The Editor,
In April, Tri-City Transitions Society partnered with SUCCESS to locate its A Chance to Choose youth employment program to the resource centre on the corner of Mary Hill Road and Kelly Avenue in Port Coquitlam. Program staff works very hard to teach young people employment skills and respect for community, and helps them set their goals.
Just about every morning when staff arrives at the resource centre, they find that someone has left a bag of clothing and other things lying outside of the Big Brothers Box rather than placing items inside. Through the evening, people walking by the location go through the bags and leave a mess for program staff to pick up the next morning.
We have had computer monitors, mattresses, bricks and other items dumped off by the locked garbage bin, which means that resources for programming get redirected to disposing of someone's stuff.
As well, someone is dumping their garbage in our garbage bins, so by the end of the week our garbage can is full of someone else's garbage. To add to the dumping of garbage, we have had garbage bins, hoses and sprinklers stolen.
This is your community. Please help us teach youth respect for others property by respecting our facility.
Carol Metz Murray, Tri-City Transitions Society
