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| Thursday, May 21, 2015
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Acts of Kindness now a community ‘tradition’ here By KURT LANGMANN Aldergrove Star
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Yuto Tanaka winds it up for the Aldergrove Dodgers’ 3-1 win over Nanaimo at the 18U AAA Showdown Tournament Monday at Aldergrove Athletic Park. Story, page 13.
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A community service project that started with the Aldergrove Seventh-day Adventist Church has grown into a community-wide tradition. Acts of Kindness has been renovating residential homes in the Aldergrove area for 12 years now. These have been major renovations, worth up to $100,000 each in labour and materials, which have made a significant difference in the lives of the families selected each year. Billed as “Extreme Home Repairs” they have been performed over the course of two weeks prior to the Victoria Day holiday Monday, on which date the homeowners were brought home for the “Big Reveal.” This year the homes selected were for the Laura Canessa family and the Mike and Misty Shufflebotham family. While they were smaller than the usual single residence chosen each year they were still major renovations for both families. And both families were overwhelmed with the quality of the work performed. For the Canessa family, single mother Laura and her sons Dillon, Nick and Lucas, the biggest issue was water leaks through the stucco and mortar exterior which had caused mold problems inside. This work was completed but it also included new paint work inside and out, electrical upgrades, and a new gas fireplace. For the Shufflebothams it had started out as a request from Mike’s mother to provide wheelchair access for Mike to his ensuite washroom, but it escalated into another fairly major upgrade. Mike, who is severely handicapped due to a workplace accident, now has wheelchair access to all of the home, including his front door, and a sunken living room was raised to the same level as the rest of the house. Again, there was significant paint work inside and out and remodeling of the bedrooms, electrical upgrades and a new gas fireplace. Aldergrove Seventh-day Adventist Church pastor Mike Dauncey’s wife, Marcy, said it all
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Laura Canessa collapsed in shock and happiness when she saw what the Acts of Kindness Extreme Home Repair had done to her family’s home at the “Big Reveal” Monday. Her sons Nick and Lucas (standing behind her) were just as pleased as their mother was. came down to the reward of seeing the joy it brings to people’s lives. “It’s very moving to see what the acts of kindness can do… it’s our way of paying it forward.” However, it has now grown far beyond the church and its membership, said one of the project co-leaders, Lorne Brownmiller. SEE: Page 3