down GoFundMe help

wait until the insurance company gives me the go ahead on getting a plumber in here to refit everything.”

One ray of good news that Magee discovered is he is fully insured.

“I did find out in fact that the boiler was cov- ered because I bought insurance specifically for the boiler,” he said. “I don't know why (they) would insure an 85-yearold piece of equipment, but they did. I guess they think these things last indefinitely, but it was seven or eight years older than the hotel when it was constructed. So they must have brought this thing in from somewhere else and dropped it in the ground and then built a hotel around it.”

Meanwhile, community members rallied together and started a gofundme page to raise money for Magee to repair his hotel and reopen. Magee said thank you but turned down the offer.

“I had contacted the people who were running the GoFundMe page, and I said, I appre- ciate the effort, but I'm going to decline on accepting any money because I'm insured,” he said.

“So they've removed the GoFundMe page but of course I'm very grateful to Trudy, the councillor here in Chipman. She stepped up and she reached out to me and she was very helpful and supportive.”

In terms of how people can help, Magee could think of only one thing.

“The only thing that these people can help me out with is when I reopen, to come and support the business,” he said. “I've been out here for nearly eight years. I was lucky in my circumstances (that) I ended up in Chipman and bought this hotel.”

Currently, Magee said he hopes to reopen in approximately one month but is still waiting on a repair or replacement for his boiler.