Voters should decide nursing home's fate
Monday May 5, 2008
I am upset with members of the Champaign County Board. I guess they have forgotten that we voted for a property tax increase for the county nursing home. Voters should be the only one authorized to decide if it should be sold. And I say no.
On Jan. 31, 2007, both city and state sent letters announcing that day was Marjorie Benjamin Day. My 101-year-old grandmother has been a resident at the county nursing home for over 9 years. She was not born and reared here, but she adopted this community and through her years of volunteering, she was honored. She is just one of more than 200 people who reside there.
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