Nanaimo free dinner program dismantled after eviction saga
NANAIMO — The dream of offering free hot meals to Nanaimo’s most vulnerable from an ideal south-end location has come to an end.
The locks were changed and tent ceilings taken down at 150 Nicol St. on Monday morning after a bitter fight over building permits and evictions.
Stone Soup organizers Tanya and Doug Hiltz were surrounded by friends and neighbours as court-ordered movers arrived around 9 a.m. Monday to dismantle everything and place it in storage.