The Land Conservancy of McHenry County is hoping for volunteers to help welcome spring by attending a restoration work day.

No experience is required, just dress to work outside. Tools and refreshments will be provided. Upcoming events include:

March 26, 10am-1pm at Wonder Lake Sedge Meadow. This 28-acre natural area features one of the best views in McHenry County, looking through oak woods, past the wetland and across the west bay of Wonder Lake. Take Greenwood Road north from Route 120 through the Village of Greenwood to West Wonder Lake Road. Turn right and follow the road about 1 1/4 miles to the Wonder Lake Village Hall. The work site is east of the Village building.

March 28, 10am-1pm, Oak Rescue at Van Marens woods. This 40-acre property was protected by the landowner with a conservation easement donated to TLC in 2013. Oaks as old as 350 years have been found on the property. Take Route 14 west from Woodstock to Lembcke Road. Turn left (west), proceed 1 1/4 miles and park in the field on the north side of the road. Approximate address is 20202 Lembcke.

March 29, 9am-noon at Gateway Park in Harvard. Volunteers have finished much of the restoration in the oak woods on this 17 1/2 acre natural area located at the intersection of Route 23 and Heritage Lane on the south side of Harvard. Weather permitting, brush piles will be burned and the site will be prepared for a possible ecological burn in April.

March 30, 10am-1pm at Ryders Woods in Woodstock. This 23 acre gem in the heart of the city includes oak woods, a pond and a small prairie. Volunteers will continue clearing brush to open the site up for spring wildflowers. From the intersection of 14 and 47, head north on 47, left on Lake Ave, and left on Kimball Ave. The park will be on your right. Nearest Address: 750 E Kimball Ave, Woodstock.

Contact Melissa Hormann for more information at 815-337-9502 or email mhormann@conservemc.org

TLC is a local nonprofit organization that works with individuals and communities to preserve and restore natural, scenic and agricultural land http://www.conservemc.org

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KUCHING: The construction of new homes for the 20 families from Kampung Mambong affected by the clinker plant about 20 years ago is expected to take off in a few months time.

Public Health Assistant Minister Datuk Dr Jerip Susil said Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) would build the houses under the Rumah Mesra Rakyat (RMR) scheme.

However, given that the infrastructural costs, including piling, are not covered within the price of the RMR, the project could not take place until the basic infrastructures are in place.

Dr Jerip, who is Bengoh assemblyman and co-ordinator of the resettlement project, admitted that the resettlement of the 20 families from Kampung Mambong, at Mile 16 off Jalan Puncak Borneo, was long overdue.

He said the land clearing and levelling was done in 2009, but the resettlement committee wanted piling work to be done on the land that was formerly a swamp.

To implement the infrastructural work that includes piling we need funds. I have written to the State Development Office for some funds to enable us to implement the long overdue project.

Im expecting the funds to be given out either end of this month or in April. As soon as we get it, we will start to implement the infrastructural work.

Hopefully, construction will be in progress by end of this year, he said.

Asked if the temporary occupational licence (TOL) for every lot is ready, Dr Jerip said there shouldnt be any problem issuing it.

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A judgment against the Boca Raton-based Fidelity Land Trust Co. clears the titles of hundreds of homes statewide that were signed over to the firm in what the Florida attorney general says was a foreclosure-rescue scheme.

The company had acquired about 100 homes in Palm Beach County before being shut down by the state in September 2012. It once boasted having more than 250 properties statewide.

While an attorney generals civil case against multiple connected defendants continues in Broward County, the December judgment against Fidelity rescinds all deeds signed to the firm and declares them null and void. The judgment was filed in Palm Beach County official records last month.

Fidelity told struggling homeowners it could cancel their mortgages through a complicated legal maneuver that involved suing their lender after the homeowner signed their deed over to the firm. Fidelity also offered borrowers new mortgages through an affiliated company.

