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Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
On this day — March 12
March 12, 1950, in The Star: Walter H. Wellborn of Piedmont Route 1 is in the running for a seat on the Calhoun County Board of Education, a position to which he was appointed around a year ago to fill the unexpired term of a retiring member. A native of Calhoun County, Mr. Wellborn was born in 1901 and has spent most of his life here. He's the son of M. B. Wellborn, former president of the First National Bank of Anniston. Walter Wellborn is a farmer and businessman, an Episcopalian by faith and chairman of the Red Cross drive in Jacksonville. Mr. Wellborn announced his candidacy for the post yesterday. Also on this date: An advertisement for Westinghouse television sets at Anniston Electric Company tries to entice the potential buyer with the promise he'll see Anniston-related sports programming tonight at 7:30. That's when Fred Sington of Birmingham station WAPI will interview Harold Cuyler, the popular young business manager of the Anniston Rams, about Anniston's professional baseball prospects for 1950. March 12, 2000, in The Star: The old thread mill that once held the Blue Mountain community together is finally unraveling. Earlier this month, the mill's present owner, Barbour Thread, announced it would lay off 214 of its employees in July, leaving only 110 jobs. Prospects for those lasting long are not good. The decline won't materially affect the town of Blue Mountain very much, as the mill removed itself from corporate limits years ago to avoid paying taxes to the town in which it was established. Also on this date: The Alabama Senate this week approved legislation that creates an 11th seat on the ten-person Jacksonville State University board of trustees. The at-large position makes room for Alabama singer Randy Owen, who was recently appointed by Gov. Don Siegelman. The legislation also stipulates that once a former JSU trustee reaches the age of 70, he or she may be designated by the board as a trustee emeritus.
CBC
06-03-2025
- Politics
- CBC
Northview says crime, vandalism rampant in its N.W.T. buildings
One of the north's biggest landlords is calling for changes to landlord-tenant law in the Northwest Territories, saying it's "drowning in this crisis" of constant vandalism and violence plaguing its buildings in Yellowknife and Inuvik. "The filth and destruction leave many of these units completely unlivable," said Northview Residential Reit regional director Colleen Wellborn Wednesday. Wellborn was speaking to a committee of MLAs. Her presentation included photos of units with torn-out drywall, garbage, graffiti and damaged floors. Wellborn said Northview has spent up to $50,000 to repair a single unit. She said she knows of three units that have required extensive repairs twice in the same year. "The destruction is constant. Glass is shattered within hours of being replaced. Fire extinguishers and hoses stolen from cabinets within 24 hours. Common areas are smashed and graffitied and stairwells are left littered with trash and cigarette butts." Northview leases many of its units to social agencies that provide homes for people who would otherwise be homeless, or provide subsidized housing for people on low incomes. Wellborn said many of those tenants are not being provided with the supports they need. "Our security contractor speaks to tenants regularly and has been told that often individuals are living on the street and accessing the shelter one day, and then placed in a unit the next day," Wellborn told the MLAs. "In some cases, they are given an air mattress, blanket and keys and told to enjoy their new accommodation." Yellowknife MLA Shauna Morgan suggested that it may be clients from the Housing First program that Wellborn was referring to. "I guess I would ask if there are instances brought to your attention that someone is being left without any support, I would wonder whether you would bring that to the attention of your Housing First partners and say, 'Hey, there's someone struggling here," said Morgan. Wellborn said she's in touch with people administering the program but is not that familiar with it. "I don't really know what the program entails, in terms of I don't know the process of how people are selected or what supports are provided," she said. "I've asked for that information, because I'm curious, but I don't know if it's furniture, job coaching, addictions — I have no idea." Wellborn said crime is rampant in Northview buildings in the Northwest Territories. "Violence can erupt at any moment. Tenants and Northview employees routinely stumble into chaotic, high-risk situations with little to no warning," she said. "Drug dealing and open drug use are so rampant that during a routine inspection, our vice-president of operations was exposed to second-hand crack smoke." Wellborn told MLAs the rules around tenancy need to change to provide landlords with a faster way to remove tenants that are a danger to the safety of others. She recommended introducing mechanisms that are in place in Yukon, B.C. and Alberta, where landlords can apply for an emergency hearing for tenants who are endangering life, property or safety systems, such as fire alarms. She said under the current system, destructive tenants can continue causing damage while Northview pursues remedies under the Residential Tenancies Act.
