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living the condo lifestyle in collingwood / blue mountain ontario

May 5th, 2010

For those who are unfamiliar to what living in a condo is all about, a condominium can be an apartment or townhouse located in defined space called a condominium corporation, where each owner of a condominium shares communal recreational facilities such as a gym, swimming pool, tennis court, clubhouse etc.

If you are in the mood to live a carefree life style, then Collingwood or Blue Mountain is the place to live, work and play.

Ownership of a Collingwood / Blue Mountain condo owners will be required to pay a monthly condominium fee. The purpose of this fee is to offset the costs of items like common element insurance, reserve fund allocations, kitchen refuse pick up, snow removal, lawn and garden maintenance and repairs for the various facilities you enjoy as a resident of the condominium complex. Any interior maintenance and repair work will be required within the space of your four walls, is your responsibility and not that of the general association of people who live the in condominium building.

Purchasing Collingwood / Blue Mountain condominium real estate is an advantage for a variety of reasons. If you live in a condo, you’ll only be responsible for a few exterior maintenance duties or repairs. You also have the chance to enjoy a lot of facilities that the Collingwood / Blue Mountain condominium development may offer such as a pool, tennis court or any other such facilities that you can use as the owner of a Collingwood / Blue Mountain condo. Other forms of housing which may provide these sorts of amenities may prove more expensive than affordable well-priced Collingwood / Blue Mountain condominium housing.

Those who wish to enjoy living in the Collingwood / Blue Mountain areas, then Collingwood / Blue Mountain condos can provide you with housing that meets your needs and financial requirements. For those who may not want the Collingwood / Blue Mountain condominium lifestyle, we also have chalets for sale or rent in the Collingwood / Blue Mountain areas.

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Theodore Freiman is a freelance Writer.

Article Source: Living the Condo Lifestyle in Collingwood / Blue Mountain Ontario

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The Lindsay Ranch

April 23rd, 2010

He built the large calving barn, now in Rocky Flats as mentioned above, about 1947, as well as the North Ranch House. This house was actually attached to a small shed where Ted Kasberry lived to attend the cattle and watch over the calving. By this time Lindsay had gathered his herd of 180 Hereford cattle, 50 registered. In the late 1950s he and neighboring rancher, Ernest Ramstetter, went together and imported sheep from New Zealand, believed to be the famous Corredalee line, in order to give new blood strains and strengthen the breed in this country.

It was quite the scene when the sheep were unloaded at the dock in San Francisco and it made nation- headlines. But as the saying goes, “following like sheep,” one person experienced in sheep handling attached a bell to one and led it down the chute and, of course, all the rest followed.

Meanwhile, in 1949 Lindsay had hired John and Evelyn Lutz to manage his spread, a job they would perform for 38 years. Evelyn Lutz did not particularly want to live in the north ranch house due to its isolation, no school bus access and no indoor plumbing. So the Lutzes lived at the Leyden ranch.

The Lindsays never lived on either ranch. Though George liked to visit, especially when Evelyn served him one of her famous sauerkraut/pork roast suppers, Susan did not like anything connected with country living — not the “fresh country” smell or flies; not even sauerkraut. So they remained in Denver where they were in the society limelight starting with their July 3, 1925, wedding reported as one of “most-brilliant-functions-of-the year.”

Susan McLain, born on July 14, 1889, in Pittsburgh, Pa., had come to Colorado for her health in the good air — which was actually healthy then — and had graduated from the University of Denver before her marriage to Lindsay.

Evelyn Lutz said Susan was a kind and generous person who believed in putting her wealth to good use. Never having children of her own, she paid for college education for more than 25 students, including the Lutz daughters, Susan and Carol. Her endowments to DU included one for the lecture hall/auditorium which bears a brass plaque with the name and a relief of George.

One of the many interesting travel stories centered around George was one told by a nephew, Bruce Hepp of Lakewood. Among 12 men chosen to accompany Alex Drier, first syndicated news columnist, TV commentator and journalist, on the first post World War II visit to Russia, he was there in 1948, friendship extended, only ironically, to have much of his land taken three years later for a plant to build nuclear missile warheads during the Cold War with that country.

Among the people most familiar with the Lindsays, their ranch and its history were the Lutzes and the Al Brookes family.

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