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14-05-2025
- Business
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Attorneys meeting with former Aspen Place residents
GARDNER, Kan. — Attorneys will meet with former tenants Tuesday night of a now condemned apartment complex in Gardner, Kansas. Last week, the City of Gardner condemned Aspen Place Apartments, saying they were unfit for living. The 180 families in the complex had 48 hours to vacate, and take all of their belongings. Community steps up to help after Gardner apartment condemned A Tuesday night meeting at the Hampton Inn Conference Center in Gardner is (KLS), a nonprofit law firm based in Topeka that currently represents 45 people at the apartments. 'In the space of landlord-tenant, there is not a level playing field,' Matthew Keenan, KLS's executive director, said. Keenan and his team of attorneys frequently represents low-income client in civil cases at no cost. KLS's Tuesday night meeting is meant to help tenants learn their rights, and to help many of them recover security deposits and last month's rent paid to Aspen Place. Keenan said, under these circumstances, Aspen Place is legally required to give those refunds. 'I've been in direct negotiations with the attorney for the landlord in an effort to make certain the tenants are treated fairly, and to make sure there isn't a waiver of rights or a release that they need to sign in order to get their rents or deposits back,' Keenan told FOX4. Some former Aspen Place residents are , where Lt. Nate Woodard can house 250 people per night. Woodard said he hasn't reached capacity yet, but he's concerned that's possible, since some hotel and short-term housing vouchers will expire soon. 'What I know is, the amount of affordable housing in Johnson County is few and far between. What I know is that some people are scraping their last pennies together. Their last dimes together,' Woodard said. Keenan added some displaced renters are being asked to pay large application fees as they search for new homes. Download the FOX4 News app on iPhone and Android A spokesperson for the City of Gardner said the city wants to help ensure these displaced residents' needs are met as they search for their next homes. Keenan clarifies — Aspen Place was not a Section Eight housing complex, but if it had been, he believes there would have been more oversight to prevent the bad conditions reported. He said someone should answer for this. He's trying to determine who. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
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Ryan Kwanten Battles Dinosaurs in Vietnam in ‘Primitive War' Trailer (Exclusive)
Ryan Kwanten, Jeremy Piven and fellow battle-hardened U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War discover dinosaurs among their deadly jungle enemies in the trailer for Primitive War. Luke Sparke's upcoming sci-fi horror pic is based on Ethan Pettus' book where American soldiers in an elite unit in Vietnam discover their enemies are not all human. 'Three days ago, I lost my Green berets. There was something going on in that battle,' Piven's character says at one point in the trailer. More from The Hollywood Reporter Cannes: Jeremy Piven to Lead Supernatural Gladiator Actioner 'Fight for Your Life' (Exclusive) #MeToo, Five Years Later: No One's Fully Returned From "Cancellation" - No, Not Even Louis C.K. (Analysis) Dolph Lundgren, Scott Adkins and Ryan Kwanten to Face Off in Action Movie 'Section Eight' (Exclusive) A logline from the film's producers adds about the mystery: 'Set in Vietnam in 1968, the Primitive War movie will follow a search and rescue team known as Vulture Squad sent to an isolated jungle valley to reveal the fate of a missing Green Beret platoon. As they hunt through the primordial depths of the valley and the casualties mount, the Vulture Squad members must embrace their savage instincts to survive the horrors they face, including the ultimate Apex predators, dinosaurs.' Australian director Sparke helmed, co-wrote the adapted script, produced, edited and production designed Primitive War. The ensemble cast includes Tricia Helfer, Nick Wechsler, Ana Thu Nguyen and Jake Ryan. 'Dinosaurs in the Vietnam war? What's not to love about that concept?! When I first heard about the books, I loved the ideas and concepts Ethan brought into them, and we're shaping our film version into an exciting survival-horror film,' Sparke said in a statement when first taking on the project in 2022. The Primitive War historical sci-fi military novel series includes Primitive War II: Animus Infernal and the upcoming third installment Primitive War III: Aeon Ouroboros. Carly Imrie, Zachary Garred and Alex Becconsall will produce the Primitive War film as they reteam with co-producer Sparke after Occupation: Rainfall, the franchise sequel that follows a group of survivors in Sydney fighting a desperate war two years after an extraterrestrial invasion. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked 20 Times the Oscars Got It Wrong The Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time
