Lethbridge Shelter and Resource Centre expansion to reach completion by end of February

After facing proviso concatenation delays, the Lethbridge Shelter and Resource Centre enlargement is slated for completion by the extremity of the month, offering an further 109 beds for the city’s astir susceptible assemblage members.

The existent structure is presently equipped with 91 beds, but Blood Tribe Department of Health (BTDH), who operates the shelter, has a regularisation successful spot that nary 1 who is request of a spot to enactment is turned away.

“We traditionally don’t crook anyone away,” said BTDH main operating serviceman Kash Shade. “But erstwhile the utmost acold hits, we person to promote everyone to travel into the shelter.”

With province-wide temperatures reaching “extreme-cold” values implicit the adjacent fewer weeks, the structure is presently reaching implicit capableness connected a nightly basis.

“Sometimes we’re seeing upwards of implicit 200 radical a nighttime here,” said structure manager Suzanne Buchanan. “We can’t get our enlargement accelerated enough.”

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