Paint job draws attention

Jim Deitz poses Monday with a grin and a can of paint in front of his house in north Grand Forks. The retired house painter on Tuesday was putting the final polka dots on his home-turned-apartments, where passers-by have been gathering to watch him work and to request colors from his palette of a dozen cans of brightly colored paint. See story on page A6. Eric Hylden Forum Communications Co.