| Pipe bursts in Jackson Township nursing home, causes ceiling to ...
JACKSON TWP. The unusually low temperatures Tuesday apparently caused a pipe elbow to burst in the third-floor room of the Canton Regency Retirement Community, leading to a ceiling collapse, the township fire department said. Township Fire Captain Mike Sibila said that the pipe had been dripping in Room 305 of the nursing home at 4515 22nd St. NW and someone had set a bucket below it, before it burst around 6 p.m. No one was hurt, and no one was in the room. Sibila said he didnt know if anyone had been staying in the room. The burst pipe caused the dry wall in the ceiling to collapse, and the water leaked into the room below, he said. Firefighters laid down some tarps. .
N.O. homeless, disabled housing facility is unveiled
What was once a dilapidated, abandoned motel at the corner of Magnolia and Felicity streets has been transformed into a 40-unit permanent supportive housing facility for people who are homeless and disabled. In ribbon-cutting ceremonies Thursday, Mayor Ray Nagin praised the public-private partnership, saying Magnolia Villa is the type of redevelopment project the city desperately needs. It is one of the first new housing facilities built for the homeless since Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city. "It was an abandoned motel in the city, so this is the kind of thing we should be doing all over the city to take advantage of situations and properties that have been dilapidated and put them into good use," Nagin said. Magnolia Villa will house single males and females who are living on the street or in emergency shelters.
Family faces deportation after living in US for 14 years
Glendora High School senior Maria Moran had a bright future in mind, but her plans are looking less clear now. The 17-year-old honor student was accepted at San Francisco State University, where she planned to study food science. She dreamed of opening her own vegetarian restaurant chain. But last October, Maria and her family learned U.S. immigration authorities had denied their 14-year-old application for political asylum. Now, the family of four is facing deportation to Guatemala, a country and culture they know little about. Both Maria and her brother, said their English is better than their Spanish. Because of their immigration status, they have not been back to Guatemala since they were toddlers. "She's so American," said Elly Pettygrove, Moran's friend and fellow Glendora High student.
Woman's stroke unleashed a poet
These are not descriptions you would normally use for an 88-year-old woman. Not for someone living in a rest home, albeit a nice one. However, that's who Alice Yost is and that's, in the current vernacular, where she stays at. Yost has written more than 2,000 poems. Two thousand poems in the last three years. She makes Keats, Yeats and Wordsworth look like they were on strike. Eight years ago she had a stroke. Turns out, we should all have strokes. Her mind was fine, but her legs were holding her back. After the stroke, Yost, who lived in Davis at the time, looked around for something else to do that did not involve playing full-court defense. Six years ago, at the age of 82, she signed up for an amateur writing class from a professor at UC Davis. "When I joined the class, I didn't think I'd ever be a writer," Yost said.
Mixed reviews for proposed senior living community
Traffic, lighting and tree coverage were among the issues residents raised during the first public hearing on the New England Deaconess Association’s proposal for a senior living community at the former BIIC property off Route 2. The association formally presented its detailed plans for the 197-unit project, broken down between a congregate building, a number of clustered cottages, two existing buildings on site and a 30-unit rental building that counts toward affordable housing, at the Planning Board meeting Jan. 31. The board will revisit the issue at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 28, in Town Offices and will conduct a site walk at 19 Cambridge Turnpike at 10 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 11. The proposal, named The Groves of Lincoln after the grove of apple trees on the site that many have asked be protected, remains similar to that which Town Meeting voted on last fall.
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