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He left his place in Farmington to go get a permit at the county courthouse in Colfax.
“What kind of farm equipment shed do you want to build?” they asked.
It wasn’t a farm equipment shed he wanted to build.
“What kind of farm building is it?”
He explained it wasn’t a farm building.
“What kind of farming do you do?”
He wasn’t a farmer, he said.
“So what do you do?”
He ran an audio component business, he said.
“She was looking at me like a cow looking at a new gate,” said Mark Hellinger, the man who was hoping for a building permit that day.
He did get it and in 2003 constructed a 7,000 square...
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