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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Coins for Kids effort News Review’s fundraiser is helping local children Steven Heywood News staff
This year, more than ever, it’s important that the community comes together to help children and families in need. The Peninsula News Review’s annual Coins for Kids campaign is under way, and we’re asking for your pennies, other coins and donations to help us meet or beat last year’s fundrasing total. In 2011, readers who gave to the News Review’s Coins for Kids effort raised $1,441 worth of coins and other donations. The money was given last winter to the Kiwanis Club of Sidney and the Peninsula, which buys gifts for children who “It’s important to would otherwise go ensure that the effort without. This year, after the we’re contributing to Kiwanis Club disbanded, ... continues to reach the News Review those children in need.” decided to get behind Rob McMillan of Canoe – Jim Parker Cove Restaurant and his Secret Santa: Toys for Tots campaign. This effort is reaching out to all local service groups to keep what Kiwanis started alive and well — and growing. “It’s important to ensure that the effort we’re contributing to — the toy drive — continues to reach those children in need,” says Jim Parker, publisher of the News Review. Readers are encouraged to drop off their coins at the News Review office, 6-9843 Second St. in Sidney. As the Royal Canadian Mint will no longer circulate pennies after February, 2013, Parker says the Coins for Kids campaign wants those collections of coppers that people have been saving up — as well as any other coins you want to donate. “We’d be happy to roll them up for you,” he says. The News Review is also interested in hearing from volunteers willing to help roll coins for the fundraising campaign. Call our office at 250-656-1151 to lend a hand.
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Tseycum First Nation band administrator Kristen Bill, Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations Jody Raybould, Tseycum Chief Tanya Jones and Tseycum council member Glenn Jim stand with Ida Chong, B.C. Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, North Saanich Mayor Alice Finall and MLA Murray Coell.
Tseycum on a journey home Provincial grant of $200,000 will help a community heal Devon MacKenzie News staff
The Tseycum First Nation received some exciting news last week in the form of a $200,000 grant from the province to put towards their Journey Home Cemetery. During a traditional ceremony
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on Nov. 16 to re-erect a totem pole that had been previously damaged, Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Minister Ida Chong spoke about the province’s commitment to working with Tseycum to protect their land — mainly the stretch of West Saanich Road that runs through the community and an ancient burial site that lies
along the water’s edge. “We understand the importance of Tseycum’s efforts to both repatriate their ancestors and bury their people with dignity,” said Chong. PLEASE SEE: Roadside landmark, page 2
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