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NEW YORK, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Foster The People have announced a partnership with the transportable community services venture: The Do Good Bus. In effort to pay it forward, Foster The People have asked the Do Good Bus to join them in participating in local community service work on their fall tour, which starts September 13th in Scottsdale, AZ and ends on October 20th in Los Angeles, Ca. In each of the 22 cities on the tour, The Do Good Bus and Foster The People will work...

NEW YORK, March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The enormously successful Foster & Friends Hitman show is returning to Las Vegas for a series of shows at the Mandalay Bay Events Center with the first two performances scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1st and on Thanksgiving Weekend Friday, Nov. 25th. Tickets are scheduled to go on sale in May. Foster, the multi-talented 16-time GRAMMY winning producer, songwriter and maestro of ceremonies will once again host a lineup of talent including a return...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- L.B. Foster Company (Nasdaq: FSTR) of Pittsburgh, PA announced that its Birmingham, Alabama steel line pipe coating facility has achieved one million man hours without a Lost Time Accident. No work-related injury or illness has prevented employees from fulfilling scheduled work shifts since March 26, 2001. "Our Birmingham team has achieved an incredible accomplishment by maintaining 10 successful years of proactive safety in their work environment,"...

West Market, Inc. has launched Terms on Time, a software as a service (SaaS) application designed to help suppliers get paid on time by making it easy for customers to receive and pay invoices. San Diego, CA (PRWEB) October 27, 2010 West Market, Inc. has launched Terms on Time, a software as a service (SaaS) application designed to help suppliers get paid on time by making it easy for their customers to receive and schedule invoice payments. "Terms on Time revolutionizes the process of...

NEW YORK, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- New Yorkers For Children (NYFC) announces that newly signed All-Pro Linebacker for the New York Giants, Keith Bulluck, will be honored with the Nicholas Scoppetta Child Welfare Award at the NYFC 2010 Fall Gala for his work with youth in foster care. The NYFC Fall Gala benefiting youth in foster care in New York City will take place on September 21st at Cipriani 42. Past honorees include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mary J. Blige, Geoffrey...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CXT, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of L.B. Foster Company (Nasdaq: FSTR) of Pittsburgh, PA has been awarded a contract by City of Calgary Light Rail Transit (LRT) to supply 14,500 CXT Concrete Ties and fastening systems for use in the construction of line extensions to expand the system to the Northwest and Northeast of Calgary, Alberta. CXT Concrete Ties began shipping for this project in June from L.B. Foster's Spokane, WA facility and will...

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- L.B. Foster Company (Nasdaq: FSTR), headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, is providing steel sheet piling for improvements to the Ports of Indiana-Burns Harbor. The Port has awarded a $3.7 million contract to L.B. Foster for PZC 26, PZC 18, PZ 40 and PS 31 sheet piling for use in new dock wall construction in the West Harbor area. The Harbor is located 30 miles east of Chicago, enabling shippers to transport products by truck, rail, barge, ship or...

CHICAGO, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Child welfare officials and advocates, foster parents, and supporters from throughout Illinois will gather tomorrow at 10:30 am at Loyola University Chicago School of Law (Kasbeer Hall, 25 East Pearson Street) to launch this year's Foster Kids Are Our Kids campaign. In It For The Kids TV commercials will air on WGN featuring local individuals sharing the joys and challenges of foster parenting. Norma and George, Norma and Jose, and Treena, share their...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Extra-Ordinary Life (XOL), a new charitable initiative founded by entrepreneur Stacie Turner, kicks off the year with a life-changing program that benefits DC area teen girls living in foster care. The luncheon held last Friday, themed, "Journey to South Africa: 165 Days to The World Cup", is the first of several upcoming events intended to raise money to take 15 DC area teen girls currently living in foster care, on a life-altering trip to South Africa...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- L.B. Foster Company (Nasdaq: FSTR) of Pittsburgh, PA has been awarded a $20.5 million contract to supply Gerdau Ameristeel sheet piling to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) for use in the construction of the Panama Canal Expansion. The successful bidder for the PAC-4 contract opening later this year will install the piling for the excavation of the Pacific Access Channel and the construction of the Borinquen Dam. Gerdau Ameristeel's PS 31 flat...