The start of a long process
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- Published on Thursday, March 5, 2015
By Kate Jackman-Atkinson
The Neepawa Banner
Almost a week after the fire, Neepawa 水果视频 Hardware owner Pat Guilbert has a long road ahead of him. On Wednesday evening, he watched the store he bought in September 2008, and expanded since then, burn. Like the tenants, he too lost irreplaceable items in the fire.
About 13 people were employed by the store and Guilbert said that making sure that they were looked after was his primary concern. The next step is to look after the store. 鈥淚t鈥檚 just a process, we have to go through everything. It鈥檚 day-by-day, week-by-week,鈥� he said, 鈥淲e have to get through the first stage of the process.鈥� One of the initial steps is to determine that value of what was destroyed by the fire.
The Office of the Fire Commissioner has pegged the damage at $3 million, but Guilbert didn鈥檛 want to give a figure until they had gone through everything.
While it鈥檚 still too early to know definitely plans for rebuilding, Neepawa 水果视频 Hardware customers can continue dealing with the company through stores in neighbouring towns.
