CALGARY – A Calgary charity is bringing recycling to a new level.
Instead of demolishing them, 16 Bridgeland homes are being uprooted and loaded onto flatbed trucks to be shipped to Slave Lake.
Amy Nicholl became one of the first Slave Lake fire victims to move back into a permanent home this week. She can vouch first-hand how good it feels.
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“To have a place to call home again is the best feeling in the world.”
She’ll soon be joined by dozens more once the Calgary housing units arrive from Calgary.
The space left behind will make way for a new apartment complex dedicated to Calgarians in need.
“We’re helping the people who need it the most. The working poor, the homeless and seniors,” says Al Krenzel, Bishop O’Byrne Housing for Seniors Association.
14 new units will be dedicated to the homeless. The rest will be split between struggling families and low-income seniors funded by government grants and donations.
However, the charity organizing the project still needs to raise more funds but the existing units should be ready to go to Slave Lake by the New Year.
The new apartment complex is expected to be ready by the end of 2012.
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