Community opens its hearts, and wallets, to families of crane-collapse victims
Kelowna s generosity and compassion has overflowed in the wake of the crane collapse that killed five men Monday at a downtown highrise construction site.
The GoFundMe campaigns for the families of brothers Eric and Patrick Stemmer, Jared Zook, Cailen Vilness and Brad Zawislak have all exceeded their goals within three days of being set up.
The Stemmer brothers, Zook and Vilness were all construction workers at the almost-complete 25-storey Brooklyn condominium highrise at the corner of Bernard Avenue and St. Paul Street.
They perished as the top part of the towering crane broke off while being dismantled and came crashing to the ground, the building s podium and a low-rise office building next door.