Seniors may lose activity centre if city decides not to fund move

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Silver Threads is looking for a new home.

Victoria seniors are in danger of losing their downtown activity centre because a proposed move by Silver Threads to the CNIB building on Richmond Road has been deemed too expensive by city staff. The seniors’ organization maintains that not only are the costs reasonable but any additional expenditures should be covered under an agreement reached a decade ago when the city sold the seniors centre’s former Fisgard Street building to make way for the new Capital Regional District headquarters.

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Source: Times Colonist

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