SPOKANE, Wash. With fewer homes available in Spokane, creating new housing options is essential. Haystack Heights is a new type of neighborhood under construction right now. When finished, it will provide permanent housing for 39 families that are taking neighborhood living to new heights.
“I think it’s an opportunity for us to raise our family and share life in community,” said Bob Francis. He’ll be one of the new home owners in the development. This will be the first house him and his wife have owned.
Haystack Heights is quite a bit different from other neighborhoods. Its goal is to bring families closer together, conserve resources and share spaces. In this three-acre development nestled in the South Perry District, families own their own $200,000–$400,000 home, but common spaces like a garden, clubhouse and maintenance responsibilities are shared. Families have to volunteer a certain amount of hours per year and play an active role in the community’s planning. The
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Timaru Altrusa chairwoman Donna McColl, left, and Maria Mackay, of Oamaru, district governor, get ready for the 37th Altrusa International District Fifteen conference in Timaru.
Women from all over New Zealand have gathered in Timaru for the Altrusa International Incorporated District Fifteen annual conference. The district governor, Maria Mackay, of Oamaru, said it was an opportunity to meet up with old friends and make new friends. A total of 130 women were attending the conference, which Mackay said would include a programme of business and listening to keynote speakers, Lisa Lawrence, president of the National Council of Women, writer/journalist Jill Worrall and Tai Hartley-Parsons of Kāinga Ora.
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