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Filipinos rally to aid homeland True picture still emerging; Feds to match donated funds
JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
The Filipino community on the North Shore is pulling together to offer comfort to those whose friends and family are still unaccounted for in the wake ofTyphoon Haiyan — and to raise money to help survivors. “Even as we speak, we have the leaders of the community making calls,” said Alvin Koh Relleve, president of the North Vancouver Filipino Community Centre.
Relleve said community leaders throughout Metro Vancouver met Sunday and launched a campaign aimed at raising as much money as possible for Canadian Red Cross’s typhoon relief fund by the end of this month. The Canadian government has said it will match funds donated to relief organizations specifically for typhoon relief by Dec. 9. Beyond the immediate need for aid, community leaders have been offering comfort to those whose loved ones are still unaccounted for in some of the worst-hit areas like Tacloban in the central Philippines. One woman has not been able to contact her parents in Tacloban, said Relleve. “I have friends there. See 9 million page 3
Veteran’s stolen medals returned BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
A West Vancouver veteran who had a lifetime’s worth of military and merit medals stolen last week, has now had them returned. Five days after they were stolen in a smashand-grab from Murray Newman’s Beacon Lane home, someone dropped
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the medals including two Second World War medals, the Canadian Centennial Medal, a Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal and the Order of Canada, into a Commercial Drive mailbox. A Canada Post employee found them and handed them over to a local community policing station. See Medals’ page 12
LEST WE FORGET Legion Branch 118 service officer and veteran George Frederick stands with comrades at North Vancouver’s Victoria Park Remembrance Day ceremony Monday. Scan with the Layar app to see more photos as well as photos of the West Vancouver ceremony. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD
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