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Winnipeg: Winnipeg Dong and Centennial Neighbourhood

winnipeg: It's quite an honour to have my name attached to this park and a piece of Winnipeg, according to CBC. Something that me and my family never could have ever expected, he said at a ceremony Tuesday morning. The Centennial neighbourhood is now home to Gord Dong park, named after the longtime resident and former president of the Centennial Community Improvement Association. Why not We have extra' Community Cupboard provides food in Winnipeg Dong, an immigrant who moved to Winnipeg from Hong Kong in the '50s, first lived on Pacific Avenue initially in a basement and then on the main floor of a house which his family shared with three other tenants. I bought my house just three doors down from where I originally grew up, he said. He said some of his fondest memories were of playing on the area's train tracks, loading docks and local parks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.