Starlee Speers - Vernon 105.7 SUNFM:
Vernon's Upper Room Mission has become increasingly busier in the economic downturn according to it's executive director. Chuck Harper says the Mission serves about two hundred meals a day, seven days a week. He's not sure where everyone is coming from but has heard that the homeless population is being driven out of Vancouver in preparation for the 2010 Olympics. Harper says the Mission is also seeing more of the working poor, people unable to stretch their pay cheques to cover the cost of food.
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