Archive for July, 2006

>A 26-year-old Cedar City man was fatally shot during a struggle in a Cedar City Wal-Mart parking lot.
Police say the intruder was shot while he allegedly tried to force his way into a motorhome parked in the lot.
A Florida family inside the motorhome told police they were on vacation in the area.
Police found the man slumped on the stairs of the motorhome and pronounced him dead.
Police are investigating the shooting. No arrests have been made.

>After 45 years of lobbying the provincial government to crack down on illegal camping in the province, the camping industry is now receiving help from a company that has long benefited from the practice — Wal-Mart.

The retailer has begun posting signs in parking lots it owns, informing RV owners about a provincial law that prohibits the practice and asking them not to park overnight, says Leanne Hachey of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

While the company’s American counterpart views RV owners as a lucrative market and actively pursues their business by promoting overnight parking in their lots, Wal-Mart Canada is more concerned about being a good a corporate citizen than about losing revenue.

With more than 73,000 RVs visiting Nova Scotia last year alone, RV owners contribute significantly to the province’s tourism sector.

The president of the Campground Owners Association of Nova Scotia says she considers Wal-Mart’s decision a “wonderful first step” in helping to address the long-standing issue. Full Story…

>Angie Taylor kept calling her RV a motor home or trailer.

However, when your recreation vehicle is a 31-foot Allegra with leather seats, a master bedroom suite and washer and dryer, calling it a ”trailer,” she quickly learned, is tacky.

”There’s a whole world out there that has its own lingo,” says Taylor, who with her husband, David, are in familiar baby-boomer territory: empty nesters with time on their hands, money in their pockets and dreams to fulfill.

Goodlettsville resident Mark Paul, who calls himself a ”boomer kid,” has expendable income and doesn’t mind using it to enjoy life wandering the country with his wife, Brenda.

”I told my wife when we first got this thing. I said, ‘I’m going to be 60 soon. I don’t know any real old guys who are 60, and I don’t know any young guys who are 70.’ ”

He says the decision to go ahead and spend the money now is easy once ”you realize maybe you’ve got six, eight, 10 years of good life before you’re in some rest home drooling.”

He’s only half joking. Full Story…

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