Dayton – October 14, 2026 -- Organizations that shred confidential records without a certificate of destruction may be unable to prove compliance during audits or investigations, according to Dayton, Ohio, document shredding expert Rhet Crowe in a HelloNation feature.

Certificates give auditors documented proof that shredding met professional standards

Crowe says shredding alone is not enough. The certificate is formal evidence that confidential documents were securely destroyed, which matters most for financial reports, medical files and legal paperwork. Without it, businesses may struggle to meet documentation requirements or defend their practices under scrutiny.

Denver – October 14, 2026 -- CFi Solutions has launched gridl by CFi, a single system that gives ag retailers, grain elevators and manufacturers one platform for managing customers and daily operations, and it comes at no extra charge for dealers who finance with CFi.

gridl links customer records to quotes, orders, inventory, invoicing and grain storage

The platform connects customer and farm records to the quotes, orders, inventory, invoicing and grain storage behind each sale. CFi financing is integrated into the same system, so dealers can offer financing as part of every sale.

CFi describes the product as a replacement for fragmented setups. Many ag businesses currently run separate systems for customers, inventory, orders and financing, and fill the gaps with spreadsheets.

Homestead – October 14, 2026 -- The Redland Company and City Engineering Contractors (CEC) have formed a strategic partnership that combines more than 330 employees and company-owned heavy equipment to offer sitework and utility services across South Florida.

Partnership covers projects from 100-acre industrial sites to high-rise footprints

The alliance gives developers and general contractors a single source for mass earthwork and high-density urban site utilities. The firms say they can now handle projects ranging from 100-acre industrial sites to tight high-rise footprints in metropolitan centers.

Both companies keep their names, leadership teams and field staff, a structure intended to maintain continuity for existing clients.

Lebanon – October 14, 2026 -- Medical and physical therapy students at Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU) in Oregon are mentoring rural high schoolers twice a month through the MIKE Program, a workforce-pipeline pilot that began in Sweet Home in 2020.

Sweet Home request in 2018 led to the 2020 rural pilot

MIKE is a non-profit that educates and mentors youth on healthy living and health care careers. It started in the Portland area and now serves urban and rural communities across Oregon and Southwest Washington. Sweet Home asked in 2018 for a peer-to-peer program linking its high school with the medical school. The partnership launched two years later as a pilot for rural communities.

Students from the Heatherington College of Osteopathic Medicine (HCOM) and the College of Health Sciences-Northwest (CHS-Northwest) volunteer as mentors. Physical therapy students have since joined the original medical student cohort.

Washington – October 14, 2026 -- The American Land Title Association (ALTA) has inducted Craig Haskins, a title insurance executive with more than 30 years of industry experience, as president for the 2026-2027 association year.

Haskins runs Knight Barry Title across four states

Haskins is president and CEO of Milwaukee-based Knight Barry Title, where he oversees operations and growth across Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan and Florida.

Within ALTA, he has served on the Board of Governors and as vice chair of the Best Practices Work Group, as well as on numerous committees and engagement groups. He currently sits on the board of directors of the Florida Land Title Association and previously served as president of the Wisconsin Land Title Association.

Arlington, Va. – October 14, 2026 -- The American Institutes for Research (AIR) has hired neuroscientist Gayathri "Gaya" Dowling, who for more than a decade directed the $500 million Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study, to lead its 100-year AI Century Study on how artificial intelligence shapes human development, education and opportunity.

Dowling brings a decade of large-scale longitudinal study management to AIR

Dowling has led the ABCD Study since its inception in 2015. The project is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and led by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). It follows nearly 12,000 students from late childhood through adolescence into young adulthood, tracking biological and behavioral development.

Vancouver – – October 14, 2026 -- SAGA Metals Corp. (TSXV: SAGA) has completed an 85-hole, 22,432-metre drill program at the Trapper Zone of its Radar Titanium-Vanadium-Iron Project in Labrador, with every hole intersecting oxide mineralization. The final assays, from holes R-0088 to R-0092, give the company a complete database for the maiden resource estimate, which is due in Q4 2026.

Three Trapper North holes return intervals of 470 to 495.6 metres

Hole R-0085 returned 495.6 metres of mineralization grading 37.86% Fe2O3, 5.51% TiO2 and 0.273% V2O5. That includes 68.2 metres at 52.95% Fe2O3, 8.57% TiO2 and 0.381% V2O5. R-0075 delivered 485.4 metres and R-0072 returned 470 metres.

At Trapper South, R-0046 cut 127.9 metres at 52.94% Fe2O3, 7.35% TiO2 and 0.388% V2O5. A 54-metre section within it graded 58.33% Fe2O3, 8.78% TiO2 and 0.415% V2O5.

Geneva – October 14, 2026 -- Mercuria Group has agreed to a AUD 40,000,000 prepayment to Heritage Minerals, securing offtake rights to the first 210,000 ounces of gold in doré produced at the Mount Morgan mine in Queensland, Australia.

Mercuria locks in four years of Mount Morgan doré output

The offtake runs over a period of 4 years. Production is due to commence in Q4 2026, which makes the facility a financing bridge into the mine's restart of operations.

The prepayment and offtake structure ties Mercuria's capital directly to physical gold deliveries from the site. The source does not disclose pricing terms, repayment mechanics or the pace of ramp-up.

Belleville – – October 14, 2026 -- Illinois American Water put 125 employees to work at 13 local organizations last month, logging more than 475 volunteer hours during its AmerICANs In Action! Month of Service.

The projects addressed food insecurity, neighborhood revitalization, environmental stewardship, youth needs and community health in communities the utility serves. Company President Rebecca Losli described the program as a commitment to living out company values through local giving.

Volunteers packed 5,500 diapers and sorted food donations

In Champaign, volunteers packed more than 5,500 diapers for the Bottom Line Diaper Bank through United Way of Champaign County. At Eastern Illinois Foodbank in Urbana, which provided 11.7 million meals to nearly 200 agencies and programs in the past year, they sorted donations.

Salt Lake City – October 14, 2026 -- TruGolf Links Franchising, LLC has signed an intercompany agreement with Polymath Research Inc. to move its capitalization table onto Polymesh, a regulated blockchain, as the franchise network works toward more than 221 committed locations.

TruGolf Holdings (NASDAQ: TRUG) owns both parties. The agreement came six days after TruGolf closed its acquisition of Polymath on October 8, 2026. It is the first Polymath engagement signed inside the combined company.