CMHA: now they're cookin'

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The Canadian Mental Health Association has a new stove, thanks to a donation from the Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameen.

“We were working with a 50-year-old stove that had broken knobs,” said Leah Schulting, executive director of the CMHA. “Staff and clients are so happy to have a brand new, fully operational, six-burner stove.”

The CMHA's Unity House serves healthy meals seven days a week to people living with mental illness, since good nutrition can help lead to good mental health. More than 10,000 meals were served by staff and volunteers last year. 

The new stove will allow CMHA to continue and grow the meals program.