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With garbage piled nearby, Janice Crowley sits on the front porch of the trailer she rents in Silver Leaf Trailer Park. Residents of the long-time Grenada mobile home park must move by the end of the month.
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By GALEN HOLLEY
Staff Writer
Silver Leaf Trailer Park isn’t much to look at. The trailers are dilapidated and several are abandoned. The half-mile road that winds through the park is little more than a hog trail, with deep, muddy holes and long, mushy patches of perpetually wet soil.
Nonetheless, Silver Leaf is home to as many as 40 residents. They’re poor people, folks who can’t afford much else.
When Silver Leaf Trailer Park finally closes, Janice Crowley won’t have anywhere to go.
“It’s a hell of thing,” says Crowley, as she sits on the porch of her trailer on a sunny afternoon. “You pay your rent for years, and you get hit with some stuff like this.”
Crowley wears a sleeveless blouse and house shoes in the unseasonable warmth. She tries to muster a smile, though her face, old before its time, is drawn and dark with worry. In the muddy road in front of her, stray dogs track back and forth amid piles of garbage.
Crowley has to be out by Feb. 28, according to a letter some residents received shortly after New Year’s. She didn’t get a letter, Crowley says, only a verbal warning, which she ignored, to be out by Feb. 3.
Crowley stomps the grey floorboards of her trailer’s deck in frustration.
“These ain’t rich people,” she says. “It ain’t like they can just pick up and move.”
Crowley says residents were given no recourse and no alternatives. They simply had to move out.
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