Facade rehabilitation grant helps woman turn her dream into reality
Patricia Ford and her 16-year-old son, Keanu, posed for a photo outside the house they are rehabilitating at 104 Temple Ave. This home is the fourth rehab project Patricia has done in Excelsior Springs. (Photo by Brian Rice)
By ERIC COPELAND
Managing Editor
 She started with a Victorian home with blue “fish scales” on Francis Street, then moved on to a shell of a home on Bell Street. Then she tackled another house on Francis, distinctive because of its copper roof.
But as Patricia Ford was rehabbing these older, promising homes for resale, she always felt drawn to another house—at 104 Temple Ave.
“Whenever I drove by, I’d always slow down,” she said. “There was something about it. And now I can’t believe we’re here.”
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Bridge quietly re-opens
By ERIC COPELAND
Managing Editor
Parents and students learned this week that the bridge on Tiger Drive is basically finished, but it could be sometime today before the project reaches full completion.
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