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East Avenue Woman, 72, Addresses Neighbor’s Unexpected Blight Complaint
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An East Avenue woman, 72, said repairmen are close to mending a broken fence that prompted a neighbor she’s never met to file a blight complaint which also finds fault with “all sorts of stuff” that became visible in the yard after January’s wind storms brought it down. Jacqueline Owolo (née Walker) of 125 East Ave.— a New Canaan High School graduate known to scores of locals through her work as a nurse at Waveny Care Center and as a member of the Community Baptist Church—said a single section of the fence came down “and it pulled down another part.”
The replacement fencing has been delivered and the son of a family friend is stepping in to install it, said Owolo, a mother of two and grandmother of three whose own son lives in California. A neighbor across Summer Street on April 26 filed a blight complaint saying “3 panels of fence has been torn down since wind storm in January 2016” and “Coat hangers and plastic tape used to repair and failed.”
“Yard and home is not maintained,” said the complaint, obtained by NewCanaanite.com following a formal request. “Yard is littered with stuff. All sorts of stuff!