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Residents of a mobile home park in Glenwood Springs are trying to purchase their property with the help of social-justice nonprofit Manaus. But lending conditions are putting pressure on everyone to raise money and speed up the transfer of ownership.

Thirty-nine local artists associated with the Fort Myers Mural Society have painted 57 murals of people and scenes from Fort Myers' past - when the neophyte settlement was a port dominated by seven long piers that jutted into the Caloosahatchee River. The artists met recently to talk about the importance of the project and what they hope the public derives from their paintings.

Residents of a mobile home park in Glenwood Springs are trying to purchase their property with the help of social-justice nonprofit Manaus. But lending conditions are putting pressure on everyone to raise money and speed up the transfer of ownership.

Residents of a mobile home park in Glenwood Springs are trying to purchase their property with the help of social-justice nonprofit Manaus. But lending conditions are putting pressure on everyone to raise money and speed up the transfer of ownership.