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For Ricky King’s parents, an offer from Saint-Vincent Hospital to help them with their 25-year-old son could turn out to be as perfect a solution as possible.
Nadira and Roger King are touring the complex-care facility next week after receiving word through the Champlain Community Care Access Centre that Ricky has been approved for 13-day stretches of respite care. That means the parents — who have been running off their feet to care for Ricky at home since he suffered catastrophic injuries in car accident in 2006 — could finally be getting some serious rest and relaxation at various intervals.
But Ricky will still be spending considerable time at the family’s Limoges home under the care of his mom and dad, who are understandably apprehensive about being apart from him after all these years.
“It’s tough for a mother to let go,” says Nadira. “But I have to make a start with that, for Ricky, for myself and my family.”
Ricky is considered to be in a vegetative state as a result of brain injuries he suffered in September 2006 after his car went out of control on a steep hill and rolled several times.
Saint Vincent’s offer could not have come at a better time. In a Public Citizen story last month, his parents spoke about their struggles to care for Ricky even with 200 hours of help a month from personal support workers and nurses provided through the CCAC. Their search for respite care for a few days a month turned up nothing as there aren’t any facilities for men in Ricky’s age group.
There was an offer for respite care from the Ottawa Rotary Home after the Citizen article appeared, but Nadira believes Ricky’s condition might be too complex for that facility.
At this point, Nadira doesn’t know how many times Saint-Vincent will be able to accommodate Ricky, and there’s always the chance her son may not react well outside the familiar home atmosphere. But for now, they are looking at it as a possibility of getting some normalcy back into their lives and spending some time with their three other adult children and grandchildren.
‘DECEASED’ WOMAN GETS OLD AGE BENEFIT BACK
Ronald and Denise Leclair say they were dumbfounded to learn the federal government considered Denise deceased.
Denise Leclair, shocked to hear her old age benefits had been discontinued last month because government computers listed her as “deceased,” got her money Friday after The Public Citizen started looking into her story earlier in the week.
Though Denise and her husband, Ron, thought they had the matter cleared up after speaking to a Service Canada agent on April 28, those dumb computers still had her listed as deceased on Tuesday. After the paper started making inquiries with the Employment and Social Development department, it didn’t take long to get the issue resolved.
Daughter Lynne Nemeth says Service Canada called her parents at 8 a.m. Thursday, the day the Citizen article appeared, with apologies and assurances that Denise’s benefits would be in her bank account on Friday.
HYDRO INSURER SETTLES CLAIM OF TRUCK DAMAGE TO DRIVEWAY
Chris Johnson discovered some rather sizeable cracks in his driveway last February after an Ottawa Hydro truck drove over it in order to access some wires on his neighbour’s house.
Chris Johnson’s story about a large Hydro Ottawa truck damaging the front of his driveway in February and the unwillingness by the utility’s insurance to pony up for repairs obviously embarrassed powers at both organizations.
Last month, shortly after the Citizen detailed Johnson’s frustrations in getting his cracked driveway fixed, the municipal utility apologized to the Hamilton Avenue South resident and Hydro’s insurer, Travelers Canada, emailed him to say it was going to re-examine his claim.
For some reason, the second look convinced the insurer that Johnson deserved a settlement. Perhaps it was statements from people who saw the boom truck in his driveway on Feb. 5, as Hydro workers were doing a wire hookup at a neighbouring home under renovations. The Citizen story noted there were witnesses, and Travelers then asked Johnson for their information.
Johnson recently received a cheque from Travelers. As he shares a double driveway with the house being renovated and the crack extends by a foot on the asphalt that property, Johnson says he will await his new neighbours to discuss the repair with them.
LCBO SENDS $40 GIFT CARD TO MAN REFUSED SERVICE
Hugh McCord, 76, wonders if the hat his brother gave him led LCBO clerks to refuse to sell him a bottle of wine despite his protests that he had not been drinking.
The humiliation Hugh McCord felt after an LCBO outlet refused to serve him over suspicion that he had been drinking has been numbed by a couple of free bottles of some pretty good California wine.
LCBO’s head office promised to look into McCord’s complaint when it was contacted by this newspaper in March, about a week after he was refused service on St. Patrick’s Day at the St. Laurent Shopping Centre liquor store. McCord, who had gone into the store to buy some wine after having a coffee with a friend at the nearby Starbucks, says he has never been drunk in his life, nor had he been drinking before he was refused service.
When an LCBO customer relations manager called to apologize, McCord says he was told he was going to be sent a $10 gift card. After explaining his favourite wine was a $19.95 California red, the manager upped the offer to $20. Following a bit more negotiating and his mention that he was on a fixed income, McCord says she agreed to make it $40.
“It came to a fruitful end, ” says McCord, who says the two bottles he bought with the gift card are long gone. ” “Too bad. You could have come over and had a glass.”
