Columns
Editor's Column
by Tim Benjamin
Summer’s half over already
and I have not even made it to the beach once. That’s a bit
of a joke, really: the beach is not a place where I usually spend
my time in the summer or any other season. I much more enjoy walking
around the neighborhood with my wife and my dogs. But I have not
made the time to do much getting around the neighborhood either.
It is either too hot or there’s something else on the agenda
to keep me busy Do you find yourself busy, too, in the supposedly
relaxed “good old summertime”?
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Home Access Answers
Getting from the Cabin to the Lake
by Jane Hampton, CID, Access Specialist
Dear Jane,
We have owned a cabin in northern
Minnesota for several years. We have a steep hill down to the lake.
As we continue to age, the slope is becoming more and more difficult
for us to navigate. It has always been our desire to sell our existing
home in the Twin Cities after retirement and live at the cabin permanently
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Living Independently
Summer Travel Ideas
by Lisa Schmidtke
With traffic reports during
the 4th of July weekend telling of jammed highways and RVs in abundance,
it’s obvious that despite the rising gas prices people are
still traveling. According to Access for All (AFA), a Minnesota nonprofit
devoted to making travel easier for persons with disabilities, there
are 126,360 travel/tourism jobs in Minnesota, thanks to the millions
of dollars that tourists pump into the state economy ... read
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