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Broken elevator strands elderly tenants Ambleside renters shut in with no fix in sight
JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Elderly tenants of a rental apartment building in West Vancouver say they’re suffering because the eight-floor building’s elevator has been broken for six weeks – with no fix expected anytime soon.
One 85-year-old tenant on the fifth floor said he hasn’t left his suite since the elevator was damaged in an electrical fire Sept. 21 and feels like a prisoner in his own home. “I haven’t left for a month,” said Sydney Rose, who has lived in the Sea and Stream building at 1765 Duchess Ave. for the past 18 years. Rose said he’s made do with help from his stepdaughter and his neighbours, who bring groceries and deliver his daily newspaper, but is starting to go stir crazy trapped in his apartment. “I’m going around the twist. I’m getting cabin fever,” he said. Rose said before the elevator broke he made a point of going for daily walks in the neighbourhood. “I’m still mobile when I’ve got access, but I can’t handle the stairs,” due to a back injury, he said. Rose’s neighbour Juanita Allan, 88, said the length of time it’s taking for repairs is frustrating. Allan said she makes fewer trips in and out of the building now. “I have to think about ‘Can I walk up those five flights of stairs?’ I have stayed in a few days.” Allan said she has arthritis in her knees and has had to
Catherine McKinnon, one of the tenants in the building at 1765 Duchess Ave., takes a rest in a chair placed on a stairwell landing since the building’s elevator stopped working six weeks ago. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD rely on the building’s caretaker to help bring up groceries to her apartment. “I can get up comfortably to the third floor,” she said. “But the last two…” “I’d like to know what other buildings wait this long (for repairs),” Allan said. Both the District of West Vancouver and the fire department said the issue is not one
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Accidentally donated $4K returned to owner BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Salvation lies within. Or sometimes, it’s deep down at the bottom of a green bag.
A North Vancouver Salvation Army donation sorter is being hailed a hero after finding a large sum of
cash accidentally tucked into a donated bag. Early in October, a woman who was preparing to move from North Vancouver stopped in to the Capilano branch on Fell Avenue to donate some clothes and accessories she no longer needed. She came back the next
day in tears, saying somewhere within her donations was $4,000 in savings. “She told us that she accidentally donated the money and she needs the money,” said Louie Lumio, who had only been working at the thrift shop for the last three months. Staff explained to her that
it might have already been trucked back to the warehouse in Langley, in which case it was anyone’s guess where it would turn up. “She left the store crying and sad. She thought that she was never going to find her money again,” he said.
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