Residents of East Vancouver’s Nanaimo and Hastings neighbourhood said their goodbyes to a much-loved local character at a rainy outdoor memorial service at Pandora Park Saturday afternoon (May 30).
Michael Lorimer, a disabled former high-rise window washer, accepted donations of food and money for approximately 15 years from his station on the sidewalk in front of Church’s Chicken at 2304 East Hastings Street.
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On May 19, Lorimer, whom everyone called simply “Mike”, died in St. Paul’s Hospital. The cause of death was natural, believed to be a lung complication (though not COVID-19).
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