Saved!
Thank goodness for anonymous corporate donors! One of those mysterious benefactors has come through in the clutch with the $500,000 needed to save the childhood home of Obasan author Joy Kogawa in Vancouver, the CBC is reporting. A number of groups led by The Land Conservancy of British Columbia had long been trying to raise the funds needed to buy the house and prevent it from being demolished to make way for condominiums. They had raised more than $200,000, but had fallen far short of the money needed to pay for Kogawa’s house. “The future of the historic Joy Kogawa House is now completely in our hands, and we are proud of what we were able to accomplish with such a short deadline,” TLC deputy executive director Ian Fawcett told the CBC.
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