Dubyk had written down the numbers of local authorities after his father died, but he couldn t bring himself to call, to say he planned to burn down the century-old grain elevator outside his family s little blue farm house that three generations of his family had shared near Rosetown. Dubyk wanted to conserve and restore the building, but high costs and roadblocks made that impossible. Saying goodbye by setting the tower ablaze was the last thing he wanted to do, but eventually he realized there was no other option and he made the call. “There was just nothing else we could really do,” he said.