Re: ‘Councillors Still at Odds’ (PQB News, Sept. 11)
One paragraph in that article solidified my opposition to that project, and my opposition to most of our local council.
That paragraph reads:
“Clients will be given warnings but if behaviour doesn’t improve of course we won’t be able to keep them in the building. If things continue to deteriorate, clients will be removed,” she said.
That was a statement by Violet Hayes, executive director of the Island Crisis Care Society, who will manage the facility.
So, that raises the question, when the bad ones are evicted, where are they evicted to? Where they came from originally, or into Parksville?
Just what we need, the worst of the folks housed in the facility back into the community, probably very upset at being turfed out and wreaking havoc on all and sundry.
There is no question that the council majority who approved this project had, and still have, their heads you know where. That was very obvious at that public hearing back in July when the majority of speakers were against the project. Many of those who spoke in favour were not from Parksville but from those areas that would be sending their homeless to this facility.
Hurrah for Leanne Salter and Teresa Patterson who voted against acceptance of the reports.
Bob Larson
Parksville