The Oglala Sioux Tribe expects to break ground on a nursing home near the troubled town of Whiteclay, Nebraska, where four liquor stores sell 4.1 million cans of beer a year.

The facility will be located on tribal land about a half-mile from the town, The Lincoln Journal Star reported. Construction is expected to start later this spring or early summer, with work finished by the fall of 2011.

Some see the nursing home as a sign that change is coming to Whiteclay. Two religious groups are using federal and state funds to help clean up the area and start some businesses.

“God told me that he was going to transform Whiteclay when we came here six years ago,” Bruce BonFleur of the ABOUT Group told The Omaha World-Herald. “Now all of this is coming together.”

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3 rays of hope brighten outlook for Whiteclay (The Omaha World-Herald 3/29)
Tribe plans nursing home near Whiteclay (The Lincoln Journal Star 3/29)

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