Displaced residents of Kelowna’s Hadgraft Wilson Place face another moving day

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The 84 residents of Hadgraft Wilson Place were forced out April 1, when cracks in the building’s foundation prompted an evacuation.

The strain residents of Hadgraft Wilson Place have been under since being ousted from their homes was palpable Monday, as many made their way to their latest stop.

“I’m doing all the moving along with my friends, thank God. But it’s been really stressful,” Hutton said, adding that she’s one of the lucky ones to have a network of support. It’s harder on Harry. While a number of people said they were grateful that Okanagan College has offered up its new residence building, it’s only until Aug. 15, and from that point forward nobody knows what’s going to happen.

“I’m so grateful for the college to give us a space to be a community again and kind of be one again because that was the whole point of the Hadgraft Wilson Place,” she said.Nijjar arrests: Indian foreign minister says Canada welcomes ‘criminals’ “I always have a fear of the unknown. One of my big triggers in life is not knowing, so this whole experience has been really stressful but you know, we’ve been lucky so far with certain things so I’m hoping that luck keeps going,” she said.

“He started wandering a lot. The RCMP found him one night standing right outside Hadgraft Wilson Place with his groceries at midnight and had to bring him back to the hotel,” his sister Sue Bauman said.

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