Emotions run high at Saskatoon shelter meeting
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It was standing room only as over 300 people crammed into a small gym in Sutherland to hear what Councillor Darren Hill had to say about a planned emergency shelter.
It was standing room only as over 300 people crammed into a small gym in Sutherland to hear what Councillor Darren Hill had to say about a planned emergency shelter.
Some residents seem ready for a fight with the city over the choice of location — the former Central Avenue fire hall — which they worry will put children and others in the neighbourhood at risk.
“I’m angry and no one talked to us. Enough, Tell me the solution, I’ll do it,” Bryony Colin, told the standing-room-only crowd Sunday.
She lives across the street from the fire hall and spoke to the crowd holding back tears.
“I was angry and frustrated to not to be talked to beforehand. It feels like I am worthless,” she says.
It was a sentiment held by many at the meeting about the planned shelter location that was revealed in January.
A single mother, Olena Yermaokva who arrived in Saskatoon last year from Ukraine also addressed the crowd saying, she was given housing in the apartments beside the upcoming shelter by Sask Housing which she is grateful for and was happy to be living in, until now.
