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One of the many controversial signs Hercules Fence posts. This one was posted during Breast Cancer Awareness month.Inside the Hercules Fence company office, a bulletin board is covered with yellowed newspaper clippings from every time the business has drawn attention — often from out-of-town press.

Other controversial signs at Hercules Fence Co.:
*2005: During Violence Awareness Week: "Take your ex-wife out. One bullet oughta do it."

*2007: "What has four wheels and flies? A dead cripple in a wheelchair." Advocates for the disabled picketed outside the business. The principal at Hillcrest School, which works with disabled students, expressed dismay; the company had done fence work at the school.

The company’s manager, Mike Garza, said the business is eager to get some fresh clippings.

The 58-year-old business’s claim to notoriety has little to do with fences, but rather the messages it posts on a roadside sign at its 4660 SE Maricamp Road location.

Now comes the latest offering. During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, while many businesses are awash in pink ribbons and encouraging slogans, Hercules Fence has taken the opposite tack. The company posted on its sign a message to women that a breast inspection site is 20 feet ahead, and encourages them to display their breasts as they pass by.

Cary Socci: - owner of Future Fence Co. in MamaroneckCary Socci began his career in the fence installation industry at the most legendary concert in the country’s history.

It was 1969, and the then 20-year-old and a friend were commissioned by Bronx-based Gun Hill Fence Co. to fashion three miles of chain-link fence around the perimeter of Woodstock.

Patrick Jeffrey McBrideA 55-year-old Port Charlotte man and owner of Armor Fence Systems was charged with grand theft after at least seven cases were reported where homeowners paid for fencing jobs that were never done, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said.

Patrick Jeffrey McBride of 2083 Hanson St., charged him with one of those cases by the Economic Crimes Unit Monday, the sheriff’s office reports.

FFC Fencing Co., located in Cedar Lake, Indiana, was chosen to be part of the Interns for Indiana (IfI) program through Purdue University and accepted Cassie Gray from Wheatfield, Indiana, as their new marketing intern. IfI provides students with valuable educational experiences and gives companies access to some of the brightest young minds at Purdue University. To be qualified, a student must have a superior GPA, a junior standing or greater, and must be accepted through the Career Services Department of Purdue. Students that are accepted into the program work full-time during the summer.

Employees of Owasso Fence use a pneumatic fence post driver to repair storm-damaged fence at the University of Tulsa.TULSA – Edward Gibbs said he will draw strong profits this year from a niche the retailer fenced-in just three years ago.

In 2006 Gibbs expanded his company, Owasso Fence, into the rental market, adding a 50,000-linear-foot inventory of panel and post fence.

The experiment involved some risk, with panel fence costing $9 per linear foot, post fence $6. The product rents at less than half those rates over an average contract of 10 months, including setup and take-down costs.

But his timing couldn’t have been better. Construction under the $800 million Vision 2025 tax initiative hit high gear with the 18,000-seat BOK Center and several other projects, even as several million square feet of retail, hospitality, medical and industrial projects sprang out of the Tulsa-area hills.

The City of Pryor may replace the chain link fencing around the city pool.

The budget and personnel committee approved the purchase of chain link fencing in a Tuesday budget meeting.

Pending council approval, the city will buy the fencing from Just Fence It for $9,818.50. Other quotes were $10,014 from Liberty Fence, $18,527 from Empire Fence Company and $9,820 from Arrow Fencing Company.

Park Superintendent Frank Powell said Mayes County Health Department recommended replacing the fence around the city pool. The health department inspects the pool twice a year.

A McCall Commercial Fencing official blames haste for the natural gas leak that shut down much of downtown Bristol on Tuesday.

Company Vice President Brad Sorrow was supposed to have called underground utility regulator Tennessee One-Call for permission to dig in advance. That way, his construction crew would know where the danger was when digging fence posts behind the Kil’n Time pottery shop.

“The ball was dropped,” Sorrow said by telephone Tuesday.

Carolina Custom Fences is proud to offer bamboo fence installation at new discounted prices. By becoming a distributor of Calibamboo fencing products, Carolina Custom Fences can now pass on lower product costs to customers, making the bottom line of a fence installation much lower.

"Bamboo fencing used to be comparable in price with vinyl fencing," explains Scott Schulz, Owner of Carolina Custom Fences, "now it's more comparable to aluminum fencing, which is not much more expensive than a wood privacy fence."

House building is not the usual business of Atwood Fence Company of Kosciusko but as part of their philanthropic interests Kay Atwood decided to assist in the building of a Habitat for Humanity house in Jackson for a single mother and her son.

They say good fences make good neighbors, but sometimes good neighbors will help you make a good fence.

A small army of volunteers, all led by local fence company, went to the rescue this weekend of a local nonprofit in serious need of some good, strong fencing.

The recipient of the neighborly kindness was Saddles of Joy, a long-standing Yuma group that offers therapeutic horseback riding for children with special needs ranging from physical and learning to emotional and behavioral.