Gazette The Lake Cowichan
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015
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VI Library lands new mascot: Tales the Whale promotes reading PAGE 3
Downtown market: Weekly event aims to bring traffic to Lake Cowichan’s core PAGE 2
Town centre pole project: First Nations gift to town starts fundraising PAGE 3
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Sam Beldessi in the bathing facility at Evergreen Place Senior Housing. While once a cornerstone for seniors, the facility is now being used as storage after losing the grant which covered operational costs.
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the first floor is now being used as storage, a home for the building’s old microwaves, food processors and bags of shredded paper. The lift chair and bathtub are still there, but with no outside funding, the taps have run dry. “Seeing it like this really upsets me,” says Beldessi. “People in Lake Cowichan have to go to Duncan for bathing now, they have to sit at a bus stop and wait for hours just to take a bath.” Though Beldessi wants nothing e
Drew McLachlan
LAKE COWICHAN GAZETTE
At 90-years-old, Sam Beldessi says there are still a few things he wants to do before he moves on. One of those things is to take a bath. While it was once a fixture for many seniors living in Lake Cowichan, the bathing facility at Evergreen Place Senior Housing has been mostly empty for the past three years. The small room on
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