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Nadira and Roger King are touring the complex-care facility next week after receiving word through the Champlain Community Care Access Centre that Ricky has been approved for 13-day stretches of respite care. That means the parents — who have been running off their feet to care for Ricky at home since he suffered catastrophic injuries in car accident in 2006 — could finally be getting some serious rest and relaxation at various intervals.
But Ricky will still be spending considerable time at the family’s Limoges home under the care of his mom and dad, who are understandably apprehensive about being apart from him after all these years.
“It’s tough for a mother to let go,” says Nadira. “But I have to make a start with that, for Ricky, for myself and my family.”
Ricky is considered to be in a vegetative state as a result of brain injuries he suffered in September 2006 after his car went out of control on a steep hill and rolled several times.
Saint Vincent’s offer could not have come at a better time. In a Public Citizen story last month, his parents spoke about their struggles to care for Ricky even with 200 hours of help a month from personal support workers and nurses provided through the CCAC. Their search for respite care for a few days a month turned up nothing as there aren’t any facilities for men in Ricky’s age group.
There was an offer for respite care from the Ottawa Rotary Home after the Citizen article appeared, but Nadira believes Ricky’s condition might be too complex for that facility.
At this point, Nadira doesn’t know how many times Saint-Vincent will be able to accommodate Ricky, and there’s always the chance her son may not react well outside the familiar home atmosphere. But for now, they are looking at it as a possibility of getting some normalcy back into their lives and spending some time with their three other adult children and grandchildren.
‘DECEASED’ WOMAN GETS OLD AGE BENEFIT BACK
Ronald and Denise Leclair say they were dumbfounded to learn the federal government considered Denise deceased.
Denise Leclair, shocked to hear her old age benefits had been discontinued last month because government computers listed her as “deceased,” got her money Friday after The Public Citizen started looking into her story earlier in the week.
Though Denise and her husband, Ron, thought they had the matter cleared up after speaking to a Service Canada agent on April 28, those dumb computers still had her listed as deceased on Tuesday. After the paper started making inquiries with the Employment and Social Development department, it didn’t take long to get the issue resolved.
Daughter Lynne Nemeth says Service Canada called her parents at 8 a.m. Thursday, the day the Citizen article appeared, with apologies and assurances that Denise’s benefits would be in her bank account on Friday.
HYDRO INSURER SETTLES CLAIM OF TRUCK DAMAGE TO DRIVEWAY
Chris Johnson discovered some rather sizeable cracks in his driveway last February after an Ottawa Hydro truck drove over it in order to access some wires on his neighbour’s house.
Chris Johnson’s story about a large Hydro Ottawa truck damaging the front of his driveway in February and the unwillingness by the utility’s insurance to pony up for repairs obviously embarrassed powers at both organizations.
Last month, shortly after the Citizen detailed Johnson’s frustrations in getting his cracked driveway fixed, the municipal utility apologized to the Hamilton Avenue South resident and Hydro’s insurer, Travelers Canada, emailed him to say it was going to re-examine his claim.
For some reason, the second look convinced the insurer that Johnson deserved a settlement. Perhaps it was statements from people who saw the boom truck in his driveway on Feb. 5, as Hydro workers were doing a wire hookup at a neighbouring home under renovations. The Citizen story noted there were witnesses, and Travelers then asked Johnson for their information.
Johnson recently received a cheque from Travelers. As he shares a double driveway with the house being renovated and the crack extends by a foot on the asphalt that property, Johnson says he will await his new neighbours to discuss the repair with them.
LCBO SENDS $40 GIFT CARD TO MAN REFUSED SERVICE
Hugh McCord, 76, wonders if the hat his brother gave him led LCBO clerks to refuse to sell him a bottle of wine despite his protests that he had not been drinking.
The humiliation Hugh McCord felt after an LCBO outlet refused to serve him over suspicion that he had been drinking has been numbed by a couple of free bottles of some pretty good California wine.
LCBO’s head office promised to look into McCord’s complaint when it was contacted by this newspaper in March, about a week after he was refused service on St. Patrick’s Day at the St. Laurent Shopping Centre liquor store. McCord, who had gone into the store to buy some wine after having a coffee with a friend at the nearby Starbucks, says he has never been drunk in his life, nor had he been drinking before he was refused service.
When an LCBO customer relations manager called to apologize, McCord says he was told he was going to be sent a $10 gift card. After explaining his favourite wine was a $19.95 California red, the manager upped the offer to $20. Following a bit more negotiating and his mention that he was on a fixed income, McCord says she agreed to make it $40.
“It came to a fruitful end, ” says McCord, who says the two bottles he bought with the gift card are long gone. ” “Too bad. You could have come over and had a glass.”
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