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Elmira, Ontario, Canada | observerxtra.com | Volume 28 | Issue 08
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Living Here | 24
Resident blames township as tree crashes on house Bill Atwood
issues with it. “Several branches have been taken off over the years that have blocked the roads and damaged the THAT AN ELMIRA COUPLE WAS jolted awake in the middle of roof. And in wintertime time when snow sits on it, you can touch the the night by a tree crashing down branches. We’ve been trimming it on their home was bad enough. as much as we can,” she explained. That they’d been warning the Sollazzo has gone to the towntownship of just the very concern ship with her concerns several compounded the frustration. times over the past 15 years, Dunke Street resident Jennifer but Woolwich decided against Sollazzo and her husband Joe removal. heard a loud noise about 1 a.m. on “The township has constantly February 17, awaking to find a large said ‘it’s a live tree, we’re going tree had damaged the house and to save it.’ They’ve had arborists her car. here who have agreed with that “We came out to our tree sitting scenario,” she said. on our vehicles and our house,” In response, the Sollazzos told she said, noting they’d expressed the township they would get a concerns about the tree, which is lawyer when the tree fell. They on township property. have already started the process, “[We] knew it was going to she noted. happen – that’s all that went Woolwich clerk Jeff Smith told through our head. We knew it was The Observer there were too few going to happen. We tried to get help to get this tree out of here, and details at this point to comment on the situation. we got nowhere.” “With the limited information While the Sollazzos were told by we have, the township has no their insurance company not to comment at this time,” Smith said touch the car until their adjusters via email. remove it, it sustained substantial Sollazzo said she is “upset with damage, including a broken back the township that [they] had to wait window. It is unclear how much till this happened to now fix the damage was done to their camper problem. that sits behind the car in the “We don’t want to make a big driveway. According to Sollazzo, they could show of this, but this is negligence on the township. This is what we easily tell the tree did not have a strong foundation, adding that this waited for and they knew it was happening.” is not the first time they have had Observer Staff
Jennifer and Joe Sollazzo’s Elmira home was struck by a tree uprooted during last Friday’s Bill Atwood ice storm. They had been trying to get it removed for 15 years.
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