Nursing home project goes before board

The review process on a proposed senior housing campus in Upper Allen Township is moving too fast for at least one potential neighbor.That is how Elaine Daly sees the plan by the Hollinger Group of Mechanicsburg to develop eight acres zoned medium density residential adjacent to her back yard at 385 Alison Ave."I do not object to senior housing, but this is very huge ... There is nothing like that in this part of the township," said Daly during a phone interview Monday."People need to know what is going on to see if this is what they want," she added. "Open it up so people can look at what could happen."As Daly puts it, the proposal would put almost 100 senior apartment units and 48 nursing home rooms "smack dab in the middle" of a residential neighborhood close to Elmwood Elementary School.

Nursing home group opposes stockyards

The proposed relocation of Blue Grass Stockyards to Midway "puts at severe risk" the plans for a new nursing home/assisted-living center in that Woodford County town, according to a non-profit task force that has worked eight years to make the nursing home a reality.

For that reason and others, the Midway City Council passed a resolution this week asking Woodford Fiscal Court to withdraw the fiscal court's application for a text amendment in the county zoning law that would allow the stockyards to move to an industrial park north of Interstate 64.

That amendment must be recommended by the county planning commission and approved by the Midway City Council before the stockyards could move from Lexington.

A public hearing on the text amendment is scheduled for Feb.

Nursing home group opposes stockyards

The proposed relocation of Blue Grass Stockyards to Midway "puts at severe risk" the plans for a new nursing home/assisted-living center in that Woodford County town, according to a non-profit task force that has worked eight years to make the nursing home a reality.

For that reason and others, the Midway City Council passed a resolution this week asking Woodford Fiscal Court to withdraw the fiscal court's application for a text amendment in the county zoning law that would allow the stockyards to move to an industrial park north of Interstate 64.

That amendment must be recommended by the county planning commission and approved by the Midway City Council before the stockyards could move from Lexington.

A public hearing on the text amendment is scheduled for Feb.

Retirement industry heads to Olympia

Legislation aimed at providing guardianship protection and protection from unqualified individuals selling living trusts, as well as the biennial battle to procure more money for health-care providers, top the retirement-related agenda at the Washington Legislatures 2007 session. Richard Sayre, a principal in the law firm of Sayre & Sayre PS, of Spokane, says a proposal to form a state-run public guardianship program, similar to such programs in many other states, would benefit senior citizens who need, but cant afford, a guardian, and also would save money for the state. Guardians often are employed to help the elderly take care of their health and financial affairs. With the program we have now, the court appoints a guardian for elderly individuals who have no children around and no money to pay for a guardian, says Sayre, whos a trustee for the elder-care section of the Washington State Bar Association.