Tyler Cameron, the General Manager of the Acadia Northwest Mechanical store in Terrace recently made a pair of $5,000 donations, the first of which was to the Red Road Recovery North treatment centre located near Kitwanga, and the second was sent to the new 19 and up men’s sober living house in Terrace.
Cameron mentioned that his reasoning for making such generous donations had to do with his own past experiences;
“I’m in recovery myself and when I was younger, there was none of these services available in the north. It was all down in the lower mainland, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Kelowna, so for us to have these facilities available in the north is huge.”
Cameron also recently met up with members of the Together We Can Drug & Alcohol Recovery & Education Society and the school district in order to facilitate the creation of more spaces like this for even younger people as well;
“We are pushing hard to open up housing and services for the youth in Terrace. They have a lot of youth services for counselling and addiction, but one thing they do not have is housing. So in the future, we are trying to push hard in our community to open up youth housing as well.”
Cameron credited Skeena MLA Claire Rattée for helping organize the meet-up between the parties.
And he spoke of plans for another sober living house to be set up in Terrace in the near future, albeit for the opposite gender this time;
“By January of 2026, there will be a 19 plus women’s sober living housing open in Terrace as well.”
Cameron expressed that the parties will continue to work together in the future and their hope is to get the community involved by asking for donations of items like furniture, kitchen appliances, clothing and cleaning supplies.
Cameron last said that he will also continue to make donations of his own in the future.