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Making Central Park a better place
Children frolic in the wading pool as their parents bask in the hot summer sun; people munch on hotdogs while sitting at a row of picnic tables; a man is passed out, sprawled on his side on a wooden bench; and a handful of men and women are gathered in a circle, drinking a Lysol cocktail from a two-litre bottle.
Welcome to Winnipeg`s Central Park.
"The kids are seeing way too much," says Maizie Taylor, who runs a nearby day care and often takes the kids to the park for a swim. "Things that they learn about society, the derelicts that hang around."
Even during daylight hours, some drug pushers or panhandlers approach the children, she says. And sometimes, the children go into washrooms near the wading pool and find street people inside.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/sto...p-4793668c.html
Children frolic in the wading pool as their parents bask in the hot summer sun; people munch on hotdogs while sitting at a row of picnic tables; a man is passed out, sprawled on his side on a wooden bench; and a handful of men and women are gathered in a circle, drinking a Lysol cocktail from a two-litre bottle.
Welcome to Winnipeg`s Central Park.
"The kids are seeing way too much," says Maizie Taylor, who runs a nearby day care and often takes the kids to the park for a swim. "Things that they learn about society, the derelicts that hang around."
Even during daylight hours, some drug pushers or panhandlers approach the children, she says. And sometimes, the children go into washrooms near the wading pool and find street people inside.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/sto...p-4793668c.html