Moncton rejects loan appeal from the Humanity Project

The Humanity Project won’t be getting a $200,000 from the city of Moncton.

City Council turned down the request this week from the Humanity Project and the group What Kids Need Moncton for help in buying and restoring the former Moncton Curlers’ Association building. The two groups have been sharing space there for a year. They wanted to buy and renovate it but the asking price was $450,000 but they could only raise $290,000.

Councillors rejected to request for funding after staff said the building is unsafe and fire porevention officers said it wasn’t possible to bring it up to standards.

Drug plea

An Ontario man will be sentenced Friday after pleadng guilty yesterday to drug charges.

29 year old James Clare Pihura admitted in court to leading police on a highway chase on the Trans-Canada last week that ended in Moncton.

RCMP had pulled him over in a routine traffic stop but then he took off and the chase began. It ended at a gas bar on Horsman Road at Berry Mills Road. He pleaded guilty to fleeing police in a vehicle, possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, and weapons charges.