ILDERTON and area Villager
Rest Easy with Rest Easy Property Watch Rest Easy Property Watch serves as a safeguard for your home or vacation property, helping to maintain / lower insurance coverage, enhance safety, and keep you informed while you are away. Mike Van Steensel had been asked by family and friends from time to time to keep an eye on their properties while they were away and surmised that others could also benefit from the service. “Part of the idea came after a heavy downpour flooded many basements in our area, and the unfortunate mess that some people found upon return from vacation. I figured if there was a trusted company people could rely on to check their homes while they were out of town, everybody could travel stress-free.” “Our team goes beyond routine inspections, ensuring your return home is free of surprises,” says Mike. “We do more than just a casual check. We make sure everything is intact and functioning properly, inside and out. Our basic package includes exterior inspection of doors and windows for security- related incidents, assuring the home looks occupied by collecting any flyers, papers and mail, performing an external visual inspection of the roof, deck, and surrounding trees to identify any damage and conducting an interior inspection of the home for leaks, storm and water damage. We also ensure all security measures are working.” Homeowners are immediately informed of any concerns. “One time, we noticed tire tracks in a driveway and footprints behind the owner’s garage. We were relieved to identify the cause – a scheduled propane delivery.”
Aaron McCall, Mike Van Steensel and Dan Jenken
Optional extended services include an indoor camera with real- time motion alerting, snow removal (driveway, sidewalks and pipes/exhaust), ensuring the furnace or air conditioning are working optimally, checking hot tubs and pools, taking trash and recycling to the curb, watering lawns, gardens and indoor plants, and more. We’ll even make sure you have fresh milk and groceries stocked for your return!” Rest Easy Property Watch will also conduct your cottage or trailer opening at the beginning of the season, and close it up at the end.
– Back in the Day –
Dorothy Kathleen Braithwaite (San- born) was born in Ilderton in 1900. She earned a Bachelor of Arts de- gree from Western University and then in 1918, the university passed a resolution to admit women into the Faculty of Medicine under the same requirements as men. Braith- waite entered the program, becom- ing the first female medical student there, and received her doctor certi- fication in 1924.
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