‘Bad things happen to good people’
Name: Linda Penney
Age: 59
Occupation: Dining room supervisor at a facility for senior citizens, part-time tax preparer, part-time insurance sales
(Troy Media) Two brutal years of turmoil began for Linda Penny in 2013. She was forced out of her home, her dream of opening a new business collapsed and then her husband died.
Just as Linda and her husband were preparing to make a fresh start with a new business, the flood of June 2013 that inundated southern Alberta uprooted the couple from their rented home in Gleichen. Living in a series of hotels for a year, they realized they had to abandon plans to open a restaurant in nearby Cluny.
The couple had known tough times before. After Linda had fallen a couple of years earlier, she suffered the side-effects of a concussion for 18 months. With her unable to work, the couple were forced to close food concession booths they operated at two Brooks arenas.