Looking for coffee, I find something even more wonderful.
Every year I am part of something called "NaNoWriMo" in November. November is National Novel Writing Month, hence the catchy title. The goal – and you can visit the Website if you want more information – is to write a 50,000 word novel between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30. There are no prizes and no one else reads the book; it's something I do just for me. Everyone knows, of course, you need coffee to write, so that's why I find myself seeking out a coffee shop. I'm ready to write, and my editor has told me about a nifty little coffee shop by Westshore Pizza on Hercules Avenue and Drew Street. I found a little coffee shop called Manos right where I expected to find a coffee shop. There's something about chilly weather that makes me want to curl up …
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The city earned an “Outstanding Achievement in Innovation” award for substituting an organic industrial byproduct for a chemical to treat wastewater.
Rob Powers is the industrial pretreatment coordinator for the city’s public works department. Part of his job is to evaluate limits of the industrial byproducts in the wastewater stream. Too much of them can upset the biological plant process. One part of this is using carbon to remove nitrogen. Too much nitrogen can disrupt water environments. Powers recognized that an organic byproduct that coffee syrup manufacturer Monin was throwing away was similar to a chemical the city used to remove nitrogen levels when treating wastewater. “The idea to use an alternative chemical is not uncommon in our industry,” Powers said in a release. “What is new is that our new carbon source is a processing byproduct of one of our local industries and not …
