By Olivia Anderson | oanderson@alextimes.com Glenn Eugster's first introduction to Fort Ward Park occurred at 5 a.m. when he awoke one morning in 2006 to shrill
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Note from author, Tom Fulton’s: I have a comprehensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics and modus operandi, making the story unusual in that it tells the tale from both sides. The first excerpt tells of how a mixed group of guerrilla recruits and trained escorts encounter some hardships during their exfiltration to Mozambique for training.
“As the flatness of the terrain also defied the deployment of security force observation posts, it was possible for the group to light in a small campfire. This little indulgence assisted in keeping the wild animals and mosquitoes at bay.
They sat around on the first evening, with a feeling of more relaxation than the preceding week. All removed their footwear as Tadios watched. The men whom he predicted would encounter problems suffered terrible discomfort in those first few days. Blisters deteriorated to open sores, and Aaron administered to the worst afflicted with liberal quantities of antiseptic ointment, but this never stopped the
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net
Over the first several weeks of 2021, Independence city officials will consider a proposed apartment complex development across the street from Bass Pro Shops.
Case Development hopes to build a 275-unit, 23-building complex on Bass Pro Drive, on 13.5 vacant acres south of Mardel and Hobby Lobby.
Speaking to the Planning Commission last month, representatives of Case Development did not mention a project cost, but they are not asking for any public subsidy or tax assistance.
The market-rate apartments would be nearly evenly split between one- and two-bedroom units, with rents ranging from about $1,000 to $1,300, according to city documents, with garages, a clubhouse and pool and design characteristics similar to Bass Pro. The complex would have three restricted entrances off Bass Pro Drive.