(Photo: Facebook)
Residents in Greater Moncton are being encouraged to bundle up and walk in support of homeless youth.
This is the eighth year for the Coldest Night of the Year event, for Youth Impact.
Associate Director Tracy Cormier says the walk will be held virtually due to the pandemic.
She adds your help is needed more than ever this year, “The pandemic certainly hasn’t slowed homelessness down and it is increasingly difficult during these times for the youth that they serve.”
Cormier says the number of youth they see is around the same, but the need for meals they are providing everyday has gone up, “There has been a huge increase in food need, at least double if not more. We are handing out bagged lunches everyday, and we are providing hot meals everyday. Before we only had the one hot meal a week.”
DeSoto Discusses Future Senior Property Tax Exemptions
DeSoto City Council Debates Senior Citizen Homestead Exemption Amounts
In the DeSoto City Council Workshop held Tuesday evening, Tracy Cormier presented information on the city Senior Citizen Homestead Exemption for DeSoto. It became a subject for discussion in that a decision on whether to change the amount of the exemption would need to be made by the first meeting this coming March.
In order to qualify under the current program one must:
You must be 65 years of age or older
You must own and reside in home Jan 1 and not have an exemption on any other property.