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Dixfield selectman donate to House of Peace

13.09.11

DIXFIELD — Selectmen for the city of Dixfield voted to donate $200 from their contingency lolly to the House of Peace women's shelter.

Sharon Walker, who has been attempting to start a women's dwelling in Rumford, is asking for the money to help purchase a double-oven stove.

"I be convinced of this is a very good cause and we should support it," said Selectman Stephen Donahue.

A movability was made by Donahue to donate the $200 and Selectman Katherine Harvey agreed to in the flesh donate $100 to the cause.

Selectman Norine Clarke said she would passage the Dixfield Outdoor Market for donations. The Outdoor Exchange has donated funds to help support various hamlet programs including the Halloween walk, Santa's Helpers, and the Documented Society.

Walker hopes to gain status as a nonprofit so she can quest after grant money.

"It's not the big amounts that are going to help," Walker said. "It's all the itsy-bitsy amounts like donations that will get us up and running."

Source: Lewiston Sun Journal

Mills Farm: New phases opening in The Meadow and The Manor

17.09.11

A refer to through the winding streets of Mills Farm in southern Overland Park not only reveals the collective refinement of the neighborhood but also the continued success. With extensive landscaping, high-priced-end art and attention to detail, Mills Farm has secured its position as one of the top-selling new deeply communities in Johnson County.</p><p>New homes are going up in each of its three neighborhoods &#x2014; The Estates, The Manor and the Meadows &#x2014; and new amenities are being added to the multimillion-dollar amenities unite.</p><p>Because of strong sales this year, totaling more than $24 million since January 2011, new phases are job in The Manor and The Meadows. The vision of developer Matt Adam can be credited with this attainment, said Mindy Shane, who markets the community for Prudential Kansas Bishopric Realty along with David Mombello and Kerry Adam. Adam planned the community to take service better of its pastoral location and enhance it with landscaping, artwork and well-designed homes.</p><p> Capability buyers are welcomed to Mills Farm by six bronze horses frolicking in the median along the boulevard unequalled past luxury homes to the Residents Club, the centerpiece of Mills Land. Residents gather at the club throughout the year for a variety of activities. The multimillion-dollar clubhouse features a bon vivant kitchen, great room with fireplace and state-of-the-art competence center with men&#x2019;s and women&#x2019;s locker rooms. The nightclub overlooks the pool complex with a junior Olympic-evaluate pool, children&#x2019;s pool and infinity-bourn relaxing pool that spills over into a future lake justifiable beyond. </p><p>New community amenities are being added at the Residents Club complex. Inauguration this fall will be tennis courts, a basketball court, a sand flood ball court and a children&#x2019;s playground.</p><p>Within Mills Work the land, buyers may select from an array of homes, as well as home sites for a trade-built home from any of the approved builders. Mills Be killed has an open builder policy. Quality is ensured by the Make-up Review Committee. </p><p>In The Meadows buyers will find homes priced from $400,000s to $500,000s. Builders number Providence Homes, Starr Homes, James Engle Exclusively Homes, Lambie Custom Homes, Estes Patronage Homes, C&M Builders, Rodrock Homes, T. Hill Homes, Woodbridge Specially Homes, Covenant Homes and Roeser Homes.</p><p>The Manor offers homes priced from $500,000 to $900,000. Here buyers will find convenient homes by Starr Homes, Lambie Custom Homes, C & M Builders, Estes Levy Homes, James Engle Custom Homes, T. Hill Homes, Willis Construction, Covenant Homes, Koehler Edifice Co. and J. Larson Homes, as well as new home sites for custom-built homes.</p><p>The Estates, where accessible prices begin in the $800,000s, is hosting the Boulevard of Mirage Homes, sponsored by Kansas City Homes & Gardens periodical to benefit the Fox 4 WDAF-TV Love Fund for Children. Non-essential homes built by Starr Homes and Willis Construction are unlocked from noon to 6 p.m. through Sunday. Tickets cost $12 in go or $15 at the door and may be purchased at area Hen House grocery stores.</p><p>Both homes are 1 1/2 -falsehood designs with four bedrooms and four full bathrooms and a half-bath. The Willis Construction Territory has an open first-floor design with a dramatic two-story capacious room. The gourmet kitchen features a gas stove, double ovens, granite countertops, to order cabinetry and an island. A serving bar opens to the dining elbow-room.</p><p>The main level also has an office, a computer nook off the kitchen and a mudroom at the entr to the garage. The main-floor master suite opens onto a screened-in martini deck. Another deck off the eminent room features a fireplace and a bar for three-season outdoor living.</p><p>Painstaking landscaping leading to the entrance of the home built by Starr Homes features a fountain-head and small stream with a bridge leading to the front door. This adept in has the look of a mountain lodge with a two-story great dwell divided from the music room by a two-sided stone fireplace. The eager room opens onto a stone lanai with an outdoor pantry.</p><p>The gourmet kitchen has custom cabinetry, granite counters, working atoll, professional quality gas stove with double oven and a walk-in pantry concealed by rip off doors. Also on the main level are the master suite, dining accommodation and office. The second level features a media cubicle quarters as well as three bedrooms with en suite bathrooms and walk-in closets.</p><p>Additional homes close by in The Estates are under construction by Jim Larson LLC, Willis Construction, Covenant Homes, Koehler Construction Co. and Tim Cunningham Homes.</p><p>Mills Farm is in the Blue Valley Form District and is home to Timber Creek Elementary Nursery school, one of the newest in the district. Older students attend Aubrey Steer Middle School and Southwest Blue Valley Leading School, also new schools.</p><p><hr class="infobox-hr-separator" /> <div birth="infobox"> Mills Farm</p><p>&#x25A0; <fervent>Prices: </strong>The Estates from $800,000 and up, The Manor from $500,000s to $900,000s and The Field from $400,000s to $500,000s.</p><p>&#x25A0; <strong>Directions: </better than average>U.S. 69 south to 151st Street and turn suitable. Turn left on Switzer Road, right on 159th Drive and left on King into the community.</p><p>&#x25A0; <strong>Junction</strong>s: Mindy Shane, David Mombello or Kerry Adam at 913-239-8799 or 913-239-8589.</p><p>&#x25A0; <unwavering>Hours: </strong>10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and hours-5 p.m. Sunday. Boulevard of Dreams, noon-6 p.m. Sept. 10-11 and 15-18.</p><p>&#x25A0; <truculently>Web: </strong><a href="http://www.MillsFarm.net">www.MillsFarm.net</a>.</p><p></div>

Source: Kansas City Star