Tables turned on once-treasured china
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These dishes are dated.
The teacups and teapots, shakers and saucers are relics from another time, covered in blue pears, orange peaches and wince-worthy florals.
In a warehouse filled floor-to-ceiling with dishes, Scott Roe picks up a square dinner plate covered in pink and yellow flowers, part of a Royal Winton Summertime set.
"Eight or 10 years ago, this would have been worth about $200," he says. Now, it's closer to $50.
Roe is president of Old China Patterns, a dinnerware replacement service based in Pickering. At 42, he represents the third generation of a family business his grandmother started in 1966.
But there are fewer dining rooms and more working mothers then there were in 1966.
Ask Roe or anybody else who deals in old china, be it antique, discontinued or simply inherited, and they will tell you the industry has changed. It has been battered by microwave-to-dishwasher living and Ikea, by casual over fine dining and electronics over fine dinnerware.
Source: Toronto Star
Stimulus money paid $15448.11 for dishwasher
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A
dishwasher has been purchased for $15,448.11 by Marshall County officials, and Monday non-stop some of them finalized the deal with money from the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The ARRA funds, otherwise known as federal trade stimulus money, came to Marshal County through a U.S. Worry of Agriculture Food Service Equipment Grant, according to a devotedness unanimously approved by county commissioners.
Sponsored by County Commissioner Larry McKnight, the purposefulness transferred $15,448.11 in stimulus money to the county budget's Subsistence Service Expenditures account for the brand new Insinger dishwasher at Westhills Basic School.
"It is not like a dishwasher you would find in your home," says Larissa Delk, edibles service director for county schools, and Westhills cafeteria overseer June Flowers substantiates the point.
"We run 800-additional trays a day" through the dishwasher, Flowers said of the oversized plastic plates utilized by young students who buy a school lunch.
Source: Marshall County Tribune