Jim Deitz believes he’s creating a Grand Forks landmark, but the downtown apartment house he’s painting one polka dot at a time is making a city planner cringe. 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. "Pizza delivery drivers won’t have any trouble finding this place," Deitz said of the century old-two story home that houses six apartments. "You can’t miss it." The house is next to a church,...
