In part one of Cold Front Line, Julia Peterson reports 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.” Johnson says when she first started working at the shelter it served roughly 100 individual clients every season.For each of the past two winters, more than 200 people have taken shelter here. “Sometimes folks will sleep in apartment hallways,” she said. “They’ll sleep in business lobbies. Some folks are camping outside, under tarps and sleeping bags.
Isaiah Halkett, who has spent many days and nights at Scattered Site over the years, says he and his friends try to care for one another when times get hard.Article content 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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