2nd request: please help, don't know where else to turn--

[Guest guest]

Hello:

My daughter (7) and I both are chemically injured. The women's

restroom at our local " community-based " food co-op has had an odor of

mold, on and off, for the past year and a half which seems to

originate in the sinks there or in the wall behind them. This odor is

intolerable to both of us and we cannot use this restroom.

I have brought this to the attention of the manager and board of the

co-op, asking them to 1) bring in a mold dog to identify the source

and 2)remediate so there is no more mold growing in the restroom.

They have refused to bring in a mold profesional and instead brought

in a plumber who they claimed " fixed " the problem; they also claimed

to have talked with a mold specialist who " advised them by phone "

about the situation.

In the mean time, we have been told that if we need to use the

restroom, we should go to the back of the store and " use the employees

restroom. "

I have tried to be amicable about resolving this sitation but it is

clear to me that the manager and the board are not remotely interested

in resolving this.

What do you suggest I do next? Also, do you think the co-op

is violating the ADA in not accomodating us and sending us to the

other restroom? (After all, if we were in wheelchairs and they made

this restroom inaccessible to our chairs, everyone would be up in

arms, but because my daughter and I dance with an " invisible "

disability, we are being treated terribly).

I absolutely have to shop at this place for organic food, at the

advice of my child's EI specialist.

Any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Clair and daughter Sofia