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| Displaced Residents of Prairie Winds |
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| June 26, 2012 |
| By Glenda Embry, Public Information Officer |
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Plans are underway to build a new subdivision just east of New Town to house the displaced |
| Prairie Winds residents. About 45 mostly tribal member residents of the privately owned Prairie |
| Winds Trailer Court received eviction notices on December 26, 2011 informing them they would |
| need to move out of the trailer court by May 1, 2012. Facing displacement with nowhere to go, the |
| residents turned to the Tribal Business Council. Since the trailer court is located in the North |
| Segment, the Council voted to authorize North Segment Council Representative Scott Eagle to find a |
| suitable location for the residents. Last week, Eagle, took reporters on a tour of the area selected by |
| the Tribal Council. Also with him were several residents of Prairie Winds and architect Herb Fricke of |
| Cooper Zietz Engineers who designed the site. The location just east of New Town is just behind the |
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| old North Segment Community Building, and south of Highway 23 between the railroad tracks and |
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| the highway. |
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| To allow the Tribal Business Council time to find another location, the Council met with owners of |
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| the trailer court and the eviction notice was changed to August 31, 2012. The short timeline has |
| crews hustling to get infrastructures in place before the deadline so residents can move in. They |
| are leveling the site, setting up power lines, roadways and bringing in water storage tanks until |
| Rural Water becomes available. FEMA trailers will be available for some of the residents who |
| were renting or whose homes were too old to move. Eagle Rock Timber Inc., an Indian owned |
| company with headquarters in Idaho Falls Idaho is the general contractor. |
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