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Volume 135 Issue 48 Friday, February 9, 2018 www.minnedosatribune.com 90 cents plus tax

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Marjorie The offices of Heritage Co-op Administration, MNP and Alexander Jackson Law have been temporarily relocated
from the new office complex on Main Street as a result of an unexpected water break last weekend.
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By HILLARY MILLER discovered the shocking, Zacharias was unsure been temporarily relo- return to their office spaces
soggy problem. Thus, they of how long the restora- cated. Heritage Co-op Ad- at 116 Main Street South.

A n unfortunate acci-
dent has struck the
new Main Street office
complex that houses the
Heritage Co-op Admin-
If your istration, MNP and Alex-
label ander Jackson Law Office.
reads Over the weekend, a sec-
ond floor water line broke,
18/02/28 flooding nearly the entire
It’s time to building.
renew your Fortunately, the prob-
subscription lem was caught on Sunday,
Call 867-3816 when a Co-op employee
went into the building and
were able to somewhat
contain the water and be-
gin working to fix the dam-
age.
According to Lorne
Zacharias, General Man-
ager for Heritage Co-op,
some major reconstruc-
tion will be required within
the new building. Cancade
Restoration has been on-
site assessing the damage
and doing some demoli-
tion work within the build-
ing.
tion will take, or what the
cost will be, as the assess-
ment was still in the early
phases. “We don’t really
have any idea of that until
all of the engineering work
has been done, and then
we have a construction
contract, but that is going
to take a while even just to
get to that,” he said.
At presstime, Wednes-
day, all employees who
were working on the first
floor of the building had
ministration had moved
back to the space on the
second floor of the grocery
store, local MNP staff were
moved to the Neepawa
MNP office and Alexander
Jackson Law Office posted
contact info on their front
door for clients needing
their services.
Once a more perma-
nent timeline for the need-
ed repairs is in place, staff
and tennants will have a
better idea when they can
“We are hoping not to
inconvenience customers
too badly,” said Zacharias,
“We will keep the rest of
the organization support-
ed as best as we can, and
we’ll get through it.”
While this is an un-
fortunate circumstance,
Zacharias stressed that
thanfully no one was in-
jured in this incident and
the damaged building and
materials can and will be
replaced.