her childhood there before the family moved to a farm in Sandy Hook, Connecticut in 1947. She attended Newtown High School where she was thankful that her father was NOT the principal, as had been the case in Darien.
In 1951 she married Hans Burkard and together they built a house in 1955, doing all of the work themselves.
Martha was a proud first and second grade and remedial reading teacher from 1962 through her retirement in 1997. Her first ten years were spent at Brookfield Elementary School, near the family home in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. The last twenty five were divided between Frankfort Elementary School and Stockton Springs Elementary School in Midcoast Maine. Later in her career she had students who were children of her earlier students
Kusile housing project exposed as another Eskom money pit
South Africa’s state owned power utility Eskom has been exposed in more wasteful expenditure. Taxpayers’ money was pumped into the Wilge Residential development Project, which remains unfinished. The 336 housing units were meant for Kusile employees. Meanwhile the debt stricken enterprise spends billions on rent and transport for plant workers. Kusile, Eskom’s newest plant, is also incomplete and over budget. Last month the plant itself was the cause of rolling blackouts when conveyor belts failed. The plant was commissioned to be built in 2007 and was expected to be completed in 2015. Kusile’s completion date has been pushed back until 2023. The chairperson for the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises, Khaya Magaxa says action must be taken against all parties involved in the latest costly failure at the Mpumalanga plant. – Melani Nathan
By Katarina Hoije (Bloomberg) –
One of the world’s largest operators of floating power plants is in talks to bring power to two West African countries, as onshore plans to expand access to electricity have been hit by virus-related restrictions.
Karpowership, the unit of Turkey’s Karadeniz Energy Group, which already supplies eight African countries, is using the high reliability of its mobile units to attract more clients, Managing Director Zeynep Harezi said by phone from Istanbul, where its ships are assembled.
Its vessels can hook into an onshore grid quickly, sidestepping the red-tape and construction issues involved with building a traditional power plant. And these ships come with their own fuel liquefied natural gas and fuel oil.
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