In part one of Cold Front Line, reporter Julia Peterson explores how shelter spaces in La Ronge are dwindling despite rising needs and potentially deadly consequences.
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“These employees, they’re good people,” Dorion said. “They do the best they can to help everyone out.” “In our common area, we take down all the dining tables and bring the cots out at night, and folks sleep on the cots,” said Johnson. “When the cots run out, they sleep on the couches.Article contentIn total, Johnson says the overnight shelter only has room for 20 people.
“Sometimes all we can do, when we can’t accommodate someone, is call the RCMP and ask them to keep an eye open to make sure that they’re safe.” “Our life on the street is pretty rough,” he said. “So we live it the best we can, and we look out for each other as best we can.” Closing the door on ten or twenty people with nowhere else to go, night after night, is almost unbearable.
So far, since Scattered Site opened its overnight shelter program, Johnson says no one in the community hassleeping rough in the winter. But with more people out on the streets, and no more beds available — and sometimes, even fewer services than there used to be — she doesn’t know how long that can last.
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