Rebuttal:
Monday, March 2, 2004 In rebuttal to the article “The Good Samaritan Inn Sets The Record Straight”.
To call people’s questions and concerns about a publicly supported place “evil” is most pretentious. It is not evil to confront an issue. What is evil is when good people know of evil, and do nothing about it.
If a meeting inviting the public to join their Board of Directors was publicized in the Daily Press it wasn’t as noticeable as the obvious aforementioned article written by the Secretary of The Good Samaritan Inn Donald Bruneau. Mr. Bruneau says it hurts him deeply to hear false rumors against the Inn. Well Mr. Bruneau, it hurts our children and families deeply having to worry about leaving our windows open anymore and being safe in our own homes. It hurts us deeply to have our neighborhood imposed upon by dropping off parolees and bringing a convicted rapist here to take up permanent residence in the homeless shelter. You don’t mention that in your “Setting The Record Straight” statement. You don’t mention a lot of things the public has the right to know. Like the homeless people can't even find the place because it is not "centrally located" Exactly when did this particular Board of Directors unite? Answer: February 2004. Why? Because of a sought after $60.000.00 Trillium grant. No one is attacking the “Homeless”. On the contrary, we want to help the poor and homeless. However this “homeless shelter” encourages dependence rather than encouraging independent living. It advertises for permanent residents and for senior citizens at the rate of up to $550.00 per month, room and board, in the Timmins Times. Founder/President of The Good Samaritan Inn Rose Nadeau advertises that women and children of any age are welcome there. She does so aware that a convicted rapist and other offenders of any crime are sharing the common bathrooms and living areas. It does not mention that boarders, parolees, Rose, her mother, and her brother are all living in the homeless shelter eating the food and taking up the space meant for the homeless. This is exactly why Jesus was born in a manger, “For there was no room at the Inn”. Rose Nadeau, in her letter to the Timmins Daily Press editor, "The Maple Leaf could serve as a Shelter" states her wants clearly. No one was willing to sell her real estate in Timmins because they did not want the shelter in their neighborhoods. Instead of the city donating or supporting the "Homeless Shelter" by moving it into one of the dozens of empty buildings in Timmins, three vehicles were donated to transport the homeless from Timmins to The Good Samaritan Inn in South Porcupine. We are 5,000 people in South Porcupine; Timmins has 50,000 with a much larger downtown core. What is evil sir is Timmins denying the homeless affordable housing or a homeless shelter in Timmins. So don't be calling it "Timmins’ first homeless shelter”. Timmins rejected the shelter by their actions. Ostracize yourselves, not the people of South Porcupine who have real concerns knowing that convicted rapists and other offenders are living in the neighborhood. The Inn must be located where it would be most accessible to the majority of homeless and poor. It makes more sense to pick up the rare homeless people from South Porcupine and transport them to Timmins to a shelter rather than transporting the many more Timmins homeless here. Just one round trip a day to Timmins at a conservative cost of $5.00 for gas per round trip equals $1,825.00 per year, whereas a liberal estimate of one round trip per week to South Porcupine from Timmins would run $260.00 per year. $1,825.00 is ¼ of the Inns $80.000.00 mortgage payment. The Inn has three donated vehicles. If each of the three vehicles makes one round trip to Timmins and back per day, (I'm sure they are used more) a conservative annual gas total would run $5,475.00, which comes to 2/3’s of the Inn's mortgage payment. Is the Good Samaritan Inn a Homeless Shelter or a Tax Shelter? Quoted from “The Good Samaritan Inn Sets the Record Straight” is the intended scolding in the above article. "Come my children, listen to me. I will teach you to fear Yahweh. Who among you delights in life, longs for a time to enjoy prosperity? Guard your tongue from evil, your lips from any breath of deceit. Turn away from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it." Psalms: 34-12-14 Mr. Bruneau goes on to warn us about what serious evils and harm can be done by the words of others and that we can curse or bless others with our mouths and will be judged accordingly by God. So be it Mr. Bruneau, you chose the quote. We who have invested our lives and money and are raising our families in South Porcupine, we who have roots and loved ones here, we who watch each other’s backs, neighbor for neighbor so we can sleep and live in peace, we who choose to live here in this "out of the way area" for our children’s and senior’s safety. We are the taxpayers , we are the voters, we too are children of God who are working hard to secure our futures. Many people are just a cheque away from being homeless, barely holding things together, and have been robbed of the delights in life and can no longer look forward to prosperity which Mr. Bruneau spoke of in his article, due to the present location of The Good Samaritan Inn. It is the "drop off centre" for parolees and home to known sex offenders, which knocks off no less than $10,000.00 in salability and property value, no matter how much we upgrade, no matter how many gold mines open. Who would want to bring their family to our neighborhood knowing who we are sharing our sidewalks and rental accommodations with? What you heard sir was the truth, there is more and it gets worse.
Mr. Bruneau, if you support the Rose Nadeau and her Good Samaritan Inn so much let them move next to your schools and home.
Yours Truly, Mary Theresa Kristie Concerned mother, grandmother, friend and home owner in South Porcupine. |
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