Vancouver Couple Invests in Windsor Community - Mason-Girardot Manor's new owners will revitalize house, open it to community Couple hopes to start renovations within 2-3 months ?Reid and Aloha Johnson recently packed up the dusty glassware and cutlery left behind in the historic Mason-Girardot Manor in Windsor's west end. The Vancouver investors took away the chairs, tables, even the old photographs on the wall. The couple won't reveal too many details, but they've got big plans for the house that used to be home for two mayors of Sandwich back when the neighbourhood was its own municipality. "Until we've been given the OK by the city planners, we can't say too much, except it will be a place the community is welcome to," Aloha Johnson said. "Can't let the cat out of the bag until the cat's been OK'd." The manor was most recently a restaurant until it shut down almost a decade ago. "It was as if [they] closed the doors and walked away," Aloha said. "It…
