| Water hook-ups charges to double in Freeland water district
Getting access to Freeland water will cost double what it did last year for new customers. The Freeland Water and Sewer District is considering a resolution that will double its water hook-up rates beginning March 1. If approved, new customers will pay $2,000 more to tie into the Freeland water district's two wells. Water district commissioners are considering an increase in residential hook-up rates from $2,350 to $4,350, as well as an increase in commercial hookups from $2,500 to $4,500. Officials say the increases are necessary to fund past and future capital projects. The last increase was more than a decade ago. Currently, the Freeland Water District has 414 customers. The district has state approval to serve 550. However, the district is in the process of developing future well sites in the Freeland area, something that can take a decade or more to finalize.
New care homes create 100 jobs
A SHELTERED housing development is to open in South Wales, bringing 100 new jobs, it was announced yesterday. Sunrise Senior Living revealed plans to build a new residential development in Cyncoed, on the outskirts of Cardiff, employing 80 full-time staff and a further 20 part-time. It will be the company's first location in Wales. The company's sites offer specialist care for older people with Alzheimer's and dementia. The new development will house 86 residents, 18 of whom will be catered for by the company's Alzheimer's care scheme. Sunrise will now be recruiting for a variety of roles, including care workers, managers, chefs, housekeepers and maintenance staff. .
Are You Ready to Parent Your Parents?
Quick: can you answer the following: Do your parents have a will? Who will care for them if they become ill or incapacitated? How will you and your siblings share in that responsibility? Jim Comer, author of When Roles Reverse: A Guide to Parenting Your Parents (Hampton Roads Publishing, 2006), says that knowing the answers to questions like this can save families time, heartache and, perhaps most importantly, money they don't have to waste. "This book could save you $10,000, or much more," Comer said at a recent presentation to a packed audience at St. Edward's University in Austin . "But what it can save you in time and energy in finding the answers to your questions is priceless." In fact, there is an entire section of fifty questions Comer implores his readers not to ignore; questions like: can you legally take action on your parents' behalf in case of emergency? Are you authorized to make decisions on their behalf if they cannot? Do you have access to their medical and financial information to assist in transactions they are no longer capable of negotiating? Comer's book includes interviews with Elder Law attorneys to help readers negotiate the maze of legal cans and can'ts.
Longtime Forest Grove resident Rolla Bates, 103, dies
Rolla Bates, who celebrated her 103rd birthday last May and continued going to weekend church services until the end, died Sunday at The Grove Assisted Living in Forest Grove. She passed away "peacefully" after having lunch with family members, said Winnie Beu, Bates' daughter-in-law. "They were taking her back to her room and she just went," Beu said Monday. "Her heart just gave out." Bates was known for her sewing expertise, her years delivering meals to senior citizens and her dedication to Church Women United, an ecumenical religious organization. The petite, white-haired Bates drove her tan Buick well into her nineties and looked forward to daily visits from her son, Jack. Born in 1903 in Nelson, Neb., Rolla Grossman was the oldest of nine children.
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