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Wa r r i o r G a m e s h o s t comes home P. 5
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
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Krista Carle of Victoria shows off her quirky 2007 Mini Cooper S during Brits on the Beach July 15 at Transfer Beach. About 200 British cars and motorcycles were on display during the show. For more photos, please see page 12. Niomi Pearson/Chronicle
Resources Centre celebrates 20 years Lindsay Chung The Chronicle
The Ladysmith Resource Centre Association is turning 20 this weekend. Its mission is to co-ordinate and provide services and information to enhance the quality of life in Ladysmith and the surrounding community, and for the past 20 years, the Ladysmith Resources Centre Association (LRCA) has been doing just that and touching the lives of thousands of people through programs ranging from the Ladysmith Food Bank to the
Ladysmith Dads’ Group. They found a place to rent under This Sunday (July 22), the LRCA the dentist’s office on High Street. is hosting a 20th-anniversary party Volunteers helped build offices from 1-4 p.m. at Spirit Square at down there in 1992, and they got 630 Second Ave. There will be a a phone line in place. barbecue, children’s activities, “We started with one volunteer door prizes and tours of the LRCA to man the phones,” recalled Lait. facility. “The concept was to be able to supThe LRCA was borne out of inter- ply information to people.” agency meetings attended by comA second volunteer soon joined munity members who worked to the LRCA, and she actually just assist families who were in need, retired from the organization at explained executive director the end of May. Dennis Lait, who has been there The LRCA remained under the since the very beginning. dentist’s office for a couple of “Some of us felt there was more years until the demand for the that could be done,” he said. association’s services caused the
LRCA to outgrow that space. The LRCA moved to the building that is now Telford’s. Around 1996, the LRCA moved to First Avenue into the building that now houses the new Ladysmith Museum. “We brought with us the programming that was in the old building and started to grow what we were offering,” said Lait. In about 2000, the LRCA started looking at the need for a permanent location. The LRCA partnered with the Boys and Girls Club, the Town of Ladysmith and the Seniors’ Centre Society, and they moved into the
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new Community Services Centre on High Street in 2011. “From the LRCA’s point of view, we are still committed and our prime focus is on providing programming and services, and with these new facilities, we hope that we can continue to provide services and expand on what we provide in the community,” said Lait. “We hope to be here for many, many years to continue to provide service and address the needs of the community as it grows. We have a tremendous group of volunteers with us, and they are the backbone of what we do.”
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