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By Jill Sperling

Mobile Kitchen Relocation

Salvation Army’s Mobile Kitchen moves to North Shore

Apr 25, 2019 | 5:03 PM

KAMLOOPS — Due to the reconstruction of West Victoria Street, the Salvation Army has moved its Community Response Unit from the South Shore to the North Shore.

Every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., the Salvation Army deploys a Mobile Kitchen to serve food to the city’s homeless and low income populations.

For many years, the unit was set up near the old Kamloops Daily News building, but in the fall it moved to 48 West Victoria Street.

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“A couple months prior to the construction starting, we worked really hard to try and secure an area where we could continue our feeding on the South Shore, but we were unable to do that so we decided we needed to move to the North Shore,” said Director of Community and Family Services, Tracey Thacker.

The service has moved to the IDA parking lot beside the Salvation Army Thrift Store on Tranquille Rd.

The Salvation Army is hoping the people most in need of the service will be able to access it.

“The clientele will obviously change,” said Major Paul Trickett with the Salvation Army, “but what we did see was the transitioning on the South Shore from our original location, we had seniors coming, people that were disabled in different ways, and they weren’t able to get to our newest location on the South Shore, so hopefully on the North Shore they will be able to re-access service from us.”