The B.C. Safety Authority has asked the Burns Lake Thrift Shop to remove a dumbwaiter recently installed at the site after a safety officer considered it unsafe.
The freight elevator would connect the Thrift Shop’s new basement to the main floor, sparing the volunteers - whose average age is 75 - from carrying boxes up and down the stairs.
The dumbwaiter was built and donated by local resident George Hamp, a retired building contractor.
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