LETTER: Community support makes Langley City man’s care package project a success

Ron Bergen, who is legally blind, organized a project for Christmas 2022 to assemble care packages for people in the community. (Special to the Langley Advance Times)
A local man had hoped to assemble and distribute 100 kits but was able to do more than 120
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      LETTER: Community support makes Langley City man’s care package project a success

      A local man had hoped to assemble and distribute 100 kits but was able to do more than 120

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