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Mold changes dream
house into nightmare
The kitchen
calendar reads January 2003. The clock on the stove perpetually flashes
12:00. The day Mary McKinstray fled her $250,000 Carmel home and her
possessions is frozen in time. "My doctor said, 'If you value your life,
never go in that house again,' " said McKinstray, a former Merck drug
saleswoman who has moved into a spare bedroom in her parents' house.
 By
Chris O'Malley,
chris.omalley@indystar.com,
www.indystar.com,
December 14, 2003
Silver Lakes
resident files lawsuit
Some residents of the Silver Lakes mobile home community in
Clarksville say they've had enough of flooded yards,
faulty sewage connections and dangerous electrical wiring.
One of them
has filed suit in Clark Superior Court against the California owners of
the property. The mobile home park, which has 332 lots off U.S. 31, has
been cited repeatedly for numerous violations by the Indiana State
Department of Health over at least the past 15 months. The department
threatened in June to call an enforcement hearing after an inspector
listed 35 violations at Silver Lakes.
By Harold J. Adams,
hjadams@courier-journal.com,
The Courier-Journal,
December 12,
2003
Healthy in Houston: Is household mold affecting your health?
Soon after identical twins Diana and Dawn Meier moved into the same
apartment building, they developed breathing problems. "She had been
complaining of a lot of sinus problems when she had moved to the
apartment. She had been there about a year before I did. And so I started
getting -- like, my nose was running," said Diana. Their symptoms got
worse, and the antibiotics doctors prescribed didn't help. Then the
sisters found out they were sensitive to household mold.
By Vince Sherry,
www.news24houston.com,
December 12, 2003 |
