The territorial government has found a temporary location for the sobering centre.

ItSA国际影视传媒檚 opening Nov. 1 through April and will be located at the Salvation Army on Franklin Avenue.

The Salvation Army will house the service until renovations are complete at 5111 50 St.,

where the GNWT has a five-year lease agreement to house a combined day shelter and sobering centre.

The temporary facility will be operated by the NWT Disability Council with clinical services provided by Advanced Medical Solutions.

The NWT Disabilities Council previously operated the Sobering Centre, located in the Yellowknife Community Arena, which closed Sept. 15.

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She said this new space, located in the church area of the Salvation Army building, will be very different from the previous centre. It will have space for 30 people, 20 men and 10 women, the same number as before, but they won't be sleeping in tents on the floor.

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The furniture and bedding was provided in part by donations from local businesses. All the equipment will go to the permanent location when it opens this summer.

Bryron Hardy, ministry unit leader with the Salvation Army, told Yellowknifer the organization is just the landlord and isnSA国际影视传媒檛 involved in its operations. However, in a GNWT news release, he stated the Salvation Army was SA国际影视传媒減leasedSA国际影视传媒� to be involved.

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Alongside the sobering centre, safe ride is also back up and running. In October, Yellowknifer reported the Yellowknife Street Outreach program, which offers free rides to people in need, had slashed its hours after there was no where to take them.

Safe ride will add two more hours to its run, starting today, operating seven days a week from 1 p.m. until 1 a.m. Denning said those hours might scale back if the demand lowers over the winter.

The sobering centre will operate from 2 p.m. until 7 a.m.

Safe ride received an additional $78,000 from the city in August, on top of the $100,000 already invested. This extra funding extended operations until the end of the year. Denning wasn't sure what will happen after the coffers run dry in 2018.

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