Pubdate: Wed, 09 Aug 2006
Source: Kelowna Capital News (CN BC)
Copyright: 2006, West Partners Publishing Ltd.
Contact:  http://www.kelownacapnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1294
Author: Mandi Flamand

RUTLAND GETS KELOWNA'S DRUGGIES

To the editor:

I am not the type of person who will go and read the newspaper all of 
the time, but something really has to grab my attention to it. And 
lately the topic that is going on with a co-worker and I is how the 
downtown area is cleaning up.

And then I read the paper: Kelowna After Dark (Aug 6 Capital News). 
But what I am wondering is, does anyone care to know where all of the 
people who are using crack or meth or any type of drug at all are 
going? Because now it seems to me that I am seeing them everyday in 
front of my home.

I live in Rutland on Hollywood Road by Willow Park, and I have lived 
in Rutland most of the time that I have lived here and love it. I 
have always felt safe, until last week.

My boyfriend and I got home and there were these two people drugged 
out (one male and one female). The female says to us that she thinks 
that her life is endangered and can she come into our home.

My boyfriend tells her that if her life is endangered then he will 
call the cops for her and then she took off and was hiding in the bushes.

On countless times we have found people behind the dumpsters smoking 
crack with their pipes--I know people that have broken these drug 
addicts' pipes.

And then just yesterday in front of our home some lady gets bear mace 
in the face then hit in the face with an elbow by her boyfriend.

Yea it is great that the downtown area is getting cleaned up, but 
they are just moving them to the Rutland area.

Mandi Flamand

Kelowna
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