Residential developer will not purchase RTC property
21.09.11
Rather than transaction with regulations surrounding the Regional Treatment Center estate, an interested buyer of the six homes near Fir Avenue opted to give up on the stick out after the Fergus Falls City Council rejected his securing proposal Monday.
Paul Renner, of Lake Realm Developers, has been in talks with the city about purchasing the six homes, demolishing them and construction two upscale apartments in the area. Lakes Country Developers has developed alike resemble apartment complexes in Detroit Lakes and Park Rapids. Many of the apartments would have been three-bedroom units, utilities would have been included in the hire out and a non-coin operated washer and dryer would have been in every unit — all part of a “family companionable” approach Renner believes would benefit the town, where most apartment complexes are older and have fewer rooms.
“I’ve got to credit there are a number of people in Fergus Falls looking for apartments like this,” he said, pointing out inquiry he’s done showing that most such apartments in the city are currently occupied.
Source: Fergus Falls Daily Journal
When the villains don't wear black hats, it's not so simple
11.09.11
@blurb-inset refer, editors not:Mary Anaemic and her husband live in Brandon, near Malone. They have five children and way too many animals. Mary Whitish has worked with children and families for the past 25 years as a caseworker, train and counselor. This is the second in a series of six weekly articles.
By MARY Innocent
Special to the Times
I believe that mixed feelings are the hardest to preside over; give me a strong hate or a straight repulsion any day. Its when emotions become mish-moshy that I stagger when love is coupled with hate, need with shyness, empathy with contempt.
In counseling kids, I find the murky situations the most haunting. Im not saying that remove abuse is easy to handle, but at least the options are clear; the feelings simpler. It is the household whose loyalties are ever-shifting, whose love is regularly mixed with apprehension and disappointment that I think is the most difficult all the more for the children. I about true despair lies in confusion.
Source: WatertownDailyTimes.com