A report on a difficult deadline in the Hotel Intervention Program
The hotel that’s closing is the Lodge. Actually it’s a motel, a former Knights Inn on Westnedge Avenue that’s recently been home to dozens of people. Once closed, Kalamazoo’s LIFT Foundation, which recently bought the building, will set to work transforming it into 60 affordable units, to be known as the LodgeHouse.
That’s great news for a city in need of more affordable housing. But it also means the current residents need to leave. People like Terry Harkness.
“I’m overwhelmed”
Harkness, who’s 57, sits in his room on the second floor of the Lodge. He taps a pack of cigarettes on a table as he recalls an encounter a few months ago with a couple of social workers.
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Crusaders Cullen Grace, left, and George Bower defend against the Blues in Christchurch last month. “He s really made the most of his opportunity.it s pretty special for him to go on and have higher honours potentially. He fronts in games like this, finals, that s when the All Blacks selectors will be really looking at it. Really happy with how he s gone, he s leaving his mark well there,” Ryan said. “I just look at work rate, first and foremost [when scouting]. I back myself to coach them how to scrum, but if they ve got work rate and a real hunger to get off the ground and work hard in the first few steps, it s a pretty good indicator.”
Blues strike late to see off final-bound Chiefs.
One-test All Black Braydon Ennor may force Crusaders coach Scott Robertson to give some poor soul the dreaded tap on the shoulder this week. Ennor did enough in 60 minutes for his University club at the weekend to convince Robertson he should be considered for the Super Rugby Aotearoa final against the Chiefs in Christchurch on Saturday night, despite not having played first-class footy since rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament in the North versus South match in early September.
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Braydon Ennor has been able to use his speed and power to good effect for the Crusaders since his debut season in 2018, and will be available for Super Rugby Aotearoa final against the Chiefs on Saturday night.
The Boutique Lawyer Show: Building an efficient practice
By Robyn Tongol|26 April 2021
Lawyers, Tim Perry says, are ultimately in a service industry, and they must remove as many barriers as possible in order to provide expertise to the best of one’s ability and in ways that best serve client needs.
In this special episode of The Boutique Lawyer Show, produced in collaboration with Thomson Reuters and recorded at the 2021 Boutique Law Summit, host Jerome Doraisamy is joined by Thomson Reuters Practical Law director (Asia and Emerging Markets) Tim Perry to discuss the need for law firm owners to consider and explore ways through which they can streamline their business and make them as efficient as possible, so as to better serve clients, eliminate risk and achieve optimal outcomes.