Dear Editor:

Regarding your Aug. 13 story, WV's Klee Wyck Faces Closure: This decline has been happening over a long time. When I looked at it during the time we were working on the Heritage Register, the basement was a fire trap with old paint covered easels, coil liners for hanging baskets and boxes of scraps of paper and fabric.

As the situation was explained to me, the main problem was the sealing of the exterior with some type of watertight and airtight coating which has trapped water causing serious decay.

Probably the most serious loss is not the house but the loss of the garden. It is apparent that many of the rare rhododendrons have been reduced to a single stem and will die out in a couple of years. I understand that there was a complete inventory of the garden commissioned, but all trace of this has been lost.

It would seem that there has to be some type of review of the conditions and responsibilities when it comes to the district accepting gifts from its citizens.

Ali Brown, West Vancouver