Children's charm bracelet
The reason: they were the first batch of school students to board The Times of India Sharad Parikrama 2008 buses and begin their pandal-hopping joyride.
Industrialist Sanjay Budhia and fashion designer Kiran Uttam Ghosh flagged off the trip for the first group of school children on Monday. Ghosh recalled how she wore choice new clothes to go pandal hopping with friends. It is a noble thing to provide these children an opportunity to enjoy puja celebrations. Pandal hopping remains just as exciting and retains the same old charm. I am happy to be a part of this initiative, she said while flagging off the buses.
The trip was organized for children from Anand Library, St Lawrence Night School and Soropetimist International of South Kolkata (IPER). For many, it was their first pandal-hopping trip
It didn't need to be big or fancy, just a place where Jennifer Davis, an attorney, and Craig Davis, an Everett police officer, could take their three kids, Hayden, 9, Abigail, 7, and Grace, 4, and make some memories.
The dream stayed just that, until Jennifer Davis looked, really looked, at her son hurtling toward adolescence. They needed to decide on that cottage or it wouldn't be a part of his childhood.
Then they heard you could buy an older home and have it delivered.
The little house at 540 Alverson didn't know it, but after half a century it was about to take a road trip.
'Jaw down, mouth open'
Sometimes on the way to a job, someone will eye Casjen Cramer's orange fluorescent coveralls with the orange fluorescent stripes and ask him what he does for a living.
'I'll say, 'We're house movers,' and they'll say, 'Oh, you move furniture.' And I'll say, 'No, no, we move the whole house.'
'The reaction varies, but mostly it's jaw down, mouth open.'
Cramer works for Nickel Bros., a company that specializes in moving houses and other super-sized loads. The Canada-based company opened an office in Everett in 2006, its fourth in the state.
The house on Alverson offered good bones and curb charm. Nickel Bros. agreed to buy it from the Finley family.
For Nickel Bros., Everett is ripe with opportunity: a city stocked with aging historic homes and despite the downturn in the economy, a city likely to grow, said Jeff McCord, a company sales representative. As land becomes more valuable, older homes -- especially those with waterfront views -- often become teardowns.
McCord, whose business cards read 'house rescuer,' believes what his company does is far better than homes crunched by bulldozers
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