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“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta
di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta
ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Anoralit Angelina Roos
Mihor conoci como: “Nora”
*15-01-1948 - †25-06-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia
despues.
Surely your goodness and love will follow me all
the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house
of the LORD forever “ Psalm 23:6
The World changes from year to year, our lives
from day to day, but the love and memory of
you, shall never pass away.
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa
fayecimento di nos ser stima:
Sra. Marilyn B. Croes
Cariñosamente yama “Nanien”
*12-12-1955- †25-06-2021
Acto di despedida y cremashon lo wordo anuncia
despues
obituario/u.s. news Diamars 29 Juni 2021
Despite warning, town deemed condo building
in ‘good shape’
(AP) - Despite an engineer’s warning of ma-
jor structural problems, a town building of-
ficial told board members their Florida high-
rise condominium was in “very good shape”
almost three years before it collapsed, accord-
ing to minutes of that meeting released Mon-
day.
The Surfside official, Rosendo “Ross” Prieto was
quoted as making those comments at a meeting of
the Champlain Towers South board on Nov. 15,
2018. That was just over a month after engineering
firm Morabito Consultants issued a report describ-
ing key flaws in the structure.
The discussion with Prieto came as Champlain
Towers was beginning to explore what work was by town officials. “All the main concerns over
needed under city and county ordinances for the their forty-year recertification process were ad-
building to meet a 40-year recertification that was dressed.”
to arrive in 2021.
Yet there is no evidence any of the critical concrete
The board meeting minutes say that Prieto told structure work ever started, the documents show.
them in 2018 the Morabito engineering report had Owners of the 136 units had been told earlier this
collected the necessary information and “it appears year they would have to pay their share of a $15
the building is in very good shape.” million assessment — $9.1 million of which was
major work — by July 1. That assessment ranged
A day later, Prieto told the then-town manager of from about $80,000 for a one-bedroom unit to
Surfside he thought the meeting was a success and more than $330,000 for a penthouse.
credited Champlain Towers with getting a good Prieto no longer works at Surfside and efforts to
early start on the recertification process. locate him Monday for comment were not im-
mediately successful. Prieto previously told the
“The response was very positive from everyone in Miami Herald he didn’t remember getting the
the room,” Prieto wrote in the email, also released
Morabito report and declined to comment on the
November 2018 board meeting.
The minutes were forwarded to Surfside officials
on Sunday by an attorney for the board, accord-
ing to the town.
The Morabito report focused attention on the
pool deck, which was found to have waterproof-
ing underneath that had failed and had been laid
flat instead of sloping to drain off water. This
threatened not only the concrete slab under the
“Señor, ta mi Wardador, pool but also other structural areas.
mi n’ tin falta di nada;
Den cunucu di yerba berde
E ta pone mi sosega. “Failure to replace the waterproofing in the near
E ta hiba mi na awa trankil, future will cause the extent of the concrete de-
terioration to expand exponentially,” said the
pa mi bolbe haya forsa.” Salmo 23 report, which also cited “abundant cracking” in
Cu tristesa na nos curason, concrete columns and beams.
nos ta participa fayecimento di nos ser stima:
While numerous theories have emerged, no de-
finitive cause has been identified in Thursday’s
collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers
South building that left at least 10 people con-
firmed dead and 151 missing.
One problem that surfaced back in 2019 involved
work at another building adjacent to Champlain
Towers South.
“We are concerned that the construction next to
(Champlain) is too close,” board member Mara
Chouela wrote in an email to Prieto in January
Lorenzo Thiel, 2019. The construction work, she added, is “dig-
miho conoci como ‘Denchi’ ging too close to our property and we have con-
*05-09-1951 - †26-06-2021 cerns regarding the structure of our building.”
Ta invita pa acto di condolencia y entiero: Prieto responded that Surfside didn’t have an
diahuebs 1 di juli 2021 di 9 or – 11 or di official role in that issue. “There is nothing for
mainta na Aurora Funeral Home, despues me to check. The best course of action is to have
saliendo pa Santana Catolico na Paradera
someone monitor the fence, pool and adjacent
Despues di entiero nos no por ricibi bishita di areas for damage or hire a consultant to monitor
condolencia na cas. these areas,” he wrote.