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Working through the North Vancouver Island Aboriginal Training Society, Doug Johns and Erick Martin (front and centre) help renovate Campbell River’s extreme weather shelter which Paul Mason (back) of Campbell River Family Services announced has been bought by his organization – for $1 – and is launching a new program to fund its operation. AlistAir tAylor/CAmpbell river mirror
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ampbell River’s innovative extreme-weather shelter is getting noticed as an innovative and effective way to
serve the community’s homeless population. And now, Campbell River Family Services (CRFS) has hit on an innovative way to fund the operation of the moveable shelter which it now owns after buying it for a
dollar from the company that built it. Paul Mason of CRFS fields calls from all over North America about the converted shipping container which has proven to be a success in providing a safe haven
for the community’s street people during bad weather. “In the last two years in Campbell River, nobody has died on the streets,” Mason said. This is an accomplishment and
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Canada Post’s plan to halt the replacement of door-to-door delivery with community mailboxes will not affect Campbell River – at least not for now. Monica Judd, president of the Campbell River Local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, said there are about 1,000 addresses in Campbell River that still don’t have a community mailbox. Despite the new developments, Judd said those homes will still be losing door-todoor delivery. “Canada Post is saying it’s business as usual and they’ll still be putting those boxes in,” Judd said. “We’re being told probably not until Christmastime because the contractor had to move to Sidney, near Victoria, which went live with the community mailboxes on Oct. 26.” That same day, Canada Post
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