The Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance Youth Conservation Corps

William Timperley has over a decade of experience as a custodian and currently maintains the facilities at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, a community just six miles northwest of Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to his custodial work, William Timperley volunteers with the Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance (AWWA) and its Youth Conservation Corps.

AWWA is a Union, New Hampshire-based nonprofit group that works to protect and restore the lakes and waterways throughout Wakefield, New Hampshire, and nearby Acton, Maine. In 2005, the organization launched its Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program, which conducts small-scale erosion control projects to prevent sediment from building up in local lakes.

The YCC also helps raise awareness about erosion and other environmental problems that landowners with waterfront properties face. In the YCC’s 10-year history, its high-school-aged volunteers and adult crew leaders have completed 667 erosion control projects that have helped keep an estimated 255 tons of sediment from entering 12 different bodies of water.

Protecting Lake Ivanhoe and Other Watersheds

A committed community member, William Timperley volunteers at Choate Medical Center and New England Rehabilitation Hospital. He also serves with the Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance, where he works with the Youth Conservation Corps. In this position, William Timperley guides young people in learning to work manually and how to protect the natural water supply.

The 68-acre body of water known as Lake Ivanhoe, or Round Pound, lies under the protection of the Acton Wakefield Watersheds Alliance (AWWA). Located north of Great East Lake in a 455-acre watershed, Lake Ivanhoe maintains its water quality partly due to the assistance of the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). Members of the YCC have helped to halt sediment from running into the lake and prevented excess phosphorus from polluting the water.

The AWWA aims to provide long-term protection to natural areas through watershed planning. The organization involves volunteers in guarding lake waters from toxins and ensuring local construction will not negatively impact the watershed, among other services. For more information about the ways AWWA works, visit http://awwatersheds.org/.

Three Phases of the New England Patriots History

William Timperley presently serves the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, Massachusetts, as a custodian. Outside of his work at the center, William Timperley follows New England Patriots football.

The history of the New England Patriots professional football franchise extends back to the 1960 American Football League (AFL) season. The team spent 10 seasons in the AFL as the Boston Patriots, making just one post-season appearance that ended with a 51-10 loss to the San Diego Chargers in the AFL Championship game.

After a year in the National Football League (NFL), the team took on the New England Patriots name. The franchise made its first NFL playoff run in 1976, losing a divisional playoff game after an 11-3 season.

Over the next 10 years, the Patriots made four additional post-season appearances, including a loss in the 1985 Super Bowl. Following the 1986 season, the team experienced a seven-year post-season drought.

The drought ended with a loss to the Cleveland Browns in a 1994 AFC wildcard game, after which New England would go on to reach three post seasons in four years. This run of success included a trip to the 1996 Super Bowl.

The Patriot’s greatest run of success began in 2001 when young quarterback Tom Brady and second-year head coach Bill Belichick led the team to its first Super Bowl win. Despite failing to make the playoffs the next year, the Patriots won a second Super Bowl in 2003 and a third in 2004.

Over the next decade, the Patriots would fail to qualify for the post season just once, a stretch that has included three additional trips to the Super Bowl and a fourth Super Bowl crown in 2014.

Raising Marine Debris Awareness

As a former custodian, William Timperley performed maintenance and janitorial duties for technology, education, manufacturing, and health care facilities. In addition to his professional activities, William Timperley’s volunteer efforts include assisting at animal shelters and cleaning beaches.

Beaches attract more than sunbathers, surfers, and swimmers. Add such debris as truck tires, furniture, and an endless stream of cigarette butts to the sights that litter beaches. Fortunately, thousands of citizens in coastal areas volunteer for scheduled events to clean beaches and raise public awareness about keeping America’s beaches clean and safe for humans and marine life.

Defined as any man-made material found in waterways and on coastlines, marine debris gathers from land and sea sources. Ultimately, human beings create and cause the accumulation of marine debris. The wind and tides carry inadequately secured trash cans, plastic bags and containers, fishing line, and a host of other trash, into rivers and oceans and onto beaches.

Business Programs at University of Massachusetts Lowell

William Timperley studied management at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s degree. While attending the university, William Timperley became a member of the Marketing Club, which also included students from Salem State University.

The Manning School of Business at the University of Massachusetts Lowell first opened in 1971 and currently provides students with a wide range of undergraduate degree programs to enroll in. The programs include accounting, management, management information systems, and marketing. Additional selections include supply chain and operation management as well as international business. The university currently features more than 1,700 students enrolled in a dual-concentration program, meaning they are combining their business education with a second undergraduate degree. Each program offered by the Manning School of Business is up to the accreditation standards of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International, which ranks as the highest form of accreditation for business schools.

Techniques for Pricing Antiques

An experienced building custodian, William Timperley also sold antiques for many years. William Timperley operated his own store until other responsibilities intervened and required him to close the store in 2005.

To maintain a profitable antiques business, one must first understand how to price an item both fairly and attractively. This process begins with extensive research. Resources such as published price guides and auction results give a general idea of the purchase price of similar items. Popular price guides include the industry standard, Kovel’s Antiques and Collectibles, and the bestselling Schroeder’s Antiques Price Guide, as well as Antique Trader, Miller’s Antiques Handbook and Price Guide, and several others. Online resources include the online version of the Kovel’s guide and a number of specialized guides for particular brands and categories of antiques.

Sellers can unearth additional pricing data by actively shopping online and at traditional brick-and-mortar stores and comparing prices. Comparison shopping will also help sellers understand market demand for the item, as well as the prevalence of imitations. Once sellers have a sense of what a certain item is selling for, they can then combine that data with information about their actual purchase price and selling expenses to determine a price that gives them a profit and potential buyers an attractive deal.