| Seniors live in style at Cypress Meadows
The conventional image of a living facility for seniors is uninspiring at best: spare furnishings and severe design, all resulting in an indifferent atmosphere. But enter the lobby of the Cypress Meadows Assisted Living Facility and you’re struck by its timeless elegance and comfort more suggestive of a four-star hotel than a senior home.Cypress Meadows is furnished with wingback chairs, wooden tables with claw feet, scroll-patterned carpeting, a bold fireplace, floral arrangements and refined décor, all in a color scheme of rich reds, golden yellows and forest green.The 84,000-square-foot complex at 3950 Lone Tree Way, across the street from Sutter Delta Medical Center, contains 110 suites, three levels and 65 staff members."Cypress Meadows Assisted Living Facility has gained a reputation over the years as the place to be," said founder Vincent Malfitano.
License of Huntsville assisted living facility suspended
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. An emergency order of license suspension was issued for a Huntsville assisted living facility today after investigators found that some of its elderly residents were severely underweight and there had been reports of abuse by staff members. Officials with the Alabama Department of Public Health began investigating Pine Crest Estate in January and also found that cognitively impaired residents have left the facility's secured perimeter without supervision on at least two instances. W. Joe Hacker, owner and administrator at Pine Crest, said the investigation resulted from a familial dispute involving one of the residents and her family members who were suing each other for custody of her. He said the facility was "caught in the middle." Hacker said he learned of an evacuation order at 10 a.m.
Laying Waste to Everything
And if anyone, like the Venezuelan Synod, still had any doubts as to what his “socialism" means, he recommended reading Karl Marx and Lenin. Chávez defined the four engines that he will be driving forward: a) Socialist Constitutional Reform; b) education of the people to “rout the old values of capitalism and individualism"; c) the new geometry of power over the people's map to achieve a “symmetrical relationship throughout the nation's territory (goodbye to decentralization and the autonomy of regional and municipal governments); and d) “the revolutionary explosion of community power" (read another way of getting each and every citizen to toe the autocrat's line). And lastly, he confirmed the closure of RCTV and any other communication medium that opposes him.
Economic growth strategies for city, rural areas aired
A workshop to discuss goals for economic development was held Tuesday by Canton officials. Some strategies were offered by the county engineer and the executive director of Spoon River Partnership for Economic Development.Alderman Joe Berardi commented if a prospective business came to town and he were asked where to direct it, he would point out the five-acre spot at the northeast corner of the old International Harvester site which has been cleared for development, along with other local commercial areas targeted for growth.Fulton County Engineer Bill Kuhn briefly described a three-pronged strategy: develop a regional vision, attract private investment, and take advantage of opportunity. He also discussed four "vision targets." .
Planned retirement home stirs fears of water runoff
Engineers for a Mechanicsburg company seeking to build a retirement facility in Upper Allen Twp. promised potential neighbors last night that the facility would not worsen storm-water runoff. The project could even help, Rick Castriano of Alpha Consulting Engineers said during a public hearing that preceded last night's township commissioners meeting. "Township ordinances and state law won't allow any runoff to affect the neighbors," Castriano said in response to concerns voiced by the three neighborhood residents at the hearing. He said the developers likely would work with Mechanicsburg officials to find solutions to drainage problems. The project, proposed by the Hollinger Group, involves 8.6 acres east of Shepherdstown Road and south of East Elmwood Avenue, along the border with Mechanicsburg.
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