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Tuesday, June 21, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing. See pullout in today’s paper KYLE REA/METRO
‘It’s not a safe place’ City, police vow to monitor wooded area after Gr. 6 students write of vandals, litter
London Police Chief Brad Duncan listens as Mayor Joe Fontana reads a letter written by a Grade 6 student at Lord Nelson Public School yesterday. Twenty-two Grade 6 students in Daniela Liska’s class wrote to the chief and mayor to express concern about drugs and litter in the woods behind the east-end public school. Duncan and Fontana have both vowed to clean up the area.
They’ve found used needles, beer bottles, drugs and lighters littered throughout a wooded area behind their school. And while students from Lord Nelson Public School enjoy walking through there on their way to and from school, it’s not a safe place to do so. Now, thanks to the effort of Grade 6 students, the City of London and London police have taken action to try to make the area safe again. As first reported on metronews.ca yesterday, Mayor Joe Fontana and London Police Chief Brad Duncan came to Daniela Liska’s Grade 6 class yesterday to thank them for writing letters urging action on the area. “It’s beautiful to have woods in a community such as this, we’re the Forest City, but if people are being disrespectful, it’s your right to stand up and say we are not going to tolerate this,” Duncan told students. Back in the fall, Liska wanted to take her students into the
“There are drugs and stuff we don’t even know.” FROM A LETTER BY A GRADE 6 STUDENT AT LORD NELSON PUBLIC SCHOOL
woods for a science project, but decided against it. “It’s not a safe place,” she said. Instead they went elsewhere, but she didn’t let it drop. “I decided, ‘Let’s write some letters and see what we get,’ because it’s frustrating we can’t use an area so close to the school.” The result was 22 letters individually written and sent to the city and police. Some letters describe what the area is like and problems students could face if they were to walk home. Other letters tell of finding bags filled with pot and needles on the ground and teenagers using BB guns in the woods. Both Fontana and Duncan vowed to do something. That includes cleaning up the area and patrolling the woods. KYLE REA