It has been three years almost to the day since we last wrote at length about Walnut Manor, that dreadful hovel where some of the most vulnerable in the community were warehoused.
On July 7, 2021, we documented the shuttering of Walnut Manor under a Section 13 closure order as the facility was “an unfit, unsafe environment for living.”
That item in this corner continued, “Seven years after the health unit closed the kitchen for three days due to food handling and storage violations, Southwestern Public Health (SWPH) ordered Walnut Manor closed due to public health violations.
“After years of enduring rodents, bed bugs, mould and food best described as appalling and not appealing, the health unit today (July 7) issued a Section 13 Order under the Health Protection and Promotion Act to close Walnut Manor in St. Thomas due to the existence of significant health hazards.
