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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Local homeless count soars By JOSH MASSEY A FIRST-EVER count of the homeless that took place here last week revealed at least 50 people have no place to live save for under porches, dumpsters, bank entrances and the outdoors. Terrace and District Community Services Society (TDCSS) worker Casey Eys, who organized the count, said the number was dramatically higher than unofficial tallies he’s been keeping over the past several years. “When I first started, you could count 15 to 18,” said Eys. “Before there were less transients.” Eys, another person from TDCSS, and four Northwest Community College social work students, spent part of two days finding and interviewing people, even offering a free pair of socks on one of the rainy days as incentive for people to answer a questionnaire. The count was part of ongoing efforts to determine the city’s housing policy priorities. It cost the city $2,500. The group combed Ksan Society shelters, the weekday soup kitchen at the All Nations Centre on Sparks and ravines and thickets that wind through the area. When asked where they had spent the night before, some of those surveyed listed flophouses which charge a fee and apartments where five sleep on the floor in addition to regular shelters. Because a significant number of people live in precarious, unpredictable situations such as couch
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VOLUNTEERS SUZI Annala-Macdonald, left, and Julie Mahil took part in the city’s first-ever homeless count April 22-23.
surfing or extended stays at relatives, defining who is homeless for the purpose of the survey was important and counting them an im-
perfect science. “Anyone who doesn’t have control over their tenure is homeless because they have no legal security
to be there,” said Eys. A breakdown according to age, gender and ethnicity was not immediately available following the
two-day count, which took place April 22-23.
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Brewery tapped to open this year By ANNA KILLEN A SMALL craft brewery, a first for Terrace, is set to open for sampling soon with full-scale sales to start in late fall. Sherwood Mountain Brewery, owned by Darryl Tucker and Linda Parker, is located in the former Out Spoke’n Bike & Sport location on Hwy16 West and the pair have spent the last while getting the pa-
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perwork and supplies in order to begin production. Tucker, a former marketing director with Hawkair and who was also involved with the local effort to purchase Shames Mountain and convert it into a co-op, said the move offers him a chance to combine two loves – beer and promotions. “I really enjoy beer, it was something I could sell and love,
and to learn a new skill and become a brewmaster, so to speak, it was like, this all fit,” he said last week. Tucker’s first stop in the brewery world was with the Skeena Brewing Company, a local group planning to open a brewpub on one corner of the city-owned former Co-op property. But he then decided on a separate venture, a move that took him to a brewing school
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in Berlin, Germany for six months to become a certified brewmaster. “It was really a good experience,” he said of his experience at the Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei in Berlin. “For me to go to school over there, but the other half of it was to live in Berlin for six months.” He bookended his Berlin trip with stints in Ontario, where his family lives, and worked at the
Lake of Bays Brewing Company, where he began to make contacts in the industry and put his schooling into practice before returning to Terrace late last year. Once equipment and tanks are fully installed, Tucker and Parker will produce 80,000 litres of beer in the first year of operation plans to expand to 200,000 litres a year.
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