Furnace Leaks, Coventry Woman Fumes While Waiting Days For Promised Sears Repair

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Here’s this weekend’s column:

 

Do not count Catherine Nasin among those who welcomed the recent Fourth of July holiday. All it meant was one more day of cleaning up a furnace leak as she waited for Sears repair service to return to her Coventry home.

Nasin, who turns 88 in August, was exasperated when she called The Bottom Line just before the Fourth. Because of the mid-week holiday, and an apparent low-priority classification on the service call, she’d have to wait until July 11 for the repair.

That was more than she could take. Aside from closing in on 88, Nasin was also wearing an air boot on her left leg, up to her knee, as she awaited surgery for a ruptured tendon. (“The basketball girls have that problem more than anything,” she says, “from all the jumping they do.”)

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