[il-talk] Fw: Article from Chicago Tribune News 2013 11 01

Tue Nov 5 18:25:06 UTC 2013

That's good, Rob!  It's not fair  what  that the woman had to endure!  We 
have to keep advocating and get the word out to the right people, so tthese 
kinds of things don't keep happening to the Blind or any other Disabled 
person!    Sincerely, Linda

-----Original Message----- 
From: Rob Kaiser
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 12:04 AM
To: NFB of Illinois Mailing List
Subject: Re: [il-talk] Fw: Article from Chicago Tribune News 2013 11 01

I agree with you Robert. We need to let blind people know what is happening
to other blind people. I forwarded the article to several people as well as
the nfb of California listserve.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Robert Hansen (NFB Related)
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 4:53 PM
To: Jemal Powell ; NFB of Illinois Mailing List
Subject: Re: [il-talk] Fw: Article from Chicago Tribune News 2013 11 01

At the bottom of this email it says we are not to forward this sttuff.
I wonder about that.  I know we do anyway.

Just wondering

RH

On 11/4/2013 6:26 PM, Jemal Powell wrote:
> Here is a sad, but unfortunate article  from the Chicago Tribune, about a 
> blind woman.
>
>
> ----- Forwarded Message -----
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> To: Jemal Powell <derek2872 at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 1, 2013 7:35 PM
> Subject: Article from Chicago Tribune News 2013 11 01
>
>
>
> Blind woman faces abrupt eviction \ Home's land sold for $43 after church 
> doesn't pay taxes. By Carlos Sadovi, Tribune reporter; WGN-TV 
> contributed.. A blind woman is facing eviction from her northwest Indiana 
> home of 55 years after the land it sits on was bought at a tax sale for 
> $43 without her knowledge. . She got screwed on this bad," said Lake 
> County Treasurer John Petalas. The new owner has filed eviction papers in 
> court and, in the meantime, is charging Dolores Pittman, 67, $300 a month 
> to remain in the house in Cedar Lake, about 50 miles from Chicago. She has 
> been paying that amount since May but it's a hardship, she said. 
> Previously she had been paying $10 a year to the town to rent the land. If 
> I had money, I'd just say, 'To hell with it,' and go off someplace," said 
> Pittman, a former librarian. An attorney is looking into the matter but 
> has told her it doesn't look good, she said. Pittman said she moved into 
> the home with her parents when she
>   was 12. It was four days before Christmas, and my little brother was 4. 
> And we moved in during a snowstorm and the first thing I put up was the 
> Christmas tree because it was important that Santa knew where to come," 
> Pittman said. It was security that we had a house. My mother said she just 
> wanted a house that she knew she could die in. At first, her parents 
> rented the home from a Lake County, Ind., church, the Lake Region 
> Christian Assembly, which used the land as a retreat. The home -- but not 
> the land -- was sold to her family for about $16,000 in the late 1970s or 
> early 1980s, she said. The family paid a $10 annual rental fee to the town 
> of Cedar Lake, which they believed had acquired the property from the 
> church, she said. But over the years, the church claimed to still own the 
> property. The church did not pay property taxes. (The church) just didn't 
> pay the taxes, I never got a notice," she said. All the time they (the 
> town) were saying they owned
>   the property. I was paying rent to the town. Pittman said she was never 
> told that the dispute was eventually settled in the church's favor, and 
> she continued paying the $10 to the town. About three years ago, the land 
> was sold at a tax sale for $43. Pittman said she was never notified by 
> officials. Petalas, the Lake County treasurer, said the church had 
> conveyed land to the town but not -- it turned out -- the property 
> underneath the home. The land underneath the home was still owned by the 
> church. Until 2005, the church was not responsible for paying property 
> taxes because it had a not-for-profit status, he said. Then changes in 
> state law removed such status from vacant property and the church was 
> issued tax bills, he said. But the church never paid them. So in 2009, the 
> land went to a county commissioner sale and (it was bought)," Petalas 
> said. They (the church) just ignored it. Cedar Lake's town manager, Ian 
> Nicolini, could not explain why the town
>   still collected a rental fee from Pittman when it no longer laid claim 
> to the property. He declined further comment on the tax sale, saying the 
> town is being sued by the person who bought the land. The owner could not 
> be reached for comment. Nicolini said officials have been working to "make 
> the transition" comfortable for Pittman. While she appreciates people who 
> want to help her, Pittman said through tears that she doesn't want to 
> leave her home: "I want to know, am I going to be in here on Christmas or 
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