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Natasha S. Alford ’08, president of the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW), said her organization ran into trouble finding a venue for their party “DejaVu” for the weekend of the Game...
...There was extreme difficulty in finding Houses...willing to cooperate in having parties in their House on Friday night and who did not have space already reserved by the HoCos,” Alford said. She added that ABHW tried to circumvent these problems by reserving the off-campus Democracy Center on 45 Mount Auburn St., but eventually secured Eliot House dining hall for their party...
...remodeling services in 2005, and now has the service in 700 of its 1,840 U.S. stores. "The growth of this category has been in the general neighborhood of 10%," says Mike Mullinax, national installation manager in the custom home-organization division of Home Depot. Indeed, says Greg Alford, a senior partner with the Peachtree Consulting Group, a market-research firm based in Atlanta, "garage-organization projects are the fastest-growing segment of the home [renovation] industry." The average cost of a Home Depot makeover is in the $1,000 to $2,000 range, says Mullinax, adding that the chain...
...fastest growth is coming from high-end jobs in the $10,000 range, according to Alford. Jaime Dietenhofer, a co-owner of Garage Envy, says his garage makeovers average about $8,000. Top-of-the-line garages tend to get fitted with doodads and gizmos, including custom-made shelving, enclosed cabinets, work benches and high-tech wall grids made of materials that can support hefty garage paraphernalia like bikes and lawn mowers. Some business owners are growing profits by manufacturing and distributing those products themselves. Often, however, the only way consumers can get those products is by hiring the companies...
...Association of Black Harvard Women and a member of BlackCAST. She also served as social chair of the Freshman Black Table. “She was one of our best members. She always had some great wisdom or insight at meetings,” said Natasha S. Alford ’08, also a member of the Association of Black Harvard Women. “As an upperclassman I looked up to her a lot.” Jason C.B. Lee ’08, who knew Ekperi through the Black Students’ Association, said...