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Summer Breakfast Program

Jul 3rd, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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I thought this was kind of cool and I thought I would pass it on.  During the last year, the Salvation Army has been feeding around 100 people three times a week at the Bridge on 20th.  We prepare, bring, and serve the food over there which provides a nutritious and free breakfast to those [...]

Public Meeting

Jun 25th, 2009
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As many of you know, the Salvation Army has been working on opening a women’s shelter in Saskatoon for over a year and a half now.  It’s been a long process and one of the latest parts of the process has been asking the city to rezone a piece of property for us. There is [...]

Off to Prison

Jun 25th, 2009
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I posted a little bit about the day over at the Centre’s weblog but I thought I would post some more thoughts here. Each summer the Centre puts on a big barbecue at Riverbend Institution.  Last year I was asked to go along and four of us headed up north to Prince Albert to cook [...]

Thanks!

Jun 16th, 2009
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I won the Magic 98.3 Bunch for Lunch today.  Four staff from the Centre get to go to Alexander’s for lunch on Magic 98.3.

Men’s Retreat

May 20th, 2009
by Jordon Cooper.
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This came up in an internal staff discussion a couple of weeks ago that started out on a different topic.  We have a bunch of men who live here at the shelter because they really like it here.  Many have said that our staff treat them better than they have ever been treated in their [...]

Job Opening

Apr 28th, 2009
by Jordon.
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The Salvation Army Community Centre (here in Saskatoon) has a job opening for a night residential worker.  A consistent 40 hour work week, good benefits, interesting job.  It’s listed on Sask Jobs as security but it is actually a front line residential worker at the men’s shelter.  If you are interested, e-mail me at jordon.cooper@salvationarmysaskatoon.org [...]

Emergency Shelter for Women and Children

Feb 11th, 2009
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The news just went live yesterday but after almost a year of working on this project, the Salvation Army Community Centre announced that we placed a conditional offer on a house in Pleasant Hill that will serve as an emergency shelter for women and children in Saskatoon. We have some rezoning to take care of, [...]

Christmas Day

Dec 28th, 2008
by Jordon Cooper.
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One of the reasons we opened gifts on Christmas Eve is that I wanted to go down to the shelter on Christmas Day while the guys opened their gifts.  I brought a DVD player and some DVDs as well.  The guys watched The Wrath of Khan (and yes, they all yelled out “Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan” at the [...]

Photos from the weekend

Dec 9th, 2008
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I uploaded some photos from the weekend.  Here are some photos from the Salvation Army Community Christmas Dinner where we fed a little under 1000 people and here are some photos of us on Saturday where we spent the day celebrating an early Christmas at the Reimer’s place.

Mayfair Community Meeting

Oct 8th, 2008
by Jordon Cooper.
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This may be of some interest to some of you but the City is holding a community meeting about the Women’s Emergency Shelter on October 22nd at 7:00 p.m.  It is open to the public and all of the details can be found in a blog post over on the Centre’s website.

Offer accepted

Aug 25th, 2008
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The owners of the house we wanted to buy for the women’s shelter accepted our offer.  We take possession November 1st which is a little behind schedule but is within an acceptable time frame (the schedule was done up months ago and we did pretty good in getting it this close). 

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