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And now the sorting begins... After the donation deluge, it’s time to prepare food hampers donations of food, gift items, toys and By Jennifer Lang Thanks to steady support from the cash as hampers for families and indicommunity, the Cloverdale Christmas viduals in the Cloverdale area. Tomorrow recipients come to the Hamper Program is on target to meet warehouse at Pacific Community this year’s demand. “We have 240 applications this year,” Church to pick up hampers filled with program lead Scott Napier said earlier fresh vegetables and fruit, a turkey or a ham, plus canned goods this week, as an army of like tuna, peanut butter volunteers worked to sort and assemble food ham- “It’s been a whole and kitchen staples like flour and sugar. pers in time for tomorThe hampers contain day of this...” row’s pick up deadline. a lot more than just a As the number of appliChristmas supcants climbs support from - Nalin Dhillon day’s plies – many items last volunteers and donors has weeks. Some contain also kept pace. toys and gifts for families The initiative runs through the combined efforts of a with children or teenagers. Clothing, whole host of local individuals and food gift certificates and personal care items are included as well. groups. “The food drive seems to be going Local churches, three high schools – Fleetwood Secondary, Clayton really well this year,” he said, adding Heights and Lord Tweedsmuir Sec- volunteer inquiries and cash donaondary – five elementary schools, plus tions were also steady. Napier says there’s always a tremenmany businesses and organizations all dous response from local schools, work together. The program collects and distrib- particularly Clayton Heights SecondSee CLASSES / Page 2 utes tens of thousands of dollars in
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Work party: members of Clayton Heights Secondary’s student council sorted thousands of donations on Tuesday.
More money for horse racing Victoria increases its financial support and sets it at a fixed amount to provide stability to the industry
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Standardbred horses fly along the track at Fraser Downs.
By Jeff Nagel The province is injecting more gambling profits back into B.C.’s horse racing industry. Victoria previously gave out allocations to support and help run both standardbred and thoroughbred racing based on a share of revenues generated. But with revenue dropping, the operating and aid dollars were also set to dwindle, so the province has instead increased its grant to a fixed amount of $10 million per year. The move will provide stability and certainty in terms of government support, according to a Dec. 10 letter from Derek
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