A Wisconsin investor has agreed to purchase
a troubled mobile home park that owes $1.3
million to bankrupt mortgage lender Brasota
Mortgage Corp.
Michael Hickmann confirmed Wednesday that
he planned to purchase the Try-Mor Mobile
Home Park, 5624 14th St. W., for $575,000.
Fatal
mobile home fire deemed accidental
Investigators on Thursday determined that
a fatal mobile home fire in Orange County
the night before was accidental.
The mobile home in the 1200 block of Beaver
Street was fully engulfed in flames when
firefighters with Orange County Emergency
District One arrived about 3:45 a.m., Fire
Chief Scott Kerwood said.
The name of the 55-year-old man who died
in the fire was being withheld until relatives
were notified.
T-Mobile
choices aiming at adults
T-Mobile
is growing up.
In recent years, the biggest hit for the
nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier
has been the Sidekick, a cool device that
teens and young adults coveted because it
was a nifty way to send e-mails and text
messages.
The Sidekick is no longer the coolest kid
on the block.
That honor belongs to the Blackberry Pearl,
a T-Mobile exclusive since September that
also will go on sale next month at Cingular
Wireless. Not far behind the Pearl is the
Dash, made for T-Mobile by Taiwan's HTC.
The Dash is nearly as sleek and thin as
Motorola's Q.
The Pearl and the Dash are significantly
smaller than the bulky Sidekick 3, surprisingly
hefty considering today's preference for
thin mobile devices. The Pearl, in fact,
is a candy-bar style, not the typically
squat traditional BlackBerry.
For T-Mobile, the two smart phones aren't
an effort to attract the business user,
although they won't be turned away. Rather,
the goal is to attract the moms and dads
of those teens who love the Sidekick.
