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Basketball tournament
Summerland Secondary School hosted basketball teams from around the region in a recent tournament.
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Financial matters
The declining dollar will have an effect on businesses in the community.
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Procedure changes
Exploring heritage
An upcoming Heritage Day tour will uncover some of the history of downtown Summerland.
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A place for seniors
The Summerland Seniors’ Drop-in Centre has experienced a decline in its membership.
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John Arendt Summerland Review
Floyd Baptist works on the construction of a wall at the new Summerland Library building. The building, on Main Street at Kelly Avenue, will be more than double the size of the existing library on Wharton Street. Tango Management Group is the project manager for the construction project.
Refugees sponsored United Church raises funds to assist family of five from Syria John Arendt A Summerland church is sponsoring a refugee family as they relocate to Canada. The family of five are among 10,000 Syrian refugees the government of Canada is taking in over the next three years. “There are millions
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of people around the world displaced from their homes living in refugee camps, because of war and violence, political or social oppression,” said David Sparks, co-chair of Summerland United Church’s sponsorship committee. “We will enable one refugee family to escape the danger, uncertainty and fear and give them a safe home.” The family of two
parents, two teenage daughters and a nineyear-old son are from a region of Syria which has experienced some of the most intense fighting in that country’s civil war. To escape the fighting between rebels and government forces, the family fled to Jordan. The Canadian government has put them on a list of people approved to be resettled to Canada. Armand Houle,
minister of Summerland United Church, said the United Church of Canada
the Vietnamese boat people, Bosnian refugees, or people fleeing the violence and oppresin “We will enable one refu- sion s o m e gee family to escape the L a t i n Amerdanger, uncertainty and fear and give them a safe ic oc uan nhome.” t r i e s , David Sparks U n i t e d Church has a history of spon- congregations across soring and welcom- Canada have been in ing refugees. the forefront of spon“Whether it was soring and welcom-
ing newcomers to Canada,” he said. Sparks said the family is expected to arrive in Canada in two to three months, but the timeline could be as short as one month. At present, the church’s sponsorship committee is working to find rental accommodations in Summerland and finding someone in the area who speaks Arabic. See COSTS Page 3
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