Are you a senior and need legal advice?
On the third Tuesday of every month until Dec. 19, there’s a seniors’ legal advice clinic at Brentwood Community Resource Centre.
A lawyer with the B.C. Centre for Elder Advocacy and Support provides expertise on issues such as wills and estates; advance planning documents (power of attorney, representation agreements, advance directives); small claims court; complaints against professionals; and elder abuse and financial exploitation.
The resource centre is at 2055 Rosser Ave. The clinic runs from 2 to 4 p.m.
Donations pour in
Some 120 people came out to support Burnaby Family Life during a September fundraiser.
Just over $1,000 was raised at Buy-Low Foods on Broadway. The service provider held a community barbecue that included a host of activities for the entire family. Food and fun was by donation.
“We had a great turnout for the event,” Katherine Pui, fund development coordinator, wrote in an email to the NOW.
About 120 folks showed up.
The funds go toward the organization’s counselling programs for children and women who experience abuse.
Saving the salmon
A Burnaby school project was the recipient of a $7,000 grant from the Pacific Salmon Foundation recently.
Taylor Park Elementary School received the money in support of their Stream of Dreams initiative, a whole school eco-education program that educates communities about their local watershed, rivers and streams.
“The program encourages behavioural change to conserve and protect water, empowers youth to make a positive environmental impact, and creates a community art legacy,” according to a press release.
The Pacific Salmon Foundation was established in 1987 as an independent, non-governmental, charitable organization to help protect, conserve and rebuild pacific salmon populations in British Columbia and the Yukon.
World Vision abroad
Burnaby resident Cindy Cook-Leamen travelled to Tanzania in September as part of a sponsorship ambassador program with World Vision.
The two-week trip allowed her to see the work World Vision does on a day-to-day basis. She met bee keepers and visited farms and schools.
It’s not the first time Cook-Leamen has gone across the globe with the organization; she’s also been to Peru to meet her sponsor child.
This summer, she and her granddaughter sold sarongs to fundraise for child and maternal health initiatives.
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