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When the family run store turned 60 last week, it held a more modest 25-per-cent-off sale online.
“We talked about (60 per cent off),” co-owner David McKie said. But he and his wife, Jessica Bowie, worried people might think COVID-19 was forcing them out of business.
The store shut temporarily because of the pandemic, but since October has reopened its doors. Closing permanently was never a consideration, McKie said.
McKie’s dad Roger was 19 when he opened the store in 1961 with $10,000 worth of stock loaned to him by a Toronto haberdashery he had worked at to gain experience. Today, adjusted for inflation, that would be almost $90,000 of fabric.
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Managers at the Beechwood Continuing Care campus in Getzville haven t lived up to their promises to prepare a comfortable living environment for the 25 seniors who moved over last month from the Blocher Homes apartments in Williamsville, according to relatives of one resident.
For those residents, most in their 80s and 90s but including at least one centenarian, the move marked the end of a distressing saga that began nearly 18 months ago.
That s when officials from Beechwood and People Inc. announced plans for what became a $31.5 million project to convert the Blocher Homes site on Evans Street to mixed-income housing.
The residents bitterly opposed the move and organized at least one widely covered protest, but when the village Planning Board approved the project in September they were left with little choice but to go.