Vera Johnson of White Center's Village Green Nursery has become something of a poster child for banks vs. the people in the last few weeks with attention from the media focused on her fight with Bank of America for a loan modification. Last week she delivered 10,000 signatures to the bank from an online petition hosted by Change.org.

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She learned at that meeting that while her home and business are not yet in foreclosure proceedings her ultimate fate is still undetermined. That petition by the way has now risen to more than 13,100 signatures and is still going.

"The day after that meeting they called me and said they were missing a very important part of information. They need it in writing when my spousal support ends. I get it for another year and they wanted to know if they could use it as part of my income so I told them, 'No, don't use it because it ends.' "

The spousal support helps care for Johnson's daughter Johanna and son Rowan.

In the meantime friends, neighbors and customers came to attend an Ice Cream Social at the Nursery on Aug. 13 featuring Full Tilt Ice Cream and music by Squirrel Butter. Full Tilt's Justin Cline was on hand to serve up raspberry cones and others were on hand to help sell the 50% off perennials the nursery was featuring.

Johnson should learn the banks decision this week but she's not standing still. "I'm going to start writing Fannie Mae because they are the servicer of my loan," Johnson said, "I'm just going to go right to the source." She hopes they will intervene or otherwise get involved. Her sense of trust in Bank of America is gone largely because her numerous attempts to get a loan modification for the past 18 months have been unsuccessful. When she asked the bank at her last meeting for something in writing on this upcoming decision they refused. "They told me to trust them. That was exactly what they said. 'You're just going to have to trust us.' "