Fidelity made false and deceptive or unfair promises and representations to consumers in order to induce consumers to transfer title to their homes to Fidelity for no consideration and to pay Fidelity thousands of dollars in advance fees for services that could not be delivered, the judgment says.

The Palm Beach Post first reported about Fidelity Land Trust in June 2012, noting in subsequent stories that it had been given title to properties that ranged from a million-dollar Boca Raton mansion on the Intracoastal Waterway to a $60,000 condominium west of Floridas Turnpike.

After the attorney general froze its operations and assets, the firm began signing deeds back to its former clients, but real estate lawyers said it was important to get a court order clearing the titles.

Having them sign a deed back wasnt sufficient because the attorney generals order said everything was frozen, said Alan Polin, a Boca Raton attorney who filed a lawsuit against Fidelity in April 2013 on behalf of former Fidelity clients. Someone could come back and make the point that the deed was invalid because they legally couldnt be operating.

In May 2013, Polin got a judges order to release the couples home from the asset freeze and void the quit claim deed signed over to Fidelity.

The damage done by these scams is not only to the consumers who are taken by them, but to the justice system overall because it muddies the water for other consumers and judges as to what constitutes a legitimate defense to foreclosure, said Royal Palm Beach-based foreclosure defense attorney Tom Ice.

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A representative for villagers living in Ratanakkiris OChum district who say that buyers from a local company failed to uphold a 2007 land deal has been charged and temporarily detained by local authorities for allegedly destroying private property.

Haing Noeur, 50, was detained on Saturday after plantation owner Ly Sok Ngim filed a lawsuit against him, alleging that Noeur burned timber destined to build huts on his land, said Chhay Thy, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc.

That land dispute involves 66 families and Ly Sok Ngim, but authorities did not intervene, and the workers keep clearing the forest on the disputed land. There is no other option but burning down the material to stop the clearing, Thy said.

In March, an Adhoc investigation revealed that Seng Visith and his wife, Sek Sopheak Soeur Monea, who together owned a majority share of the now bankrupt VKM Company, promised to give villagers $20,000 and to build bridges, roads, schools and a village hall.

The investigation also revealed that former owners of the 400 hectares in dispute were in debt to Sok Ngim. A court ruling in February transferred five properties including the 400 disputed hectares to Sok Ngim.

Workers employed by Sok Ngim have been clearing the community forest unabated since early March, according to Chhay, claiming that the area had been awarded to Sok Ngim by Judge Luch Lao.

Both sides in this case, the community villagers and Ly Sok Ngim, have filed lawsuits against each other over the illegal land grabbing but the court only takes action against the simple citizen, Chhay continued, adding that efforts to provide legal aid to Noeur were under way.

District police chief Hak Lao confirmed yesterday that authorities arrested Noeur on Friday for allegedly burning 10 cubic metres of wood.

He poured gasoline [on the wood] and burned it down and dismissed the workers. We arrested him based on the law, Lao said.

Neither Judge Luch Lao nor Sok Ngim could not be reached for comment yesterday.

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A bill authored by U.S. Sens. Al Franken, D-Minn., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Rep. Rick Nolan, D-Minn., to give the go-ahead on a land exchange between the Fond du Lac Band and Carlton County is set to become law after clearing both the Senate and the House.

The legislative fix, passed in the Senate late on Thursday and expected to be signed into law in the near future, will let the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Carlton County perform a key land swap. The exchange, according to the Democratic lawmakers, is beneficial to both the band and the county, letting them manage their lands more effectively.

This land transfer is important to both the Fond du Lac Band and to Carlton County the band supports this, the county supports it, and the Department of Interior supports it, said Sen. Franken.

This long-awaited agreement is the right thing to do for both the Fond du Lac Band and Carlton County, Klobuchar said in a news release.

This long-awaited exchange helps rectify the broken 1854 treaty between the Fond du Lac Band and the federal government by returning original land to the Band to construct much needed housing, Nolan said in a news release. In return, Carlton County will receive non-reservation land now owned by the Band, opening up valuable new timber and forestry resources.

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