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Home found for Syrian refugees

The father speaks English and has a Master’s degree in Engineering.
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A spokesman for the local committee handling the arrival of a pair of Syrian families to North Bay says a four-bedroom home has been secured for the Syrian refugee family of six arriving in North Bay by the weekend.

Don Curry says the family is travelling from Jordan to Toronto and then on to North Bay.

"The father speaks English and has a Master’s degree in Engineering. The mother has a year of university education and the four sons are 10, 15, 17 and 19. They have education appropriate to their ages and the eldest son has work experience as a painter," says  Curry in a news release.

The family speaks Arabic and has no relatives in Canada.

The volunteer constituent group met Wednesday to discuss housing options and learned that housing committee chair Julie Grant found an empty house that can be furnished in time for the family’s arrival.

Furniture donations for the family have been kept in storage.  A second house is ready to go for a mother with nine children, whose arrival is also expected soon.

Curry says the original family of nine, which is in Lebanon, is still going through the long international process before they can come to North Bay too.

Almost $70,000 has been raised locally for the two families.