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Thrift and Give Back: A Win Win in Winnipeg.
Charmaine Jennings’ love for thrifting lead her to become a content creator in partnership with The Salvation Army Thrift Store. She is also the founder of a women’s entrepreneurial support community in Winnipeg called Hustle + Charm. Recently her community came together for a thrift party at the largest Salvation Army Thrift Store in Winnipeg,…
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Winnipeg Day Camp Helps Kids Shine
Children laughing and playing, making new friends, and learning new stories, spending their days active and engaged: this is what Kids Kamp at Heritage Park Temple (HPT) in Winnipeg offers for six weeks each summer. Summer day camp has been offered at Heritage Park for 15 years and is one of the programs made possible…
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Welcoming Community with Traditional Art
The pillars flanking the doors to the chapel at Winnipeg’s Weetamah Corps welcome visitors with bright new images depicting the Seven Sacred Teachings. Seven colourful animals are accompanied by traditional woodland-style motifs reaching to the ceiling and freshly painted walls with pictures of a thunderbird and a teepee. The sanctuary is the heart of the…
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Busting Myths About Homelessness Part 1
In early March, CBC Manitoba Information Radio spent the morning broadcasting live from The Salvation Army Winnipeg Centre of Hope. Host Marcy Markusa and producer Cory Funk talked with clients and staff to get a sense of the reality of shelter life and uncover and dispel commonly held myths about the people who rely on…
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Community Venture Members Revive Annual Play
This summer, members of The Salvation Army’s Community Venture (CV) put on a play for an audience of over 100. The 45-minute production was fully cast by members of the service, and they also had a hand in decorating posters and sets. The play was a return to an annual tradition and received a standing…
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Celebrating Seniors at the Barbara Mitchell Family Resource Centre in Winnipeg
In March, Clement Manaigre celebrated his birthday in a gym full of his peers and friends. The group enjoyed a buffet lunch of perogies, cabbage rolls, meatballs, veggies and coleslaw, topped off with a huge sheet cake. There was even live music performed by the corps officers from Living Hope Community Church. The celebration was…
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Students Dedicate Spring Break to the Service of Others
In March, 12 high school students from Emmanuel Evangelical Free Church in Steinbach, Manitoba, gave up their spring break to serve others by volunteering at The Salvation Army’s Barbara Mitchell Family Resource Centre and Community Venture in Winnipeg. The youths worked with seniors’ groups, babies and new mothers, children, and individuals with disabilities as part…
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For The Love of Giving – Monica and Toy Mountain
In her own words, Monica Smith is a little old lady who hangs out in a shop. She is the owner of Aunt Monica’s Attic in the Transcona neighbourhood of northeast Winnipeg. She is a year-round supporter of Toy Mountain. “I never know really know how to describe the store because I think it’s a…
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For The Love of Giving – Jenna and The Winnipeg Centre of Hope
Jenna Burgoing is a graphic design student at CDI College in Winnipeg. Around Giving Tuesday this past November, CDI College hosted a contest for students called CDI is Kind. Participating students had a bingo card with examples of acts of kindness. They were asked to share pictures and post them on social media with the…
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Jeri’s Story of Hope
Your donation gives places like The Center of Hope in Winnipeg the ability to provide a warm place to sleep, showers, laundry, and access to other supports for unsheltered people. Jeri was diagnosed with a mental illness in his teens and received short-term care at The Centre of Hope which housed a crisis stabilization unit.…
