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December 13, 2013
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Monica Lamb-Yorski Staff Writer Thanks to a generous donation from the John Gordon Autism Foundation of Vancouver the Cariboo Chilcotin Child Development Centre will build an autism centre in Williams Lake. The centre will be built by the next intake of Thompson Rivers Univer-
sity Residential Construction students through a partnership with the Williams Lake Construction Association, School District 27 and the CDC. “We have a second tier off the back lane of our centre where we’d like to create a house-like space that is custom designed to do the work that we already do with kids with autism,” CDC executive director Nancy Gale said Thursday.
Design for the facility would include a large living room, family room and a large commercial country kitchen. “Families could come to work with our staff and their autistic children,” Gale explained. Through a family connection, Cathie Durfeld from Community Living BC in Williams Lake, approached the John Gordon Autism
Foundation for funding. “They told me they wanted to put some money outside of Vancouver,” Durfeld said. Immediately Durfeld and Gale put their heads together, decided to “think big,” and asked for capital funding.
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