A replacement to a grocery store sign that once read ‘Safeway’, now bears the name of a prominent, hard-working man: Lim Soon Dayton. yyc
“He offered credit to people in the community when they couldn’t afford groceries, he tried to make sure he was generous and a good Calgarian,” Johnson said.“At the age of 14, how can you be brought somewhere and know nothing and left everything you love behind you and how you survive that?” Joanne said.
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