The ongoing water problems at The Lighthouse continue. Today as they were working on the sprinkler system, a line broke under pressure and flooded out the dining room. In case you are counting, that’s three floods now. Later in the day as Marcel and I were talking the fire alarms went off again and we [...]
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Renovations at The Lighthouse
DeeAnn Mercier takes you on a tour of the renovations that are ongoing at The Lighthouse Supported Living right now. Mental Health Services is providing funding for nine rooms to be renovated and then used for long term mental health beds. It will provide increased stability for the residents which saves the system a lot [...]
Looking at harm reduction from a Christian perspective
So Calgary has stopped giving out free crack pipes as part of it’s harm reduction strategy. Since 2008, Alberta Health Services had been giving out crack-pipe kits as part of the Safeworks program, an effort to reduce transmittable diseases. The kits contained a glass pipe, mouthpiece and cleaning tool and were handed out in an [...]
Needed: School Supplies for Low Income Families
The Salvation Army Community Services needs school supplies for low income families. While you are moving between Staples, Costco, Wal-mart, and London Drugs getting stuff for yourself or you kids, feel free to pick up some extra notebooks, binders, and pens and drop them off at the Salvation Army. It’s a good program that makes [...]
Wollaston Lake
Since the middle of last week when the Wollaston Lake fire forced the evacuation of the community to Prince Albert and to two locations in Saskatoon, I have been handling food services at the Saskatoon Kinsmen / Henk Ruys Soccer Centre for the Salvation Army EDS since the first evacuees arrived. What generally happens is [...]
