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Your Week Weekly k l y CClover l o ver Valley Newspaper December 23, 2015 ❖ www.CloverdaleReporter.com ❖
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Former foster kids in Surrey face a lonely Christmas By Jennifer Lang kids after they age out,” she says. “Sometimes situations are negoFor former foster kids who have tiable with foster parents,” she says. left government care, the holidays “Sometimes, they accommodate a can be a lonely, dark time. youth if they are going to school.” As they “age out” of the system at The society is asking people to 19, many find themselves give gift cards and and unable to afford the essendonations in an annual tials, like food and shelter. Last year, the Christmas appeal in Lacking the kind of supcommunity support of at-risk youth port a loving, stable family provides, they don’t necdonated $7,500 in in the transition to adulthood program. essarily have the basic life gift cards. Last year, the commuskills that other kids their nity responded generousage do – such as opening ly, donating $7,500 in gift a bank account, signing cards that were given to former foster up for school, making it through a successful interview, or finding a safe children in Surrey, helping them to buy food, warm winter clothing place to live. and bus fare – along with sending a At 19, they’re considered adults, message of hope. expected to be living independently Alan, a former foster child, was and fending for themselves, explains headed down a lonely, self-destrucKisti Singh of SOS Children’s Village BC. See FOSTER PLACEMENTS/ Page 6 “There is no funding in place for
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Who says kids today don’t read newspapers? A musical about the flagging fortunes of a paper – in search of a scoop that just might be the Greatest Story Ever Told – was the centrepiece of this year’s Christmas concert at Cloverdale Catholic School, where students (like these girls pictured above) got a chance to shine last week. All 312 students were involved in ‘The Christmas Chronicles’, presented Dec. 15 along with music and choral performances.
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For instance, Save-on-Foods Walnut Grove donated vegetables that would have otherwise gone to waste because they were deemed too imperfect – ugly – to sell. “Using the ugly food is new this year and really a great teaching moment for the cadets that relates to today, as well as See CANADIANS / Page 3
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CI Dawn Royle clears dishes as Seaforth Cadets take part in the annual Ortona Dinner in Cloverdale.
By Jennifer Lang The 2277 Seaforth Highlanders Army Cadets Corps. dined on scrounged, “ugly” food at their annual Ortona Dinner in Cloverdale earlier this month – but it was all part of the experience. Each December, the corps re-enacts the famous Seaforth Regiment Christmas