| Harvest Partners Sells Evenflo Company, Inc.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvest Partners, LLC, a New York-based private equity investment firm specializing in management buyouts and growth financings of middle-market companies ("Harvest Partners"), announced today that it has sold Evenflo Company, Inc. ("Evenflo") to an affiliate of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm. Headquartered in Vandalia, Ohio, Evenflo is a leading manufacturer and marketer of infant and juvenile products. Committed to innovation, safety and education for more than 85 years, Evenflo has been the trusted name in everything babies need to grow, go, play and thrive. The Company's offerings include car seats, strollers, travel systems, safety gates, activity centers, and nursing products. Harvest Partners acquired Evenflo in August 2004 and subsequently recruited Robert Matteucci to join the Company in 2005.
Wide opposition to war energizes protests WASHINGTON: Jane Fonda ...
(01-28) 04:00 PST Washington -- Tens of thousands of protesters converged on the National Mall on Saturday to oppose President Bush's plan for a troop increase in Iraq in what organizers hoped would be one of the largest shows of anti-war sentiment in the nation's capital since the war began. The event drew demonstrators from across the country, and many said that in addition to taking their discontent to the streets, they planned to press members of Congress to oppose the war. "When we voted, it was a directive to bring our troops home now," said the Rev. Graylan Hagler of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, referring to the November elections in which Democrats won control of Congress. Demonstrators listened to speeches from a roster of politicians and entertainment figures, including the Rev.
Tangy flavors
Saturday, Tampa Bay area residents had their pick of two events: the 10th annual Kumquat Festival in Dade City or the Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa. One is Velcro sneakers. The other, "Where are my shoes?" One is lemonade. The other is beer from a keg pushed in a baby stroller. One is bras on. The other, bras intermittently on. About 35,000 people come to the Kumquat Festival. Somewhere around half a million go to Gasparilla. Here are some contrasting glimpses from both events. Gasparilla: 1:34 p.m.: A guy with red, unfocused eyes, with half a bra dangling from his right index finger, held up: "I've got ya a souvenir, man!" "Some girl, man!" "I took it from her!" Kumquat: 1:38: A man and two women in leather vests and chaps with fringe head back to their motorcycles.
Homefront: News for your life
A longtime resident groundhog continues to "winter" under my low-to-the-ground deck since two, count 'em, two professional trappers failed in their $200-quests to catch-and-release the big, fat fellow somewhere in a more perfect world. (At least, this is what those guys promised they'd do.) Obviously, this is one lone groundhog who prefers slumbering through winter with a wooden roof (my deck) over his tunnel. I just hope his digging under there will not lead water where it shouldn't be. Of course it will, so my solution may be to tear out the 20-year-old deck. It will cost less than more bogus trapping schemes, though a tree-trimmer working next door last summer saw the groundhog and advised not putting an apple in a humane trap. He said, "Groundhogs go wild for bananas." Really? I duly observed Groundhog Day on Friday by noting my boarder didn't bother to poke his button nose outside.
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