Posted: Jun 03, 2021 11:03 AM CT | Last Updated: June 3
Picnic tables and portable toilets were set up in the parking lot next to Aspen Apartments on 51st Street after the temporary day shelter in downtown Yellowknife closed on Monday. (Sidney Cohen/CBC )
Some canopy tents and picnic tables in a parking lot.
This is how the Northwest Territories government is filling the gap after the temporary day shelter at Yellowknife s Mine Safety Building closed on Monday.
People can visit the encampment beside the vacant Aspen Apartments on 51st Street to grab a bite to eat, store their belongings, and use the portable toilets, but they can t nap comfortably or do laundry inside the building.
Yellowknife group hands out hundreds of Christmas presents to families in need
An epic bottle drive last month provided the funding for more than $6,000 in toys, books, sports equipment and other presents being handed out for free.
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Posted: Dec 19, 2020 12:44 PM CT | Last Updated: December 19, 2020
Stuffed animals are piled high on a table while volunteers wrap gifts in the background at the Crazy Indian Brotherhood toy drive in Yellowknife. The event at the Tree of Peace Friendship Centre is the first for the organization s Yellowknife chapter. (John Last/CBC)
Inside Yellowknife s Tree of Peace Friendship Centre on a dark winter morning, a dozen volunteers prep tables heaped high with teddy bears, remote control cars and Barbie dolls.