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La Ronge explores options to get homeless shelter up and running again
The Town of La Ronge is scrambling to find options for an emergency homeless shelter after a local agency said it will no longer be providing the service.
In a letter to council earlier this month, the Kikinahk Friendship Centre says it will not be offering an overnight homeless shelter this winter due to insufficient funding.
The shelter service had been intermittently offered by Kikinahk’s Scattered Site Outreach program in the past.
La Ronge Mayor Colin Ratushniak said now is the time to find a solution to the dilemma before the colder weather sets in.
Shannon Metivier knows her new job will present some enormous challenges, but she prefers to think of them as opportunities.
Metivier is the new chief judge of the Provincial Court of Saskatchewan, which handles most of the criminal charges laid in the province and other matters such as bylaws, traffic court and small claims.
Justice Minister Gord Wyant appointed her to the role last year, and Metivier formally took the helm in March, almost exactly eight years after first donning the black robes with blue facings worn by provincial court judges.
In her new role, the former civil litigator plans to continue hearing cases while at the same time administering a court consisting of more than 50 judges, 13 permanent locations and 61 “circuit points” in small communities.
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