IT’S HEAVY GARBAGE TIME
Good home found for comfy couch.
When Mira Beaton left her house on Sunday evening, she didn’t expect to find what she did.
The 18-year-old came across a red couch in fairly good condition being put curbside on Mitchell Avenue in Dominion. It was headed for the annual heavy garbage collection and it included a sign that read ‘free to a good home.’
Beaton, a carpenter apprentice at Woodbine electrical substation west of Marion Bridge, instantly thought it would be perfect for her friend who had been looking for a new couch, but couldn’t afford a brand new one.
“The first thing I thought was how beautiful a shape it was in,” said Beaton. “She has been looking for a couch for awhile, her couch was falling apart.”
After asking her friend if she wanted it, Beaton looked it over and found it was in pretty good condition.
Beaton immediately starting looking for someone with a truck to take the couch to her friend’s house because it wouldn’t fit in her jeep.
She waited an hour for the truck to arrive, sitting on the couch to make sure nobody else took it.
Mary Beaton, Mira’s mother, said another woman walked by the couch and mentioned she was going to call her husband to pick it up.
“Mira told them to they would have to take her with them if they wanted it,” laughed Beaton.
After the lengthy wait, Mira Beaton and some friends loaded the couch on the truck, taking it to her friend’s house in nearby Reserve Mines.
“She was ecstatic over the couch,” said Mary Beaton of the friend’s reaction to getting the piece of furniture.
“They brought it in the house and they set it up and took the old couch out to the curb.”
This year’s heavy garbage collection will begin on Monday across the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Residents are asked to place their items at curbside no later than 6 a.m. on that day.
The amount of heavy garbage collected in recent years has ranged from a high of 3,223 tonnes in 2010 to a low of 2,200 tonnes in 2013.
Last year, roughly 2,400 tonnes of heavy garbage was collected during the spring pick up, with an additional 4,700 tonnes collected in the aftermath of the Thanksgiving Day storm in October.