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Kimberley signs on to refugee protection
Mayor Ron McRae helps create awareness of refugee issues By Kaity Brown
Friday, May 10, the East Kootenay Friends of Burma was proud to meet with Mayor Ron McRae and celebrate the statement made by the city that Kimberley is proud to protect our refugees. Kimberley and Cranbrook are the first cities to proclaim that they are proud to protect refugees through the Canadian Council for Refugees’ initiative to fight against the negative propaganda against immigrants from other countries. Shauna Jimenez, a director of the East Kootenay Friends of Burma,
said she is proud of the involvement of both Kimberley and Cranbrook. “The most important thing about both towns is that the citizens are so committed and so helpful and compassionate towards helping refugees and they have been for 30 years and they continue to be,” Jimenez said. Hay Tha Htoo, Hay Tha Sher, Hser Bri and Ku Gay also met with the Mayor at Lindsay Park Elementary, with one of the school’s classrooms. They are members of a refugee family that came from Burma with the help East Kootenay Friends of Burma. Kaity Brown photo Shauna Jimenez cleared up some of the Mayor Ron McRae joined the Friends of Burma Shauna Jimenez and Lindsay Park students, including children from refugee confusion around immi- families to state that Kimberley is proud to protect refugees. grants and refugees. She explained that what we can in Kimber- that the difference is that im- tries for any reasons from as refugees are people their country of origin. population,” “So Friends of Burma ley and Cranbrook for Jimenez said. migrants are people who being with their family or who could be persecute choose to move coun- financial reasons where- or killed if they stay in will keep trying to do our small percentage of See Page 5
Serving the community; one bowl at a time Kimberley’s Baptist Church inspired to create a soup kitchen by a hungry traveler By Kaity Brown Bulletin staff
Kimberley’s Baptist Church is hosting a soup kitchen every Saturday from 11 to 3 p.m. for anyone to come and have homemade soup. The soup kitchen program has been going since January 19, 2013 and has yielded steady success — with a handful of
regulars as well as some newbies here and there. “Anyone is welcome to come and eat some soup. Not just those who need it,” said Dave Stephanek, one of the founders of the soup kitchen program. Stephanek said there is no one man behind it. Drew Westergaard, the Pastor for the church, Nick Turner and Harry Mackenzie are also helped make the soup kitchen idea a reality. However, almost everyone at the church is involved with the program, switching out times at the kitchen and volunteering their time to provide soup for
the less fortunate. “If anyone is behind it, that’s God,” Stephanek said. The inspiration for the soup kitchen came from an unlikely place. Pastor Westergaard said that a homeless man and traveler named David knocked on the door of the church on a couple of occasions asking for something to eat. The pastor gave him what he needed and yet David was the type that didn’t like to stay put, and so off he would go, back to travel between towns. See Page 3
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Harry Mackenzie, one of the volunteer cooks.
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