Sad when an old place burns

[lew]

I live 10 miles north of a little Kawartha town called Lakefield and have been here going on 16 years and before that we had a house trailer 5 miles from Lakefield for 36 years. There's a great little hardware store in town that everybody uses and I've been shopping there over 50 years. Walk in the door and before you go 20 feet several employees will see if you need help. Everybody is so darned friendly and helpful and it's just a plain nice place to shop. There's also 6 apartments above that house 6 families. Seems like this place was built in the mid 1800's. 

Sadly the place caught fire a few days back and is now so badly damaged they started tearing it down yesterday. Flames went up and totally destroyed the roof then the 2nd story started collapsing into the main store. Six families lives ruined after losing everything they owned including a few pets and a bunch of good folks now unemployed in an area with few good paying jobs.

Small town folks are fantastic though and right away a few GoFundMe's were started to help these folks get through it plus there's collections of clothing and what ever may be needed.

Gonna miss shopping here and talking with so may of the employees that I know. 

A nice place gone forever.

Edited October 13 by lew

[knightfisher]

I shopped there a few times, back when I fishing the various water ways in the area.