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JANUARY 16
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2020
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Pot Moody? Not quite yet + Cops team up with student artists to solve cold cases + What’s up with that Anmore bear cub?
WINTER WONDERLAND
HOMELESS PEOPLE
Cold hits Tri-Cities’ homeless hardest Shelters available but not all homeless people are in them GARY MCKENNA gmckenna@tricitynews.com
Walkers head into a snowy vista traversing the pedestrian bridge across the Coquitlam River in Port Coquitlam. Sunday’s major snowfall was surpassed overnight Wednesday with a massive dump of the white stuff — more than 30 cm in some areas — that closed Tri-City schools and kept many at home. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
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For the average Tri-City resident, winter weather usually means a slower commute and a few minutes outside shovelling the driveway. But for people struggling without housing, the freezing temperatures currently gripping the region are dangerous, increasing the chances of severe injury — even death — according to Andrea Corrigan. The executive director of the Hope for Freedom Society, which coordinates the bridge shelter in the Tri-Cities, said her organization is seeing more people in desperate need for a place to warm up.
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“They are definitely chilly when they come in,” she said. But mat programs like the bridge shelter are only available during the overnight hours. With temperatures consistently below freezing throughout the day, Corrigan said there is a need for warming shelters during the daytime to give homeless people respite from the cold. “We see first-hand the struggles of our neighbours without homes to stay warm and dry, and have somewhere safe to do so,” she said. Since the snow began to fall on the weekend, the bridge shelter has hosted an average of 14 to 17 people a night. Another 13 to 14 are using mats provided by Trinity United Church in Port Coquitlam, whose shelter is activated during extreme weather events. SEE
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