| Aid for low-income Martin residents may be on way
STUART Displaced mobile home residents in Martin County might benefit from a proposed housing development just one of the ways officials are trying to help. As part of final negotiations next week on plans for a Hobe Sound project known as Atlantic Ridge Preserve, Commissioner Lee Weberman is asking the developer to contribute to the beginnings of a low- income housing fund. It's the latest effort by county officials to find help for low-income residents who are being pushed out of their mobile homes. .
Troubled Times at Tom Monaghan's Ave Maria U
Tom Monaghan's Ave Maria University, located in the friendly confines of the still-under-construction Ave Maria Town in Florida has been the subject of unwanted headlines during the past few weeks. Within the space of 48 hours, one of the university's top administrators, Provost Joseph Fessio, was fired and then rehired. Will the laws of the community be reflective of religious dogma and thereby end up restricting the rights of people who are religious minorities in the community? Details of the original firing are still murky. At first it appeared that Fessio, founder of Ignatius Press in San Francisco (the primary English-language publisher of Pope Benedict XVI) and the University of San Francisco's Ignatius Institute, wasn't up to the task of enrolling enough students or raising the necessary money for building the first new Catholic university in the U.S.
Nature's nightmare
HOLLY - Much of this small Southeastern Colorado town still had no electricity Thursday as residents began cleaning up the wreckage caused by a devastating tornado that killed a 29-year-old mother of two, destroyed at least five homes and damaged at least 50 more Wednesday night. Homes in this town of about 1,000 people were reduced to splintered wood and mere bricks as the 600-foot-wide tornado - which came without warning - ripped a path through Holly, which is located about 4 miles west of the Kansas border on U.S. 50. The tornado struck about 8 p.m. and yanked Rosemary Rosales, 29, and her 3-year-old daughter, Noelia Puga, from her husband's grasp as the twister shredded their modular home. Rosales and the child were flung into a nearby tree. Rosales was flown by helicopter to Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, but died of her injuries at about 5:30 a.m.
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