News ™Review Wednesday, February 14,1990 — Ad

Rest home no comfort for displaced seniors

by George Lee
The Review

A new rest home will add 77
units to the rental market for
seniors in Sidney.

But three people next door
won't be moving in. Rents ranging
from $1,100 to $1,800 a month are
too high for their fixed incomes.

And they have to be out of their
apartments by April 30 to make
way for a parking lot — a parking
lot for the rest home so far beyond
their means.

Right now, Edith Sumpton, 92,
and roommate Charles MacFar-
lane, 88, pay $330 a month for a
tiny room at 2294 Henry Ave.

Some of their neighbors have
moved to another old block, next
door on Henry and also owned by
developer Tidman Construction
Ltd.

But MacFarlane and Sumpton
have nowhere to go. “‘They can
send me back to Britain,” Sump-
ton says.

Sumpton doesn’t want to move
to Victoria and switch doctors.
And she’s been unable to find a

Ferry schedule shifted

The Gulf Island ferry schedule
from Swartz Bay will be changed
Feb. 19 to accommodate mainte-
nance and a special cargo sailing.

The sailing from Swartz Bay to
Pender Island will leave at 8:45
a.m. The sailing for Mayne and
Galiano islands will leave Swartz
Bay at 10:25 a.m.

Passengers and vehicles sailing

from Saturna Island at 11 a.m. will
be transferred to another ferry at
Village Bay. That ferry will leave
at 12:20 p.m., arriving at Swartz
Bay at 1:30 p.m.

The Mayne Queen’s regular
5:30 a.m. sailing from Swartz Bay
to the islands will carry propane to
Pender Island but will not carry
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place to live anywhere in the area.

Bernice Niblett, like Sumpton
and McFarlane, received a tenancy
termination notice.

The spry 74-year-old also
couldn’t find a place at the neigh-
boring older apartment block.

That her home will make way.
for a parking lot “teally gets my
dander up,” she says.

But developer Ron Tidman says
his new Beechwood Village pro-
ject on Mills Road and Resthaven
Drive is meeting a need in the
community.

He says town zoning forces him
to replace one of his older Henry
Avenue blocks with a parking lot.
See related story.

Tidman said he’d replace both
old apartment buildings on Henry
with affordable rental units “in a
minute” if zoning requirements
were favorable.

Developers need incentives
from government, because the
economics work against constmuc-
tion of affordable rental housing.

Even at the rents set at Bee-
chwood’s congregate care section,
it’s a “very long-term invest-
ment,” Tidman said.

A complementary condomin-
lum project’s 30 units are already
sold. It’s designed for people 55
and older.

The rental section — worth $8

million, with studio, one-bedroom
and two-bedroom suites — should
be ready in July, he said.

Sales representative Shelley
Mann said interest so far is Strong
for the units.

Tidman says his Beechwood
Village ties in perfectly with the
neighborhood. Silver Threads and
Resthaven Lodge are nearby, and
the public library is across the
street.

The rental project will offer
three nutritious meals a day at a
common dining area, a games
Toom, a sun deck and 4a hair
dressing salon. Each room has a
kitchenette for entertaining guests.

And there’s a private dining
room for use when groups want to
dine with friends and family at the
home.

To it’s south, there will be a
parking lot, where a less-than-
luxurious 18-unit building now
Stands.

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Tidman says he’s done what he
can to help the residents of the
apartment building that will soon
be razed.

“We've moved most of the peo-
ple,” he said. Five moved over to
the 32-unit building next door.
And if any other units come avail-
able there, those without a place to
go will have first dibs.

Nothing is planned for now at
the remaining old building. But
Tidman notes that it’s about 30

years old and destined for the

wrecking ball someday too.

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