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Loggers sports thrills the crowd Campbell River’s Dave MacLeod was on top of the world in his opening skit for a loggers sport exhibition put on at Transfer Beach Sept. 6. From 4 to 6 p.m. teams squared off sawing, chopping and jawing their ways through a series of skill testing events. More in next week’s Chronicle. Sunday’s action was in support of Camp Good Times and the Tour de Rock annual fund-raiser to fight cancer. Griffyn Dmytar and mom Cpl. Cari Lougheed joined Cst. Mihai Ilioi raising spirits and awarness for the annual RCMP Island cycling tour. Craig Spence
Group raising funds and awareness about Syrian refugees Sponsorship drive planned to bring a second Syrian family to Nanaimo by Craig Spence the chronicle
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Kathy and John Potts are helping organize a drive to bring a family from war ravaged Syria to Nanaimo. On the screen is a picture of two families, already living in Canada thanks to fund-raising drives.
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A ‘small group of people’ in Ladysmith, Chemainus and Cedar is determined to do more than watch helplessly as Syrians, fleeing a country ravaged by war, risk their lives to get into Europe, many of them wanting to immigrate to Canada. The locals want to sponsor a refugee family’s immigration into this country via Nanaimo. “Fund raising has begun,” said Kathy Potts in a letter to the Chronicle Sept. 6. Noting that the group raised $30,000 in 2011 to bring a young family to Nanaimo, Potts said a group has gathered ‘to do it again.’ She noted that the first family
is doing well. “They have since moved to Burnaby, where they have re-united with extended family,” she reported. “The father supports his growing family through barbering, the trade he practised in Syria.” That first successful relocation of a Syrian family has inspired people in the group to try again. They have been made aware of a particular family in need through the family sponsored to come here in 2011. “If we can raise enough to bring this family, they will have strong support from their relatives in Nanaimo,” Potts said. “Please join us in bringing another family to safety and a new life.” Pledges are being sought to start with, while the group sets up to accept donations. To make
a pledge, or find out more, email jdpotts1@telus.net or phone 250245-0634. Canadians coast to coast are urging the federal government to do more to help the Syrian refugees, who are swarming into Europe from the Middle East. Protesters in Victoria gathered Saturday, Sept. 5, to demand that Canada allow more Syrian refugees into Canada. The protest was one of several across the country and many around the world, that were triggered by a picture of a threeyear-old Syrian child Alan Kurdi, whose lifeless body was recovered on a Turkish beach, after he, his brother and mother drowned in an attempted crossing from Turkey into Greece. See Page 4, Refugees
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