CALGARY- A big donation from a local country artist is helping a deserving local family with their new beginning.
Singer Jason Hastie and his wife Gina decided to put their Killarney bungalow on Kijiji, offering it up for free to anyone who wanted to cart it away so they can build a new home on the property.
“It’s a perfectly good house,” says Jason Hastie. “Rather than see it end up in a landfill, if another family can make use of it, I think that’s a wonderful thing.”
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Over two-thousand people applied, and the Hasties decided to choose Dave and Verna Roberts, whose High River home was destroyed in the June flood. Just six months earlier, the couple’s 31-year-old son Kyle died in a car crash.
“We weren’t done our grieving process at all when we lost our house,” Dave Roberts says. “It just added to the misery of the year.”
“Their story really touched us. They’ve had a lot of tragedy,” Gina Hastie says, of why they chose the Roberts’.
The 62-year-old home was pulled off its foundations on Wednesday, and will now head to High River. The Roberts hope to be all moved in by summer.
-With files from Gil Tucker
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