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ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH 21 HAD TO CLOSE LOUNGE BECAUSE IT WAS ‘BLEEDING MONEY’ SAYS REGIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DA N F E R G US ON Time s Re po rte r
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Twin sisters Sahara (left) and Zohal Jaghori, 6, from Langley, work on pirate-related crafts the Surrey Museum during International Talk Like a Pirate Day on Sept. 19.
The Langley branch of the Royal Canadian Legion has closed the second-floor lounge it operates at 20570 56 Ave. The decision was made at a Saturday, Sept. 19 meeting, and took effect the next day. Employees have been laid off and the branch is looking for office space to operate its annual poppy campaign and provide space for a local service officer. “It is with sadness that we have to announce that the Langley Legion will be closing its doors,” said an online statement by David Brocklehurst, Branch 21 First Vice President.
The message posted at langleylegion.com said the legion will continue operating as a service branch. Brocklehurst said this year’s poppy campaign will go ahead as planned and so will the Remembrance Day parade. A Branch 21 membership meeting has been scheduled for Monday Sept. 28. Inga Kruse, executive director of the Legion’s B.C./ Yukon Command, called the shutdown a “tragedy.” “It’s a terrible, terrible thing.” The Langley City branch will keep its Legion charter, Kruse said. Continued Page 3
FHA failing teens with psychiatric issues – mother MO N I Q U E TA M M I N G A Ti me s Re po r t e r
Hospitals across the region are seeing a significant increase in the number of youth in need of psychiatric services, says Fraser Health Authority CEO Michael Marchbank.
It’s an area of health care that needs to be examined, said Marchbank, speaking at the Fraser Health board meeting held in Langley on Wednesday. Marchbank was responding to the comments of a mother who expressed her frustration with
the lack of psychiatric services available — services her daughter desperately needs but isn’t getting. The board meeting, held at Cascades Casino and conference centre, was open to the public and included a question period.
Abbotsford mom Jackie Gettings asked why teens with psychiatric problems, including her daughter, are not being helped and are instead being released even though they are often a risk to themselves. The B.C. Coroner Service is
planning an inquest into the suicides of three young people who took their lives after being released from the mental health unit at Abbotsford Hospital. The system is failing kids across the region, said Gettings. Continued Page 3
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