Rally hopes to build enough support to save endangered free meal program
NANAIMO — Ardent supporters of a hot meal program in Nanaimo braved pounding rain to take their request for cooperation and salvation right to Nanaimo City Hall.
Roughly a dozen supporters of the Stone Soup program marched from 150 Nicol St., where the program is located in the backyard of a house, to City Hall on Friday, April 5.
They alleged the City isn’t cooperating with Stone Soup organizers to move beyond building code infractions which threaten to shut down the program.
“We’re only here to feed the people,” organizer Tanya Hiltz told NanaimoNewsNOW. “We don’t care about fighting with (the City), we just want to feed the people. That’s the whole name of the game we started a year ago.”