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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Employees of an Australian bus company have been given a 15 mil- lion Australian dollar ($16 million) share of the proceeds of the business sale as a thank-you for their loyalty, an executive and a newspaper said Wednesday. e 1,800 staff at Melbourne-based Grenda Corp. have received bonuses averaging more than AU$8,300 and as much as AU$30,000 after the Grenda family sold the 66-year-old business for AU$400 million, the Herald Sun newspaper reported. Chief executive Geoff Grenda described the gratitude of staff — one of whom had been with the company for 52 years — as “overwhelming.” “We sat down and thought: ‘how can we thank the people that have got us to where we’re going to end up?’ and it was a fairly easy decision for us,” Grenda told Nine Network televi- sion, referring to his father Ken and brother Scott. “We’ve had lots of loyal people over our 66-year journey and this was our way of rewarding the ones that are still with us,” he added. Geoff Grenda could not be imme- diately contacted for comment on Wednesday. e staff will keep their jobs under the new owner, Ventura, the news- paper said. A bus driver identified only as Heath told the newspaper that some staff had telephoned their banks assum- ing an error had been made after the bonuses were paid directly into their accounts. “Good bosses are hard to find and Ken was a very good boss — one of a kind,” Heath said. Copyright 2012 e Associated Press. BUFORD (678) 714-1435 thiS WeiRd WORLD Just our way of saying thanks for being there. No Cost To You Becoming a Distrubution Partner is free. All you have to do is agree to let us set up our countertop stand or leave a stack of newsletters in a conspicuous location. CALL 770-315-9727 OR EMAIL [email protected] TO GET STARTED TODAY. 4122 Buford Dr Buford, GA 30518-3440 GREAT RATES ARE AVAILABLE FOR THIS SPACE! Take your LOCAL marekting to the next level. Call TODAY! 770.315.9727 “...she stated she wanted to use the money to pay for dentures she was unable to get through welfare...” “...Good bosses are hard to find and Ken was a very good boss — one of a kind...”
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Employees of an Australian bus company have been given a 15 mil-lion Australian dollar ($16 million) share of the proceeds of the business sale as a thank-you for their loyalty, an executive and a newspaper said Wednesday.
The 1,800 staff at Melbourne-based Grenda Corp. have received bonuses averaging more than AU$8,300 and as much as AU$30,000 after the Grenda family sold the 66-year-old
business for AU$400 million, the Herald Sun newspaper reported.
Chief executive Geoff Grenda described the gratitude of staff — one of whom had been with the company for 52 years — as “overwhelming.”
“We sat down and thought: ‘how can we thank the people that have got us to where we’re going to end up?’ and it was a fairly easy decision for us,” Grenda told Nine Network televi-sion, referring to his father
Ken and brother Scott.
“We’ve had lots of loyal people over our 66-year journey and this was our way of rewarding the ones that are still with us,” he added.
Geoff Grenda could not be imme-diately contacted for comment on Wednesday.
The staff will keep their jobs under the new owner, Ventura, the news-paper said.
A bus driver identified only as Heath told the newspaper that some staff had telephoned their banks assum-ing an error had been made after the bonuses were paid directly into their accounts.
“Good bosses are hard to find and Ken was a very good boss — one of a kind,” Heath said.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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TOOTHLESS PA. BANK ROBBER SAYS SHE NEEDED DENTURESWAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) — A woman who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and told po-lice she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.
Evelyn Marie Fuller, 49, remained in a jail Wednesday unable to post bond on bank robbery and other charges filed a day earlier by police in Waynesburg, in western Pennsyl-vania, where she’s accused of robbing the First National Bank on Jan. 20.
Arresting Officer Tom Ankrom said Fuller, of Carmichaels, about 10 miles east, explained her motives when she confessed to the crime.
“During her confession, she stated she wanted to use the money to pay for dentures she was unable to get
through welfare until next year,” An-krom said.
Police distributed a surveillance pho-to of the robber, who appeared to be toothless, and an unnamed witness went to police and told them he had loaned Fuller the coat the robber was seen wearing in the picture. The man told police Fuller returned the coat because the zipper didn’t work, and police said it matched one the robber
is wearing in the picture.
Fuller, at her arraignment Tuesday, told a district judge she has mental health problems and lives on disabil-ity benefits, the Observer-Reporter newspaper, of Washington, said Wednesday.
After her arraignment, she told a re-porter, “I’m very sorry for what I did, and I know God is going to punish me for it,” before explaining that her pastor told her to tell the truth about what she did.
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SHEEP HERDING SWEDISH BUNNY BECOMES ONLINE HIT STOCKHOLM (AP) — Champis the bunny doesn’t only hop — he also knows how to herd a flock of sheep, pos-sibly having picked up on the skill after watching trained dogs do the job.
The five-year old pet rabbit from north-ern Sweden has shot to fame online, gar-nering more than 700,000 YouTube hits since a clip of his sheep-herding skills surfaced on a blog a week ago.
The June video shows a persistent Champis running back and forth to keep Nils-Erik and Greta Vigren’s sheep together.
Dan Westman, a sheepdog breeder and who shot and posted the video of his friends’ remarkable bunny, said Champ-is does the job even better than some dogs. “It’s a herding rabbit. He rounds them up, and if they get close to escap-ing through the gate he sometimes stops them.”
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WRONG-NUMBER CALL HELPS OHIO WOMAN HAVING STROKE
ALEPPO, Pa. (AP) — A runaway elk can’t go home to Pennsylvania, even if it wanted to.
More than a year after the 3-year-old elk escaped from his paddock, he’s be-ing denied re-entry to the state from West Virginia.
George and Sharon Richter want the animal back but state officials say they’re worried it could be infected with chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious and fatal neurological dis-ease.
So far, the disease hasn’t been found in Pennsylvania. The only test for the disease involves killing the animal.
The Richters tell the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (http://bit.ly/zdbCmK ) the elk and two others escaped their Aleppo, Greene County farm when a gate was left unlocked. One elk even-tually returned but the other hasn’t been found.
Officials say the elk is currently being fed by residents in the area of Pleasant Valley, W.Va.
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CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio (AP) — A woman who called the wrong number when she suffered a stroke still found help a couple of time zones away.
Loretta Smith, of Cuyahoga Falls near Akron, felt her right side go numb and fell to the floor at her home last weekend.
The 70-year-old Smith said she was able to grab the phone with her left hand and thought she was calling her son. Instead, she was one digit off and reached a man in the Denver area who was originally from northeast Ohio and had kept the same number after he moved.
“It was a woman, and she said ‘I may be having a stroke,’” said Kenny Crater, 28, a sculpture major at Metropolitan State University in Denver.
Crater asked for her name and address and offered to get help. His 911 call was answered by Broomfield, Colo., police, who transferred his call to Cuyahoga Falls.
Smith was taken to Summa Western Re-serve Hospital in Cuyahoga Falls, where it was determined that she had suffered a mini-stroke, said Dr. Joseph Nienal-towski.
Smith said Crater saved her life. “I want this kid to be praised to high heaven,” she said.
Crater said Smith had done her part, too. “I do not feel like I have done anything special,” he said.
“I didn’t save her,” Crater said. “She found me.”
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PET ELK DENIED RE-ENTRY TO PENNSYLVANIA FROM W.VA.
