Black out, but not alone!
To the Editor:
After it got dark on Aug. 14, I was sitting alone and
decided I would go visit a friend in the building. So we sat out on the
balcony until about 9 p.m. or so.
When I went to leave, I opened the door and it was pitch
black, my friend said she had a flashlight, I got the flashlight from her
and went to the stairwell to go home and I was afraid, so I went down to the
maintenance man instead, and just as I got to the door he came out. Jokingly
I said I’m afraid and I can’t find my way home. Would you help me?
The maintenance men were going to take me home, which is
on the 11th floor, when this gentleman was coming into the
building.
He said, "I will help her." Another resident asked if she
could go too. The man responded, "Come on."
I did not know the gentleman, but he was a fine man.
Every so often, as we climbed the stairs on the way home he would say you
better stop and rest. We are in no hurry. We stopped to take the other
resident to her home on the 5th floor. He took her to her
apartment and came back to the stairwell where I waited and we started
climbing the stairs again. He said don’t you want to rest a while, and we
would stop and rest a couple of minutes.
He said we just have six more floors to go. We went
another floor and we would rest. We did this and walked again to the 10th
floor when we stopped he said, "I don’t believe that you have walked all
this way, wait until I tell my mother.’
I said, but I am just 85 years old. He said I am just as
tired as you.
But I want to say one thing he was a very fine gentleman
and I would like to thank him. I found out today he had come into the
building to check on his mother, his name is Cardell Burston visiting his
mother Mary.
The two men we have working at Towne Centre Place, Dana
Taylor and Robert Furguson are always ready to help you if you just ask
either one of them.
My way of knowing how nice it is at Towne Centre Place is
I have lived here 23 years and I’m very happy here.
Thora Keene
Ypsilanti
