The Yacht Club on Rivers Street will open Tuesday night (Image Credit: CFJC Today)

By Chad Klassen

WINTER SHELTERS

Yacht Club to open tonight as temporary winter shelter

Nov 8, 2022 | 12:06 PM

KAMLOOPS — The city’s two temporary shelters will both be open as of Tuesday night (Nov. 8), exactly a week after they were initially scheduled to open.

After the City of Kamloops announced on Monday evening the opening of 24 beds at the old Stuart Wood, it now says the Yacht Club will be ready to welcome up to 15 more people on Tuesday night with The Mustard Seed stepping up to operate the site.

“The Yacht Club will be open likely 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., and The Mustard Seed will be coordinating along with all the other service providers — CMHA, ASK, Interior Community Services — around making sure that folks can be transported to and from that shelter and that those outreach teams are reaching out to folks and picking them up and getting them to the two winter shelter sites,” said the city’s social, housing and community development manager Carmin Mazzotta.

The Yacht Club joins Stuart Wood, where Out of the Cold will operate the shelter seven days a week all winter. On Monday night, Stuart Wood slept 24 people and allowed another 24 street-affected people to warm up.

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“Out of the Cold, just incredible they were able to ramp up so quickly for this, so huge kudos to them,” noted Mazzotta. “Thanks to them, that many folks were able to come in out of the cold during this extreme weather event.”

All this week, there are also warming centres at the Crossroads Inn on Seymour Street, where 20 people were served during the first night on Monday, and Spero House on Tranquille that welcomed 26 people to warm up.