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Alonzo Lang made a life and raised his family at the Forest Park trailer court.
He built a smoker from a 55-gallon drum that can handle a whole hog. The garden beds now still buried under snow will be filled with vegetables and flowers in the summer. Last fall, he strung a moose carcass from a birch on his lot as he butchered it for freezer meat. He’s rehabbed his trailer down to its bones, invested time, money and effort into making it home.
“I love it out here,” Lang said, wearing camo pants and a T-shirt that reads “Free Hugs” as he stood in front of his home, constructed in 1968. “To look at it, it’s an old trailer, but if you go on...
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Yet another example that the scariest words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”. Some bureaucrats are making these 100 families homeless because they have decided – on their behalf – that they’d be better off homeless than living in the mobile home park. And, of course, in the background is probably a city council that is having a party and doing high-fives that the “trailer park” is being shut down and the land can now be made into classier and higher tax-paying apartments. What’s the true story? The park sure doesn’t look that bad in the photos..