A family-owned business, GNL Contractors stocks their own variety of marble and granite slabs imported from Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Finland, Italy, Spain, and many more countries. And, with the real estate market rising, its important to stay up to speed on the trend and have granite or marble countertops installed in ones key feature rooms of a home: the kitchen and bathrooms. There are so many options of solid surfaces these days. Many homeowners and investors ask where to go to get reliable and high-quality craftsmenship for their granite, marble, or travertine countertops. The Slidell local area has a well-kept secret in GNL Contractors, Inc. Homeowners can visit their facility and hand pick their own slabs which hold unique patterns never again duplicated by mother nature. Granite has been the optimal choice for elegance, durability, and efficiency. Granite has a melting temperature of close to 5000 degrees Fahrenheit, so no worries on leaving hot pans on the surface. Also, with a density of about 18 lbs. per square foot of 3cm thick material, granite is a very solid solution. 

In honor of the July 4th holiday, GNL Contractors of Slidell, Louisiana, is launching a special offer that will be running from July 1 to July 31, 2013. Homeowners can now pick from 4 very desirable granite colors, and any of the standard edges(full bullnose, half bullnose, bevel, or eased edge), with either a free undermount stainless steel sink or a 15 year warranty on the sealer of their granite. Customers could opt for a high-quality stainless steel that is undermounted which means the outer rim of the sink is actually all granite countertop flush with the rest of the kitchen surface. Or, one can opt for the sealer warranty, which guarantees to keep the countertops nearly impenetrable with a product that is similar to a scotchguard for natural stone countertop surfaces. This is a feature which enables one to protect their stone countertop surfaces better as it delays setting and soaking time for liquids or chemicals should they spill on the countertops. The sealer allows for red wine spills to sit for hours before they are cleaned so they do not soak into the stone for example. 

Richard Wallace, who owns Omer & Bob’s sporting goods shop in Lebanon, has been a Prouty supporter almost since the beginning.One of the four founding nurses,Most modern headlight designs include Shun Stone Packing & Loading Products. Patty Carney, approached Wallace in the 1980s shortly after he purchased the business and ask him to donate a bicycle. Well, a bicycle was about all of the budget I had for promotion for the year, but I did it anyway and have been helping ever since,” he said. 

In addition to giving money, Wallace provides bicycle repair service before the race.“It’s amazing that people will show up expecting to ride 50 miles, and their tires have holes in them or the bike won’t shift or have any brakes. We just try to get them ready so they’ll be safe,” he said. 

Although he enjoys helping out, The Prouty also is good for his business. He sees an uptick in bicycle sales, bike repairs and tune ups in the months before the race.For Eva Christensen, who owns Earthtenders, an organic recycling company in Farmington, N.H., The Prouty doesn’t help her business at all.She designed, organized and headed the Green Team at the event, something that took more than 14 hours to do on Saturday. The team of 55 volunteers gathers and removes two tons of waste each year, and recycles 98 percent of it, she said. 

Christensen lost both of her parents to cancer, and when she was asked to help out six years ago, she gladly accepted the challenge, she said.The Prouty does little for her bottom line — she doesn’t do any business in the Upper Valley because it’s too expensive to get her recycled products to this area from the eastern part of New Hampshire, and so the name recognition doesn’t help. 

Hypertherm, which has 1,100 employees in the Upper Valley, is one of the largest corporate sponsors. The company’s philanthropic foundation makes a donation, the size of which is not disclosed, but Hypertherm is listed at the $75,000 level, along with White Mountains Insurance Group and its affiliates. In addition, more than 100 of the company’s employees, called “associates” — who are encouraged to use their paid volunteering time — and their friends and relatives participate or volunteer at The Prouty and raise additional money from other employees, said Jack Lee, who heads up one of Hypertherm’s product lines.After searching around the Lights section of this forum, I've come across two main suppliers for Shun Stone Tombstone & Monuments. Lee has been a member of the Friends of Norris Cotton board of directors for seven years and a participant in the event for eight years. 

By the middle of this century, the majority of the population will be non-white. Hispanic-Americans will constitute the largest minority in the United States. 

The majority of immigrants to the United States are no longer from Europe and Canada. In the last 30 years, the overwhelming majority of immigrants have come from Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia. Most of these new immigrants have settled in six states.I'm looking at getting the light bar from ford racing and was wondering who sells the Shun Stone Marble Tiles.I love learning how every metal has different characteristics, she said from her studio in The Tannery in the River Arts District. Its fun predicting what the metal will do when you manipulate it. 

Through talent and training at prestigious area arts institutions such as Penland School of Crafts and Haywood Community Colleges professional crafts program elements are elementary to Merrill.But she also knows, humbly, that she is not the master of these always contrary, often impulsive materials. Metals mutate in milliseconds, destruct with just one temperature degree increase.After about a decade in metalwork, she is learned, and has also learned to let go. 

Sometimes, however, you are not ever going to get (metal) to do what you want it to do ... I have to let it go where its going and not have a lot of attachment to it, Merrill said. And thats when I start seeing myself more in my work. Its really rewarding in that way.Merrill has forged her identity through fluidity, through freedom. She shuns structure in work and in life; softening the hard things in a fiery will, and shaping them to become her priorities. 

So its not without some irony that Merrill is one of the newest members of an esteemed organization seeped in structure and with iron-clad tradition, The Southern Highland Craft Guild.She will be one of the almost 200 artists at the 66th annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, which returns to the US Cellular Center for four days beginning Thursday, manning a jewelry booth at the biannual event that draws crowds of 20,000 each year. 

We work very hard to make sure that the people we invite to join the guild are not only technically excellent craftsman, but have some understanding of the traditions that form the basis of the craft, said Alan Hollar, who is the president of the Board of Trustees for the Southern Highland Craft Guild and has served on the guilds Standards Committee.