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After more than a year, family may soon check out of motel

Worker’s comp claim may help Colombian group of five find a permanent home

From left, Adolfo Cuartas, his granddaughter Esmeralda and his wife Olga sit on the bed inside their hotel room at Budgetel Inn & Suites where they have lived for the past year in Gainesville, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. - photo by David Barnes

12032017 MOTEL 0004.jpg — From left, Adolfo Cuartas, his granddaughter Esmeralda and his wife Olga sit on the bed inside their hotel room at Budgetel Inn & Suites where they have lived for the past year in Gainesville, on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. - photo by David Barnes

Room 135 at the Budgetel Inn & Suites on Jesse Jewell Parkway has been the permanent address now the past two Thanksgiving Day holidays for a Colombian family of five.