Taste of the Town tonight

This is a great event to benefit Historic Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, which is undergoing a major renovation right now.

Click this link for more information.

The landscaped median is coming along nicely #ILM

Wilmington Based PPD - Pharmaceutical Product Dwvelopment - turns 25

Here's the story from NC Bio-Tech News. Downtown Wilmington's largest private sector employee celebrates 25 years in business.



Web site Biotech Companies Jobs in NC
PPD Celebrates 25 Years

Wilmington-based contract research organization PPD is observing its 25th anniversary.

During the quarter-century since its 1985 founding as a one-person consulting firm by Fred Eshelman, PPD has expanded its services, technologies and geographic reach through acquisitions and organic growth. It went public in early 1996.

Today, the firm employs more than 10,500 people -- some 2,000 of them in North Carolina. It has 85 offices, clinics and labs in 40 countries.

PPD delivers a full range of discovery, development and laboratory services to biopharmaceutical and medical device companies and academic and government organizations across the globe.

Read the full news release

Posted: February 2, 2010

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Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDTAXkCBMS0&feature=youtube_gdata

John Hinnant
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Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgwH34_rpvI&feature=youtube_gdata

John Hinnant
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Great media coverage for a downtown Wilmington entrepreneur

Click the link for the story and photo credit - via Star News -

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100129/ARTICLES/100129616/1002?Title=Mark-Bryant-8217-s-passion-for-quality-overflows-in-workmanship-

What do you think they'll find?

Well- here ya go! Look closely, the building in the background is the
Trust Building.

I took this picture of the trench in the Front Street Improvement Project. I was in front of the alley between the old Tom's Drug and Momentum Surf Shop.

The blue pipe in the back ground is the new water main, so I'll assume the big line running parallel in the foreground is an old water line. The question is, what is bisecting it ...

It looks like a sewer line, but I need to confirm. We thought yesterday there was an artesian well in the area because of the water pooling. But as a layman (me) I guess this intersection of pipes is likely the source.

I sent the Director of Public Services an email tonight betting how many more junctions like this we'll find. If we find at least 5 more, he owes me lunch ...