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Worried about your Island property? Manitoulin Camp Check offers solutions

MANITOULIN—Central Manitoulin is asking Manitoulin residents to be proactive rather than reactive when it comes to our friends and neighbours with seasonal residences or cottages.

Central Manitoulin Outreach Coordinator Marcus Mohr has composed a list of Island contractors and maintenance and property management companies that can be hired to keep an eye on seasonal residents’ homes.

“’Why can’t we check on our property?’ We’ve been hearing that statement a lot,” Mr. Mohr says, “and it’s a valid concern.”

Mr. Mohr also hopes that those Islanders with friends and neighbours ‘from away’ will offer to keep an eye on those properties, maybe sending along a few photos too, to help ease people’s minds.

An ad that can be found in the coming edition of The Manitoulin Expositor from Central Manitoulin promoting the Manitoulin Camp Check urges Islanders to offer help instead of making demands and offer solutions to promote the spirit of working together in this unprecedented time.

“It’s a proactive response,” Mr. Mohr adds.

Visit www.centralmanitoulin.ca/content/camp-check for more information.

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Alicia McCutcheon
Alicia McCutcheon
Alicia McCutcheon has served as editor-in-chief of The Manitoulin Expositor and The Manitoulin West Recorder since 2011. She grew up in the newspaper business and earned an Honours B.A. in communications from Laurentian University, Sudbury, also achieving a graduate certificate in journalism, with distinction, from Cambrian College. Ms. McCutcheon has received peer recognition for her writing, particularly on the social consequences of the Native residential school program. She manages a staff of four writers from her office at The Manitoulin Expositor in Little Current.