Parksville is a very small community, so there is a great collaboration piece there that we actually don't see as much in Nanaimo, because it's a bigger centre. Many organizations stepped up. We did a big fundraiser, with people walking on the coldest night of the year in a cross-country event. The SOS is another organization in town. So many helped and pitched in, and we paid for what we could to ensure that these clients.... Island Health actually was able to provide some of the funding.
We really just work together, because as you can imagine, to have had to evict the five people whom we had just housed would have been just terrible. We were fortunate, and those subsidies are still going, but it's very piecemeal, and that's not a good way to live.