Fire destroys family's belongings

A family of four lost most of its belongings after a second-story apartment at the Budget Inn Motel caught on fire Sunday afternoon.

"We didn't lose everything, but we lost a lot of stuff," said Red Shappart, a roofer whose family was renting the two-bedroom furnished apartment at the motel, on the east side of Ninth Avenue between First and Second streets.

"I don't have a whole lot of things, but what we do have is ours, you know what I mean?" said Shappart's wife, Jody Stuker, a housekeeper at the Best Western Great Northern Inn.

Their belongings were not insured, she said.

The couple has mo...