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Melissa Warner and Rebecca Bodo (centre with daughter)

Single moms support one another

Single mothers face a range of challenges from financial to legal to emotional - but a local group has started meeting regularly to provide support and encourage these women.


 
Fire Chief Dan Copeland (left) and police Chief Jim Cessford (right)

Rotary to recognize deserving Delta youth

The Rotary clubs of Ladner, North Delta and Tsawwassen will recognize deserving Delta youth in fifth annual Delta Rotary Youth Awards this spring.


 

What's On

. A Seniors Helping Seniors meeting takes place at 9: 30 a.m. at the seniors centre, 12150 224th St.


 
Fire Chief Dan Copeland (left) and police Chief Jim Cessford (right)

Rotary clubs recognize deserving Delta youth with annual awards

The Rotary clubs of Ladner, North Delta and Tsawwassen will recognize deserving Delta youth in fifth annual Delta Rotary Youth Awards this spring.


 
Deltassist executive director Doug Sabourin

Federal budget brings surprise

Last month's federal budget brought a smile to local charities like Deltassist.


 

Envision is helping to keep food bank cupboards full

Envision Financial has launched The Full Cupboard, an innovative community program designed to raise food, funds and awareness for food banks, including the one in South Delta.


 

What's On

. Holy Wow Poets recital takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. at The ACT. The theme will be April Fool's Frolics.


 

Renos culminate in grand new dealership

I'm pretty excited to see all the construction that has been going on at 200th Street and the Langley Bypass, of late.


 
Mary Robson

Envision partners with food bank, long term

A new partnership with Envision Financial will help keep the Friends In Need Food Bank forefront in the community.


 

Credit union envisions Full Cupboard

Envision Financial has committed to provide $1 million over the next decade to 11 food banks in the province, including those in Abbotsford and Mission, through a campaign launched Thursday called The Full Cupboard.


 

Envision aims for 'Full Cupboard'

Envision Financial has launched a new, long-term initiative to support food banks in communities it serves.


 
Lynn Fripps Elementary

Entrepreneurship: Grade 6ers mean business

Close to 90 Grade 6 students from Lynn Fripps Elementary received a taste of entrepreneurial life when they took part in a six-week program facilitated by PowerPlay Young Entrepreneurs and Envision Financial.


 

Musicians wanted for coffee house concerts

Abbotsford Arts Council and Envision Financial are putting their lineup together for the 2013 Envision Coffee House Concert Series and Concerts in the Park, and they're accepting applications from musicians until Feb. 18.


 

Education awards from Envision

Envision Financial is offering $33,000 in education awards to secondary and post-secondary students throughout the province.


 

Two credit unions offer grads cash

Two local credit unions put $53,000 on the table this week aimed at helping secondary and post-secondary students seeking further education - and I'm hopeful some of that coin will be left here with deserving scholars in Langley. But to qualify, you have to apply, and the deadlines are looming.


 

Envision overwhelmed by response to Angel Tree program

For the third consecutive year, Envision Financial's Angel Tree program will be delivering Christmas joy to hundreds of local families.


 
The Angel Tree

Angel Tree gifts bring smiles to patients

The generosity of visitors to the Envision Financial Ridge Meadows branch shone through in a big way over the past few weeks.


 

'Angel Tree' helps 21 charities this season

Envision Financial's Angel Tree program was also a success in brightening the Christmases of many local people.


 

What's online?

You can make Christmas merrier for a child or senior in need by taking a paper angel from a tree at the Langley Advance office, or any Envision Financial branch.