Maybe this will get the ball rolling??? Who truly knows??
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Letters | Reader has suggestion to help homeless
As published on page B7 on October 19, 2006
Yes, the cold weather is just around the corner and the city should step forward on one issue.
I first came to the capital in 2003 and I didn't know anyone. During my first evening, I heard a bureaucrat shouting at someone collecting empty bottles from a garbage bin.
I said to myself: "What's the big deal anyway? In Saint John you see this act all the time."
I would soon find out there's a soup kitchen at the other end of the city and they feed the poor twice a day (all they can eat.)
There's a reason for this.
Many of these poor souls have alcohol or drug problems. The Fredericton Police Force does not patrol that area 24 hours per day and this is a good thing. This is their little area and they're out of sight and out of mind from the rest of the city.
If they were ordered to be removed from the area, they would be all around the capital, and we sure can't have that, can we? This is the bureaucratic capital city of New Brunswick and it's clean so let's keep it that way, I would suggest, albeit sarcastically.
I know 90 per cent of them and they're good people but they have a major problem with alcohol.
During the cold winter months, they would leave the area seeking warmth in the malls or behind buildings in different parts of the city.
I approached the mayor on this issue last week.
The cold winter months are just weeks away so why not build a temporary shelter for the people who have a drinking problem - a place where someone could watch over them?
This would be a win-win situation for everyone involved.
They would stay in their little area and everyone would be happy.
1 comment:
Letters | Reader has suggestion to help homeless
As published on page B7 on October 19, 2006
Yes, the cold weather is just around the corner and the city should step forward on one issue.
I first came to the capital in 2003 and I didn't know anyone. During my first evening, I heard a bureaucrat shouting at someone collecting empty bottles from a garbage bin.
I said to myself: "What's the big deal anyway? In Saint John you see this act all the time."
I would soon find out there's a soup kitchen at the other end of the city and they feed the poor twice a day (all they can eat.)
There's a reason for this.
Many of these poor souls have alcohol or drug problems. The Fredericton Police Force does not patrol that area 24 hours per day and this is a good thing. This is their little area and they're out of sight and out of mind from the rest of the city.
If they were ordered to be removed from the area, they would be all around the capital, and we sure can't have that, can we? This is the bureaucratic capital city of New Brunswick and it's clean so let's keep it that way, I would suggest, albeit sarcastically.
I know 90 per cent of them and they're good people but they have a major problem with alcohol.
During the cold winter months, they would leave the area seeking warmth in the malls or behind buildings in different parts of the city.
I approached the mayor on this issue last week.
The cold winter months are just weeks away so why not build a temporary shelter for the people who have a drinking problem - a place where someone could watch over them?
This would be a win-win situation for everyone involved.
They would stay in their little area and everyone would be happy.
What do you think?
Charles LeBlanc
Fredericton
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