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Every City Needs One
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We were thrilled to receive a grant from the City of Courtenay earlier this year that allowed us to do various maintenance projects at our four YANA apartments in Vancouver. Now all apartments have sofa beds in the living room, a new dining room table and chairs, new rugs, ottomans, curtains and well-functioning computers and wifi. We also added a beautiful reminder of home through local artwork by Tracy Kobus. “Every City Needs One” is a perfect addition to each apartment. The YANA apartments continue to be an important resource for Comox Valley families who need to stay in Vancouver while a child or pregnant mother has medical treatment.
Quality Foods continue to keep YANA in their hearts! We’re so grateful for their charity points program. Courtenay QF also recently provided Vanier students with the opportunity to bag groceries with donations to YANA. Thank you QF and thank you Grade 8 Vanier leadership students and their teacher, Tim Krutzmann!
Our sincere thanks to Vanier Interact Club who recently donated to YANA. It’s inspiring to see these young leaders making a difference in their community. We’re grateful!
Happy 5th birthday, Olive! We love your funny faces and your big heart.
Seeing youth contributing to their community means the world to us! A big shout-out to this year’s grad class at Mark Isfeld for their fundraising efforts and to Brenda Hunt for guiding their work.
We were thrilled to be part of School District 71’s Jamboree Trackmeet! Thank you to the elementary school principals who hosted a dunk tank for YANA. Some good, wet fun translated into support for YANA kids!
Our thanks to the Cumberland Seniors who donated to YANA in support of local families.
Faith celebrated her 8th birthday with a toonie party and YANA was fortunate to receive some of this birthday love. Thanks, Faith!
“In honour of our son’s 1st birthday we want to help others have a healthy 1st birthday, too.” Thank you to the Roman family for their donation and their beautiful intention.
Big thanks to YANA President, Kelly Rusk, and Vice President, Kate Berg! They recently gave a weekend of their time to travel to Vancouver and did all kinds of work in the YANA apartments in conjunction with a grant received from the City of Courtenay. Thanks for ensuring our apartments continue to be well-equipped and comfy for YANA families!
