Dave Harmer parked his orange Ford Edge SUV in the lot of a Tim Hortons coffee shop on Highway 7 because the restaurant is open 24 hours a day and is close to the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital, where his wife, Millie, 88, is recovering from two strokes and a broken hip.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
He was forced to sleep in the front seat of his car for most of the past four months, he said, since he could no longer afford to pay for both his car and a motel room in Perth. Harmer kept warm by running his car or going into Tim Hortons. Tye-Bernicky says she met Harmer a week ago when he came into her Smiths Falls store to pay for a tank of gas. He told her, “I just can’t do it anymore.”Harmer explained how he had spent much of the past four months in his car to be close to his ailing wife.. “We’ve been receiving donations at the gas station for him: new socks, gas cards,” she said.
Please remove this article... The family of the woman have the police involved to protect her from this man.
The daughter of the woman in hospital in the article is trying to get the to listen to her & take this down. They are actively trying to keep this man away from her mother. Do not share it.
davidpugliese ..looks lie things will be better for him ..but so tough ...and is gonig to get worse as population ages and resources arent aviable