Comox Valley community updates: April 25, 2024
On April 8, Yummies & Gyros announced a ‘pay-it-forward’ lunch program for residents who can’t afford lunch. That same cafe had their safe broken into on April 14, and is hoping to recover from the losses via a GoFundMe campaign.
“We do not have corporate money like many of the larger franchises that we have to compete with so every dollar matters,” wrote the restaurant’s owner Katherine Kirk.
“If everyone in the valley just donated $10.00 then I could come up from this feeling of drowning,” she said.
Those who would like to donate can click here.
Brandi Schier, Publisher and CEO of Discourse Community Publishing, and Eden Fineday, Publisher of Indiginews, spoke at the DemocracyXChange summit on April 12, 2024 about the need for local independent news. If you’d like to listen to them chat, alongside Erin Millar, co-founder of The Discourse and Indiegraf, and Amanda Roth from the Logic. Check it out here, at the 2:54:40 minute mark.
Madeline Dunnett, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Discourse
