July 2009
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 Compass Airlines cuts ribbon on Louisville maintenance facility
Louisville's energy-conservation program applauded by U.S. mayors
National Institutes of Health to fund University of Louisville autism study
Dawn Foods cooks up plan for growth
Atkinson pupils set sights on college early
JCTC goes global
'We are going to play basketball here in 2010'
Compass Airlines cuts ribbon on Louisville maintenance facility
 Compass Airlines, one of nine airlines that makes up the Delta Connection, recently cut the ribbon on a $9 million maintenance facility at Louisville International Airport.
The hangar, which will eventually employ about 70 people, has room to work on up to three aircraft per night for Compass. Compass has a fleet of 36 Embraer 175 jets, each seating 76 passengers. Read more.
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Louisville's energy-conservation program applauded by U.S. mayors
Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government's "Kilowatt Crackdown" program has received "Best Practice" recognition in the 2009 Mayors' Climate Protection Awards, sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
The awards program recognizes best practices designed to boost energy efficiency and reduce global warming.
The Kilowatt Crackdown program uses Energy Star tools and resources to help building owners improve energy efficiency while reducing operating costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Read more.
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National Institutes of Health to fund University of Louisville autism study
University of Louisville researchers have been awarded a grant of nearly one million dollars by the National Institutes of Health to fund a clinical trial related to autism.
The treatment combines magnetic stimulation with behavior therapy to ease the symptoms of autism, and researchers believe the treatment will help participants focus on therapy to improve social interactions, according to a news release. Read more.
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Dawn Foods cooks up plan for growth
 A Jackson, Mich.-based bakery company is considering an investment of more than $1 million to upgrade its Louisville plant and adding 20 workers to staff the renovated facility.
Dawn Food Products Inc., an international bakery supplier, has made wet and dry mixes for the baking industry since 1982. It currently employs 202 at its Louisville facility. Read more.
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Atkinson pupils set sights on college early
 Six-year-old Dustin Board isn't quite sure what he wants to be when he grows up, but he knows that 2021 is the year he will go to college.
Ask any of the 550 students at J.B. Atkinson Elementary School which year they will be going to college, and they'll tell you. It's as ingrained as learning to count or reciting their ABCs.
For the past few years, officials at the western Louisville school -- where 98 percent of students qualify for subsidized lunches -- have been working to inspire all of the students to think of college not as something they might do, but something they will do.
Their efforts, in cooperation with the University of Louisville, are raising students' expectations and cultivating their career interests. Read more.
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JCTC goes global
When Yaslin Pupo Morera arrived in Louisville from Cuba with her husband and twin sons two years ago she couldn't speak more than a word or two in English.
"I understood nothing," said Morera.
But this fall, thanks to an English as a Second Language class offered at Jefferson Community and Technical College, Morera will take her first college-credit course in English.
A growing number of newly arrived immigrants are enrolling in the community college's English as Second Language classes. Since fall 2006, ESL enrollment has increased 44 percent, from 330 to 474 students. Read more.
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'We are going to play basketball here in 2010'
 Five hundred days and counting.
With most of the initial concrete poured, the upper concourse framed and electrical work under way, Louisville's downtown arena is well on its way to meeting its November 2010 opening, according to project officials.
Contractors are spending about $500,000 a day to complete the project on time. They're employing roughly 300 workers daily and that number could increase to 600 as the project progresses. Read more.
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