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LETTER: Cassellholme has been a bad decision from the beginning

'We as retirees who live on a low income, in their own house must cough up the money for an ultra-modern building and pay more and more taxes to feed this building. Meaning, my food intake will become less. They knew beforehand that this was coming'
Letter to the Editor
2021 06 03 Cassellholme (Campaigne) 4(1)
Stu Campaigne/BayToday

Editor's note: Ms. Castelijn writes in response to the BayToday story Cassellholme fees ‘crippling for Mattawa’ Mayor Bélanger warns.

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To the editor:

We knew, that the bubble would burst into our wallets with the building of a new retirement home in North Bay called Cassellholme!

It has been a bad decision from the beginning.

Personally, I think it could be done with renovations to update it to current safety rules that would follow the laws of fire safety.

We are aiming to have the elderly stay at home longer with more and better help in their own house. Which would be wonderfuĺ for them and our wallet.

We as retirees who live on a low income, in their own house must cough up the money for an ultra-modern building and pay more and more taxes to feed this building. Meaning, my food intake will become less. They knew beforehand that this was coming.

My husband and I are retirees and live in our own house on a low income. Every month we have to put money aside for two property tax bills in a year.

Myself, I am in a wheelchair and depend on my husband 24 hours a day to assist me. We hired a housekeeper every two weeks to help my husband make time free for other necessities. And now, we get to pay for a new nursing home which they knew was going to be expensive for the city and towns around.

I don't understand this politics.

Maria Castelijn

Calvin