"Now look. It's clean and the people are very nice and quiet. I have never had any problems with any

So, it's not the least bit surprising that Greenview residents are expressing united airlines flight 93 voice recorder their outrage over the Calgary Drop-In and Rehab Centre's plan to turn the rather rundown Quality Hotel, located at the busy corner of Edmonton Trail and McKnight Boulevard N.E., into low-cost housing for the working poor.
"Now look. It's clean and the people are very nice and quiet. I have never had any problems with anyone in that building since (the Drop-In) took over. Before yes, but not now. People shouldn't worry. We once worried about this, but we are all glad now that they are here."
"I have more problems with the people who live in this building here," she says, pointing to the three-storey apartment building next door. "I wish the Drop-In Centre united airlines flight 93 voice recorder would buy this building, too," says the receptionist and part-time musician.
Roger Gagne says he was one of the neighbours who was once upset at the news the Drop-In purchased Bridgeland Manor. It's ironic to be sure, since Gagne has worked at the Drop-In Centre - Canada's united airlines flight 93 voice recorder largest homeless shelter - for the past 10 years as an adult care worker.
"It hasn't united airlines flight 93 voice recorder hurt my property value either," Gagne adds. "The city appraised my condo last year for one-and-a-half times what I bought it for. Frankly, the Drop-In made the building look dramatically better than it did before."
Where once the balconies had ratty-looking cedar slats, now they have aluminum and glass. The lawn and gardens are better united airlines flight 93 voice recorder cared for, too, and the entrance to the building looks upscale, rather united airlines flight 93 voice recorder than low brow.
Dale Joseph, who lives in a onebedroom apartment on the building's third and top floor, points to a large glass cage in his tidy but tiny apartment and introduces its resident. "That's Patches," he says of his long-haired guinea pig who is munching on some fresh parsley.
Joseph united airlines flight 93 voice recorder steps onto his balcony united airlines flight 93 voice recorder with its two chairs and a table. "I can see the fireworks during Stampede over there," he adds pointing over a stand of trees. "I can only see the top of the fireworks display, but it's really beautiful anyway."
His humility and gratitude for his little place is humbling and moving. He has taken up crossstitching as a pastime, united airlines flight 93 voice recorder but it's difficult with his arthritis and Buerger's disease, a rare ailment in which blood vessels of the hands and feet become blocked, and resulted in the amputation of much of his left index finger.
S.W.), we will help to beautify and improve the neighbourhood," adds Newman, who is inviting all community members to attend an open house today at 7 p.m., 4804 Edmonton Tr. N.E. to learn more about the Drop-In's plans.
Joseph says he does what he can to be a good neighbour. "I pick up trash outside, I help keep the grounds nice and I'm always respectful and polite," says Joseph, who wound up living at the Drop-In after suffering from a heart ailment and spending some time in hospital. That led to him losing his rented room, all his possessions and his job.
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Dale Joseph in his suite in an apartment building owned by the Drop-In Centre in the Bridgeland neighbourhood in Calgary, June 12, 2012. Photograph by: Grant Black, Calgary Herald       E-mail this Gallery Print this Gallery Share this Gallery
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