LETTER – Sorry, but Kamloops is not a clean city

Re: EDITORIAL – Stop insulting Kamloops and be grateful for a great city

I’m sorry to say but the city is not clean. Everywhere you go you see that humans have gone to the washroom on the sidewalks because they have no access to use the washrooms. Valleyview is the worst because nothing is open after 9 p.m.

I used to be able to almost sit anywhere but now I cannot because of needles and condoms. I’m scared to put my feet in the river because of broken glass or objects that will hurt me. I see dead fish floating and if not dead animals like dogs or deer.

This city could use more clean up than you may think. You’re not out here every day; you don’t see what’s really going on. And drug users have to do crime to get by in the city.

Everything has gone up in price or it’s difficult to even get a hotel room.

Drug users, almost all of them if I am correct, are what they are because of difficult living and trauma in their life. Drugs are not enough anymore; they need so much to cope with what happened and if it’s not enough they use too much and either overdose or run out of money and resort to crime.

The community is not strong enough to help the homeless. Because of crime they blame all homeless when it’s not them, it’s the people who are criminals that move here to get more crimes done for money because they have no way to get an income. You need an address for ID you need ID for income. All this starts with a phone, which most do not have or have not a way to access one all the time .

And most people are not even allowed to use the government assistance phone because the workers are having conflicts with the clients and most workers are in the wrong but they run the show so they win and the clients are left to suffer.

ASK Wellness thinks they can do whatever they want so it makes it hard for people to live in the program when they put rules and stipulations on living there and their items for sure get thrown out or stolen and then if you don’t have a clean room you get evicted from the program.

The workers clean your room out for you and things go missing, then they are on the street again using drugs. T his is not the way a city should be run. They can’t even have visits when they follow the rules. At Crossroads no one can have visits. That’s hard on a client trying to better their life. They want to show it to their family and friends the success they have and they can’t because Crossroads do not allow visits.

I don’t think any of this is right and I don’t think anyone would wanna visit the city or at least move here. That’s why people are packing up and leaving .

Just my opinion.

J. AMOND