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KnoxNews reports:

OAK RIDGE - A controversial halfway house for recovering drug addicts and alcoholics lost its bid to stay in business following an emotional hearing Tuesday.

So I didn’t realize that Oak Ridge has these sorts of half-way houses. Well, not anymore.

The Dismas house in Knoxville was the first sort of half-way house I’d heard of. It seemed like a great thing and was run by a nun. It had to close down due to finances.

Back to Oak Ridge, KnoxNews goes on to say:

Beams scoffed at Sisson’s assertion that Freedom House residents had helped improve the neighborhood by cleaning up streets and chasing off drug dealers.

“I’m not sure I understand how bringing a house full of drug addicts into a neighborhood makes it any better,” Beams said.

“Are we in the business to import criminals to our community?” asked resident Sid Booth.

“I want them all gone,” he said of the neighborhood’s halfway houses.

I can sympathize with neighborhood residents concerned about having recovering addicts next door, but where should they go? The “not in my back yard” mentality doesn’t really help the problem, does it?

The Missus and Lugnut just headed off to the Oak Ridge Preschool. Lug has an admissions interview at 2:30. We’ve been looking forward to this interview for a while since we’d really like for him to get into the preschool. They have a wonderful program over there and both the older kids both went through it with great results. There are a very limited number of spots open and it’s not all given that Lug will be accepted.

OK, so this was my project for today. We had to have the return of the little Brain guy, hiding behind my fence.

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