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I'm Ruth, retired on a pension. My husband Peter will be old enough to receive a pension in August 2026 -- and he's unable to be employed -- so only my pension supports both of us until then.
We live in rural Kootenay, British Columbia. On June 26th, while I was napping in our bedroom, our huge 200+ years old willow tree, with 2 trunks, cracked under its weight, split in half, and that half came crashing down on our house, landing on the roof, missing me by 3 feet. Its diameter is about 4 feet. Its branches, about 2 feet diameters, punctured through our roof and ceiling into our entryrooms in 3 places. Our insurance company is paying a limited set amount for the general contractor, the arborist team, and the carpenters to remove and rebuild the punctured roof. But we need help funding workers to help clear out debris from our property -- I've got a chronic disease of whole body pains and Peter is not much better with his spine and achilles; to buy a power saw big enough for us to cut and remove the huge heavy stumps the arborists left sitting on our lawn; to pay for food and utilities and gas; and to pay the insurance company's deductible. I think we'll need $3000+, but I started this gofundme asking only $1200. Hoping you can you help us at all?
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    Ruth Lowther
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    Winlaw, BC

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