Comments on: Opportunity: Gas Station For Sale in Spencer, S.D. http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/ a journey towards building world's first fully integrated town Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:07:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Sharon Loudenburg http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-302 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:51:04 +0000 http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-302 I was just mailing a package from the Spencer Post Office, and as I drove down the main street, I thought how wonderful it will be to have so many more people in our midst. I live outside the town, but am there every day taking my child to the local daycare. My opinion is: Come to Spencer! Enjoy the great life we have here! If you don't like the idea of a signing town, live where you want. But if you are a positive person who can follow your dreams, you are welcome to be my neighbor. If you're worried about another tornado, Dorothy, then go someplace else. But look out for earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the worse menace, high crime rates. Best of luck to everyone! I was just mailing a package from the Spencer Post Office, and as I drove down the main street, I thought how wonderful it will be to have so many more people in our midst. I live outside the town, but am there every day taking my child to the local daycare.

My opinion is: Come to Spencer! Enjoy the great life we have here! If you don’t like the idea of a signing town, live where you want. But if you are a positive person who can follow your dreams, you are welcome to be my neighbor.

If you’re worried about another tornado, Dorothy, then go someplace else. But look out for earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and of course the worse menace, high crime rates. Best of luck to everyone!

]]> by: Lisa http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-301 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:42:34 +0000 http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-301 All Blind? All short people (short buildings everywhere) Now you get the picture... All Blind? All short people (short buildings everywhere) Now you get the picture…

]]> by: Lisa http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-300 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:38:35 +0000 http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-300 Gas station? Come on! You know there isn't ONE single city in the whole U.S.A. that is All Black, or All White, or All Chinese, or even ALL Jewish... how can you start up a city that is All Deaf? Give it up, go to a major city and get started small and let it grow. Gas station? Come on! You know there isn’t ONE single city in the whole U.S.A. that is All Black, or All White, or All Chinese, or even ALL Jewish… how can you start up a city that is All Deaf? Give it up, go to a major city and get started small and let it grow.

]]> by: Barbara Hawk http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-292 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:12:04 +0000 http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-292 I think this is a marvelous opportunity! I am forwarding it to everyone I know, many of whom know a number of people in the extended deaf community, to see if anyone knows of someone with such skills! If everyone who reads Marvin's blog forwards this to everyone they know.... If people connected with the Laurent Institute or friendly to the the deaf/signing community owned this gas station, it would provide a meeting place, a focus for people who moved in. BTW, is someone connected with Laurent, or someone on the reservation list planning to run a signing school for those who live or want to live in the community who don't sign, and/or for those who live elsewhere and might want to experience signing immersion? Where ever the community is finally located? I think this is a marvelous opportunity! I am forwarding it to everyone I know, many of whom know a number of people in the extended deaf community, to see if anyone knows of someone with such skills!

If everyone who reads Marvin’s blog forwards this to everyone they know….

If people connected with the Laurent Institute or friendly to the the deaf/signing community owned this gas station, it would provide a meeting place, a focus for people who moved in.

BTW, is someone connected with Laurent, or someone on the reservation list planning to run a signing school for those who live or want to live in the community who don’t sign, and/or for those who live elsewhere and might want to experience signing immersion? Where ever the community is finally located?

]]> by: Paul J Kiel http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-291 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:52:15 +0000 http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-291 I recommend studying urbanism and consider locating near Deaf school as a population control. Laurent sounds exciting and what are the solutions to make it work? Where is the beef? Economy is on the brink! The war has usurped all the available money and is in defecit that looms everyday. The republican screwed up everything. Not wanting to be naysayer, we have to look harder at other options. I used to be resident advisor at Gally/NTID. I used to be apartment manager of properties consisting over several hundred disabled/deaf groups (families) in St. Louis, MO, Columbus, OH and Baltimore, MD. I have visited other apartment facilities around the country from California to Florida. It is "human dynamics" that bring Deaf together. That's fine. There are some flaws in the process, but it can be ironed out. Have you talked to HUD about housing? FHA about home financing? and many other government agencies to cover various parts of township? Of course, it is RED tape, but if you know the connections, the road map will be shorter! Smile! Paul I recommend studying urbanism and consider locating near Deaf school as a population control.

Laurent sounds exciting and what are the solutions to make it work?

Where is the beef?

Economy is on the brink! The war has usurped all the available money and is in defecit that looms everyday. The republican screwed up everything.

Not wanting to be naysayer, we have to look harder at other options. I used to be resident advisor at Gally/NTID. I used to be apartment manager of properties consisting over several hundred disabled/deaf groups (families) in St. Louis, MO, Columbus, OH and Baltimore, MD. I have visited other apartment facilities around the country from California to Florida.

It is “human dynamics” that bring Deaf together. That’s fine. There are some flaws in the process, but it can be ironed out.

Have you talked to HUD about housing? FHA about home financing? and many other government agencies to cover various parts of township?

Of course, it is RED tape, but if you know the connections, the road map will be shorter!

Smile!

Paul

]]> by: Richard Roehm http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-290 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:28:15 +0000 http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-290 We already have a 'signing town' and that's in Washington D.C. We already have a ’signing town’ and that’s in Washington D.C.

]]> by: Richard Roehm http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-289 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:27:10 +0000 http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-289 Spencer is tornado alley. Spencer is tornado alley.

]]> by: DT http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-288 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:20:44 +0000 http://www.laurentsd.com/2006/11/30/opportunity-gas-station-for-sale-in-spencer-sd/#comment-288 What happened to the idea of Laurent? Why would backers be more attracted to Spencer than Laurent? What happened to the idea of Laurent? Why would backers be more attracted to Spencer than Laurent?

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