Single parents organization reaches out to cover costs

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  SPAN executive director Yvette Walton with some of the prom dresses that people donated to the association. Formal dresses and men's suits are given free of charge to youth in single-parent families.   — Photo by Danette Dooley/Special to The Telegram

Single parents organization reaches out to cover costs

After 25 years of helping one-parent families, the executive director of the Single Parent Association of Newfoundland (SPAN) says without major core funding, the association won't be able to...

Danette Dooley
May 21, 2013

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