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L’Arche drive en route Campaign to raise funds for second home 40 per cent toward target
Renee Andor Record Staff
Scott Stanfield Record Staff
L’Arche Comox Valley has nearly reached the 40-per-cent mark of its public fundraising campaign, launched Friday at the Prime Chophouse in Courtenay. Individual donors have committed $300,000 towards the campaign target of $800,000, which will be used to construct L’ARCHE COMOX VALLEY board chair Tony Reynolds displays promotional literature for a a second home in the city for fundraising campaign. PHOTO BY SCOTT STANFIELD L’Arche clients. The entire project will cost are developmentally disabled tance who became a minister tion, Jangula had been conan estimated $1.4 million. The but who can live semi-indepen- because of his experience volun- vinced to join the L’Arche board. The late Mawhinney initiated balance can be covered through dently. Clients and workers will teering for L’Arche while attenda mortgage. The hope is to break co-habitate in a family-like set- ing university. The man later the charity in 2000 when he and started a L’Arche community in other volunteers opened Jubilee ground early in 2015, with occu- ting. Campaign co-chair Robert New Brunswick. House in Courtenay. pancy about a year later. Comox Valley “My thanks to all of you who The house will be located at Mulrooney anticiMLA Don McRae have stayed the course, have 1465 Grieve Ave. by Courtenay pates the facility I think that and Courtenay kept the vision alive and brought Elementary School. Board mem- will be a “commubers and staff have received nity asset.” speaks to the qual- Mayor Larry Jan- us to today,” Jangula said. “I’m The non-profit also shared a proud to have been a small part positive feedback from neighity of this commu- gula charity is one of 29 few words Friday. of ensuring Lock’s legacy is perbouring property owners. “Many hours put petuated.” “We believe that this will be a L’Arche communi- nity. We look after in by many dedicatL’Arche also operates an outwonderful addition to the neigh- ties in Canada, and our own. ed volunteers have reach centre in downtown Courbourhood,” I Belong Campaign one of only two in Paul Helpard brought us to this tenay, which will shut down honorary chair Murray Presley B.C. “I think that point today,” said when the new house is built. said Friday. Campaign contributions are The 8,200-square-foot, two- speaks to the quality of this com- Jangula, recalling a conversastorey house will double as an munity. We look after our own,” tion with L’Arche Comox Valley tax deductible. To donate, visit www.larchecomoxvalley.org. activity centre. There will be liv- said campaign co-chair Dr. Paul founder Lock Mawhinney. reporter@comoxvalleyrecord.com By the end of the conversaing spaces for nine clients who Helpard, recalling an acquain-
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Violence against women is a men’s issue and the onus falls on men to stop it from happening, according to Dr. Jackson Katz. Katz is a leading North American gender violence educator. A large part of his work focuses on trying to shift society’s thinking about gender violence — which includes sexual assault, relationship abuse and sexual harassment. “People tend to think of (forms of gender violence) as women’s issues that some ‘good men’ help out with,” says Katz. “By framing sexual assault and domestic violence women’s issues it puts the onus of responsibility on women, and yet the ones who are committing the vast majority of the abuse and the violence are men and male-dominated systems. “Calling it a women’s issue has the effect of shifting the onus of responsibility off the shoulders of men, especially powerful men, and putting it onto the shoulders of women, and this is not fair — it just reproduces the same unequal, unfair system.” “The only way we are going to really have dramatic change in the levels of gender violence in the world … is if we understand that this violence is rooted in cultural ideologies of manhood and ... see WITHOUT ■ 2
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