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inspection contracts that meet the goals and objectives of both LIUNA and the company.
According to Sussman, “You have to be responsive to your market. Right now people will LIUNA represents construction workers and public service employees. Under the agreement,
travel, but they want a deal. We’re going to give them that, and let them know which hotels LIUNA will assist in promoting ESP’s services and expanding its business model and
and vendors have the best vacation packages available.” The special will begin airing January participate in joint meetings to help ESP procure home inspection and bio-remediation
and run through the season. contracts, with a specific focus on employing large numbers of veterans.
An accompanying website, www.palmspringsvacationdiscounts.com is scheduled to launch ESP, through its wholly owned subsidiary Environmental Safeguard Professionals, Inc.
corresponding with the show’s debut. Viewers will be able to visit the site to find discounts (“Safeguard”), has developed a standardized training, certification and inspection process to
and information on the participating sponsors, including videos from the series. address mandated energy certification, construction defects, moisture and environmental
issues in commercial and residential buildings. Leaders in the insurance, mortgage banking
SLOW FOOD ANNOUNCES FUNDRAISER and real estate industries have an innate interest in “best in class” annual environmental
The Desert Cities chapter of Slow Food USA will present its 3rd Annual Farm to Table inspections for improved risk assessment and mitigation.
Celebration fundraiser on Sunday, November 15 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. on the event lawn at Rocco Davis, LIUNA Vice President and Pacific Southwest Regional Manager, said,
Jackalope Ranch. The gathering will include tasty dishes prepared by more than a dozen local “LIUNA shares ESP’s commitment to establish standards for environmentally healthy homes,
chefs based on produce from local farmers, as well as a silent auction and music. Proceeds especially those that are on the market due to foreclosures resulting from today’s economic
will support the chapter’s Slow Food in Schools program which creates gardens on school crisis. We also share the goal of providing employment to as many of the nation’s veterans as
grounds for students to learn how to grow their own fruits and vegetables. possible. We look forward to helping ESP obtain funding and create a long term mutually
Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots beneficial strategic relationship.”
movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with Ed Torres, CEO of Palm Springs-based Environmental Service Professionals, Inc., said,
a commitment to community and the environment. It supports good (created with care from “We are pleased to form this strategic alliance with LIUNA, whose commitment to quality
healthy plants and animals), clean (as good for the planet as it is for our bodies), and fair service, a clean environment and good working conditions, benefits, and family-supporting
(accessible to all and produced by people who are treated with dignity) food. pay for its members supports our goals at ESP – especially our goal to be the single national
Tickets cost $45.00 per person and are available online at www.brownpapertickets.com. company employing the largest number of U.S. veterans other than the U.S. government.”
Children under 12 get in free. Jackalope Ranch is at 80400 Highway 111, just east of Jefferson, ESP offers various inspection services that include energy/efficiency audits addressing
in Indio. Information: 200-8684 mold and moisture intrusion that can have an acute and chronic negative impact on the indoor
air quality of commercial and residential buildings. The first company in the moisture
PALM SPRINGS BASED FIRM FORMS STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH inspection industry vertical to become a publicly traded company, ESP has embarked on
LABORERS’ INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA a strategy to acquire businesses dealing with environmental issues. It has completed four
Environmental Service Professionals, Inc. (“ESP”) (OTC.BB:EVSP), known as an acquisitions and is in various stages of discussion with additional companies that management
innovator in environmental home inspections, announced that it has signed a Memorandum believes are a good philosophical, operational and economic fit with ESP.
of Understanding with the Laborers’ International Union of North America (“LIUNA”) in
which LIUNA will assist the company with procuring full service environmental home SAN FRANCISCO ARCHITECT JIM JENNINGS KICKS OFF
2009-2010 ADC LECTURE SERIES
The Architecture and Design Council of the Palm Springs Art Museum will present Jim
Jennings, the renowned San Francisco architect, as the first guest lecturer of their 2009-2010
Lecture Series. Jennings will kick off the annual lecture series on Saturday, October 24
at 5:30 p.m. at the Annenberg Theatre.
In 2008, the American Academy of Arts and Letters honored Jim Jennings’s three
decades of practice with its Academy Award for Architecture. Jennings is known for an
unwavering sensibility; one critic described him as “the quintessential Bay Area Modernist”
for the coolly sensuous rigor of his work. His projects have been internationally published and
widely exhibited. A jury assembled by the Wall Street Journal in December named Jennings’s
Visiting Artists House, an artists-in-residence facility in northern California, one of the “five
most influential and inspiring houses of the past decade.”
The Architecture & Design Council, the largest and fastest growing council of the Palm
Springs Art Museum, is comprised of trendsetting tastemakers, arbiters of architecture and
design, and noted professionals. The annual ADC Lecture Series presents a dynamic,
stimulating series of lectures covering a diverse range of topics by engaging and entertaining
speakers. For tickets and more information, visit www.psmusuem.org or call 325-4490.
DESERTARC ANNOUNCES GRAND OPENING
OF RETAIL STORE IN PALM DESERT
Bucking the trend, DesertArc is opening a new retail store outlet in Palm Desert. The store
will feature fashionable clothing items that are produced by staff and clients of DesertArc, a
nonprofit agency that serves 550 people with developmental disabilities. A grand opening will
on October 8. The store is located at 77-682 Country Club Drive, Suite C, just northwest of
Washington Street.
Richard Sells, Director of Business Operations, is excited about the opportunity to
showcase new business lines that are offered by the organization for sale to the general
public. “We have taken the next step in expanding our business lines by opening this
retail outlet. New lines include apparel for school, team uniforms and medical scrubs. While
we produce the clothing for sale, the garment manufacturers include popular names such as
Cherokee, Landau and Urbane. There is also a fantastic collection of men’s and women’s
apparel, tee shirts to polo shirts, and hats to golf towels. And our prices can’t be beat. We can
embroider or screen print any item.”
DesertArc’s mission is to enhance the quality of life for people with developmental
disabilities. Sales from DesertArc businesses help support the employment and training of
DesertArc’s clients.
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