Sunday, November 8, 2009

Construction at the Libbey Valley Nursing Community

151 Libbey Valley Avenue houses a small nursing home consisting of between ten and sixteen full-time live-in patients, mostly dementia and Alzheimer's patients, and a team of round-the clock nurses, orderlies, and psychiatrists (as well as occasional manicurists, hairdressers, art teachers, and assorted volunteers). The building dates from 1974; the Libbey Valley Nursing Community was begun in 1982. Papers prove this. It is a clean and quiet facility, and had no reported incidents prior to current renovations.

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In the summer of 2009, renovations were begun to a decrepit heating system. While they were at it, Community Director Jocelyn Delessips planned on knocking down a few basement walls and adding in half a dozen more dorm-style rooms. Demolitions revealed an underground wing - warrens of hallways and small rooms, living quarters and storage rooms, shelves stacked with boxes upon boxes of paper documents.

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The documents have not all been read as of yet, but the oldest so far date to 1912. Soda cans, chip bags, and tabloid papers left scattered on the floor, near the reading chairs, stuffed into the shelves, date from the turn of the century through to the current year. These rooms were completely sealed. Dust lays half an inch thick. It's all a bit of a mystery.

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