Thorpe Recovery Centre and Residents in Recovery benefit from Alberta COVID-19 grant
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The Thorpe Recovery Centre and Residents in Recovery will be receiving some additional funding through Alberta’s Mental Health and Addiction COVID-19 Community Funding grant.
Residents in Recovery has been approved for $35,290 and Thorpe Recovery Centre for $64,141. The funding is part of the Alberta government’s $53 million COVID Mental Health Action Plan supporting mental wellness and addiction recovery in the province during and after the pandemic.
“Residents in Recovery provides judgement-free access to a safe, supportive, and therapeutic recovery environment,” says Vermilion-Lloydminster-Wainwright MLA Garth Rowswell. “This grant of over $35,000 from Alberta’s government supports their abstinence-based programs that put individuals on a journey towards self-discovery, motivation, and understanding of addiction.”
Insp. Brachmann provides year end update for Lloydminster RCMP
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With 2020 nearly over, the Officer in Charge of Lloydminster RCMP provided a look back on the crime trends in the city over the past year.
Inspector Lee Brachmann was invited to provide a year end update at this week’s Rotary Club meeting.
Brachmann says they are seeing success with their new strategy which focuses on reducing property crimes in the city. The crime reduction strategy focused on reducing property crime and drug and gang related offences with part of it involving taking a proactive approach to identify prolific offenders. He says property crime numbers are down 8 per cent overall year-to-date compared to 2019 and there has been an over 20 per cent reduction in vehicle theft.