Posted: Feb 22, 2021 5:00 AM MT | Last Updated: February 22
Raksh Joshi, president of the Hindu Society of Calgary, discovered that the management of his own temple was behind a mini food bank and library being cut down in the middle of the night. (Dan McGarvey/CBC)
Posted: Feb 17, 2021 2:43 PM MT | Last Updated: February 18
After finding the food bank and library box cut down, Raksh Joshi, president of the Hindu Society of Calgary, said: It feels so sad. I m sick from my stomach. (Dan McGarvey/CBC)
A food bank and little free library outside a Hindu temple in northeast Calgary that was meant to help people struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic has been sawed down but there s confusion over whether it was vandalism or a deliberate move by temple management.
Raksh Joshi, president of the Hindu Society of Calgary, told CBC News on Wednesday that the supporting legs of the wooden boxes for the food bank and free library were cut off and the structures left pushed over on the snow outside the temple, which stands in an industrial area in Vista Heights.