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OTTAWA -- The Great Ottawa Flag War is raging.
On one side, Gaetane True, property manager of Montfort Manor Apartments on Langs Rd. in the east end, and Zev Shafran, president of Devonshire Properties Inc. that owns the 170-unit building of mostly seniors.
On the other side, tenants in six of the units, led by Canadian military vets R. Guy “Vache” Vachon, 75, and Fred Norman, 69, who are furiously defying the edict posted on the lobby wall July 21 that read “those who have any type of flags on their balconies or on their windows, we ask to please take them down.”
Battle cry of Gaetane True, 11 years running the building: “If they want to fly their flags inside their apartments with a fan making them flutter so they can show them off to their friends, fine. But just don’t let me have to look at them.”
Battle cry of Vache Vachon, 25 years in the army, including combat in the Korean War: “I’m not moving my flags from the balcony. I’ll stay with them until I croak.”
Battle cry of Zev Shafran in Vancouver: “We are asking for the building to be brought into a more sightly scene.”
Battle cry of Fred Norman, fightin’ Cape Bretoner: “I served my country for 23 years under the flag of Canada, I’ll be damned if I’ll remove it. If I have to go down with my flag, I will.”
Mostly the Canadian flag. Mostly small flags on little poles attached to the balcony railings. Or in the case of Vache Vachon, the Canadian flag, Acadian flag in honour of his roots, and a Support Our Troops in Afghanistan flag.
In June, Shafran decided the balcony flags were an eye-sore and told True to post the lobby memo.
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Flag flap leads to war of words
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OTTAWA -- The Great Ottawa Flag War is raging.
On one side, Gaetane True, property manager of Montfort Manor Apartments on Langs Rd. in the east end, and Zev Shafran, president of Devonshire Properties Inc. that owns the 170-unit building of mostly seniors.
On the other side, tenants in six of the units, led by Canadian military vets R. Guy “Vache” Vachon, 75, and Fred Norman, 69, who are furiously defying the edict posted on the lobby wall July 21 that read “those who have any type of flags on their balconies or on their windows, we ask to please take them down.”
Battle cry of Gaetane True, 11 years running the building: “If they want to fly their flags inside their apartments with a fan making them flutter so they can show them off to their friends, fine. But just don’t let me have to look at them.”
Battle cry of Vache Vachon, 25 years in the army, including combat in the Korean War: “I’m not moving my flags from the balcony. I’ll stay with them until I croak.”
Battle cry of Zev Shafran in Vancouver: “We are asking for the building to be brought into a more sightly scene.”
Battle cry of Fred Norman, fightin’ Cape Bretoner: “I served my country for 23 years under the flag of Canada, I’ll be damned if I’ll remove it. If I have to go down with my flag, I will.”
Mostly the Canadian flag. Mostly small flags on little poles attached to the balcony railings. Or in the case of Vache Vachon, the Canadian flag, Acadian flag in honour of his roots, and a Support Our Troops in Afghanistan flag.
In June, Shafran decided the balcony flags were an eye-sore and told True to post the lobby memo.
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