Maritime Canadians show how helpful they are to neighbors

Halifax officials ordered a 78 year old woman to paint her home, or face a fine.

Someone complained that Jacqueline Porter's house is "unsightly". The bylaws officers told her that the municipality will paint the house, send her the bill as well as a $250 fine. She was left in tears after repeated visits from the bylaws officers. Porter said that given her limited finances, painting the house will force her to not heat her house in the winter!

Only a week after the news came out on this, volunteers fixed her house in a one day work party.This was from neighbors as well as members of the Canadian Armed Forces.

The article goes on to say:

The pressure is now off David Porter. He was working on his mother's
house, but the wet summer weather and his recovery from skin cancer got
in the way.

"It's a pity it takes a military operation to get the city to stop bothering my mother," Porter said.

Kudos for the volunteers helping their neighbor. Shame on a literalist municipality and robotic workers.