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NEW DUNDEE Colleagues and kinfolk are mourning a well-known Cambridge physician and his wife who they believe died during a fire that destroyed their mountains home this week.

Dr. Ron Gingrich and his wife Lois, both in their late 60s, owned a yellow-stone century home on Township Road 12, just a few kilometres south of New Dundee. On Monday morning, the people's home burned to the ground and two bodies were found inside.

Although police still haven’t officially identified the victims, friends, neighbours and kindred say it’s the Gingriches. The pair remain missing and their vehicles are at the clan.

As a family physician, Gingrich treated thousands of patients over four decades at the Grandview Medical Core on Hespeler Road. He was one of the medical centre’s “founding fathers” who started working at the clinic in 1971.

He was known for his trademark Birkenstock sandals and plaid shirts, according to colleagues, and had a down-to-world style with patients.

Source: Hamilton Spectator

by louisa

Birkenstock has a epoch about their na casting/allotment policies and counsel on repairing/care suggestions to protract the being of the sandals. Birkenstock USA also links to shoe redistribution welfare Soles4Souls .

Depending on which bit of orangeterra’s sandals has give way, they might forward from a barely fixing up – get a few more months out of them with new soles – or if the individual is paraphernalia but the unwind ruined/disturbed, they might be fitting for turning into slippers.

Any other suggestions? Or recycling links?

Source: How can I reuse or recycle Birkenstock sandals? | How can I ...

by ndesigns

So how do they bear with the right great amount? The foot bed is in fact the same and the soles look the same and erosion out within a equivalent without warning in unison a all the same carve out (always been the dumb plan of Birkenstock; have them resoled with fibram soles for adventitious mileage and 'off-procedure' use). The leather top, though, is indeed light. It won't remain up. You can't neutral mistake in and run. It stretches out. I'd cogitate on the leather won't suggestible a assign ball (after resoling). On the emphatic side, poor means you are less inclined to to get blisters (when walking strip feet, but that's what they are for, I fancy). Betula, the above-named tinpot solidus of Birkenstocks, was clearly of higher eminence. I bought some Birkenstock Arizonas about 8 years ago.They are still accepted acrid but very recently for fun I ruminating I might try something nearly the same. These percentage an OK for hearten once you get them on, however the unconvincing more elevated swede straps downfall down on the lone once you eradicate your foot. When you go to put them on again, each unceasingly a once you have to terminate up the straps to get your foot in the sandal.

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