By Cheryl Jahn

Millennium Park shut down

Sep 12, 2023 | 4:05 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – What has become known as Moccasin Flats has grown in the past few days, with some but not all of the folks from Millennium Park being transplanted there.

“I think one person got sheltered,” explains Katt Cadiuex with Uniting Northern Drug Users. “We’re working really hard to get the couple that got arrested into some type of housing. We actually put them up in a hotel room yesterday because of the trauma they went through. And they don’t feel safe down here, like you said. And there’s a lot of reasons, different reasons why people stayed, different spaces. The majority of everyone that was at Millennium are just spread out all over the city now.”

Mayor Simon Yu says he’s aware of how upset folks were at the way the whole matter was handled, but he’s happy with the outcome.

“I’m just glad the overall operation went relatively smoothly,” he says .”There was no violence and nobody got hurt. And our staff working on that. For that I’m very grateful. It was a peaceful process.”

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But Cadieux says the timeline was challenging to move people out of the Millennium Park site.

“It was really, really challenging to get everything down and, you know, and do their homes in time and brought down here. Not everybody’s comfortable coming down here because, I mean, like to having two different parks creates a sense of safety for different reasons.”

However, the mayor sympathizes with the plight of the folks at the former Millennium Park Camp and now Moccasin Flats. “For the people out there on the street, it’s not it’s not by choice. They have no place to go. So we will be working very, very hard with the BC housing. The government to make sure before the winter comes, all the people on the street have a safe, warm place to go to. In the meantime, back at Moccasin Flats, the United Northern Drug Users is working double time to ensure services are available.”

by Cheryl Jahn

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