October 5th, 2011 marked the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Cedar Place Cèdre in Sudbury, Ontario. The shelter for women and families in crisis is housed in a 12 bedroom, 20 bed capacity home that provides sleeping accommodation, meals and support. Renovations, painting, and cleaning took place over the summer and were paid  […]

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Holocaust Survivor Tells His Story of Survival at The Salvation Army for Holocaust Education Week Toronto – On Sunday, November 6, 2011, The Salvation Army North Toronto Community Church at 10:30am will host Mr. Amek Adler, a holocaust survivor, who will be sharing his personal testimony of his trials, ordeal and eventual survival of the holocaust.  […]

The London Santa Shuffle is taking a new approach to benefit the area’s Christmas Hamper program this year. This year each participant will receive a Christmas stocking, courtesy of the local Walmart at the Argyle Mall Walmart store. In the stocking will be a shopping list with items carefully identified as the most needed at  […]

October 19, 2011 What are high school students in the city occupied with these days? Student’s Christmas Rush for Oodles and Oodles of Goodies, etc. (SCROOGE)! Youth For Christ (YFC), overseers of the Operation SCROOGE, hosted a kick-off luncheon for student and teacher campaign organizers from 12 different secondary schools in London. At the luncheon  […]

Strathroy Community and Family Services recently honoured two long standing volunteers with recognition certificates. Brothers Murray and Larry Johnson have been serving Strathroy for 20 years. Shown in the picture below are Murray and Larry with C&FS officers Majors Edward and Roxzena Hayden.

The Little Beaver Restaurant in Komoka has been providing a “Christmas” dinner and donating all the day’s sales to the Strathroy Salvation Army Family Services. For the past 10 years, not only has the restaurant offered this dinner as a means of raising funds, but the wait staff has also donated their tips throughout. Over  […]

The Strathroy Community and Family Services Food Bank recently received one ton of food along with 10 bushels of apples from the Farm Credit Canada Food Drive. Below, Ed and Kelly Johnson unload apples. The Salvation Army thanks Farm Credit Canada for the overwhelmingly generous donation.