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The Columbus City Council voted Tuesday to declare Foliage Farms as surplus property and take bids from those interested in individual pieces, the whole property, or both.The move follows a presentation, last week, from Paul Broussard, deputy director for Michigan-based Trinity Village Nonprofit Housing Corp.Broussard said the company wants to build several modern modular homes, at least 1,200 square feet in size, on the property.The homes would be built using federal tax credits and would provide homes for residents earning between $13,000 and $40,000 a year, depending on family size.“We may donate the property to a bona fide not-for-profit corporation, like Habitat for Humanity," Armstrong said. “We can do this, but you also have the authority to declare it to be surplus property and put it out for sealed bids.
Thursday's record-breaking windstorm slammed Vashon Island with a vengeance, toppling hundreds of trees that crashed into homes, pulled down miles of power lines and left roads closed, driveways blocked and some people shivering in their homes for days. By early Friday morning, the entire Island was without power, and trees and branches were strewn everywhere, making the storm, by some measures, the worst since the famous Columbus Day storm in 1962. One person was injured when a tree crashed onto his modular home on S.W. Cemetery Road and 110th Avenue S.W.; the man, who was not identified, was taken by ambulance to a hospital, according to Mike Kirk, a spokesman for Vashon Island Fire & Rescue. And a chimney fire broke out in a home on the 9300 block of S.W. Bank Road Saturday night, leaving the owners — newlyweds Mike Stroble and Krystal Willingham-Stroble — dazed and temporarily homeless but grateful to the firefighters.
The quick thinking of a 12-year-old Dunbar Township girl may have saved the life of her baby brother when she wrapped him in blankets and helped to hand him out the window of her family's burning home. Shortly after midnight Friday, Robert Gratson, of Dunbar Township, awoke to the smell of wood burning, but in the mountainous area of Dunbar Township, he was used to the smell and fell back to sleep. Five minutes later, the smoke odor was stronger, and he heard popping and crackling noises. When Gratson got up to investigate, he saw that the front porch of his modular home was on fire. A volunteer firefighter for years, Gratson was surprised by the ferocity of the blaze. He ran to grab his keys and wake up his family. .
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