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Gaming aids local groups Grants go to support community social services, sports and arts
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bbotsford and Mission non-profit groups have received more than $ 8 0 0 , 0 0 0 i n gaming grants from the p r ov i n c i a l M i n i s t r y o f Public Safety and Solicitor General. Mission groups received $130,510 in the latest round of gaming grants. They are: Mission Arts Council, $10,000; Long-Term Inmates Now in the Community (L.I.N.C.), $20,950; Mission Association for
Community Living, $46,260; Mission Community Services, $32,000; Mission Adopta-Block Society, $11,300; and the Sweet Adelines International, $10,000. Seventeen Abbotsford non-profit groups were awarded $735,810. These include many social service groups, such as the Fraser Valley Child Development Centre, $160,00; Abbotsford Youth Commission, $83,500; the Centre for Epilepsy and Sei-
zure Education B.C., $200,000; Abbotsford International Airshow, $50,000; Pacificsport Regional Sport Centre, Fraser Valley, $50,000; the John Howard Society, $45,000; Abbotsford Hospice Society, $40,000; and Abbotsford Community Services, $30,000. Others are Special Olympics B. C. Society Abbotsford, $18,750; B.C. Schizophrenia Society, $2,400; Fraser Valley Invasive Plant Council, $5,000; Kinsmen Club of Abbotsford, $3,500; Mount Lehman Community Asso-
ciation, $6,060; Valley Echoes Chorus Society, $10,000; Abbotsford Arts Council, $22,000; Abbotsford Judo Club, $7,600; and the Fraser Valley Water Colour Society, $2,000. In B.C., 178 recipient groups will share $8,367,982 in provincial gaming grants. Grant recipients offer programs in the areas of sports, arts and culture, public safety, environment, human and social services, and parent advisory and district parent advisory councils. Many of those groups provide important services for British Columbia families.
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“Abbotsford and Mission families rely on the important programs and services that these organizations deliver, and I am proud to be part of a government that recognizes the contribution these groups make in our community,” AbbotsfordMission MLA Randy Hawes said in a release. MLA Michael de Jong, Abbotsford West, said the grants allow the community-based groups to keep delivering programs to local residents. For more see www.pssg. gov.bc.ca/gaming/grants/ forms-guidelines
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