Canada Post resumes mail delivery to infested Victoria Towers apartment building
The province has hired a tenant support worker to work with residents of a BC Housing apartment building in Prince George plagued by a bedbug infestation.
Earlier this summer exterminator Mike Jaenicke, owner/operator of Interior Pest Control, told The Citizen he was unable to treat one Victoria Towers suite he referred to as “ground zero” because the apartment was littered with kitchen waste, kids toys and clothing which prevented him from applying the liquid pesticide.
Poitras knows of wheelchair-bound residents who are unable to bag up clothing and move items away from apartment walls to prepare for an exterminator. She said they have no home care support to help them with those tasks. During that time, tenants were required to go to the downtown Canada Post station on Fifth Avenue to collect their mail, an inconvenience for residents of the low-income BC Housing unit, some of whom have health and mobility challenges.
Gina, an 11th-floor resident, welcomes having somebody with authority around to represent the concerns of Victoria Towers residents and has volunteered to be a tenant liaison.
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