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November 23rd, 2007 at 2:18 pm

Small home owner fights big developers

We’ve all heard stories about home owners who refuse to sell when big commercial projects are planned to be built around their property … well 86 year old Edith Macefield is another property owner who refused to move from her home when developers from Seattle decided to build a commercial property in her neighborhood.

Macefield refused an offer of 1 million dollars to move.

They’ve decided to go ahead with their project and her home will have a five story construction project around and beside her home.

“I don’t want to move. I don’t need the money. Money doesn’t mean anything,” she said.

There’s one house downtown here in Toronto that looks so tiny with a huge 20 story building almost on top of it. I imagine that Mrs. Macefield’s home will look like that too!





September 18th, 2007 at 12:50 am

Almost jailed for registering pet to vote

A Seattle woman recently copped a plea in order to avoid up to 90 days in jail. She’d been charged with registering her dog to vote.

The woman, Jane Balogh, had registered her Australian Shepherd-Terrier mix, Duncan m. McDonald when she put his name on her telephone bill as identification.

She was busted after she sent in an absentee ballot for the dog with a paw print as a signature.

What was she thinking?