'DRUG-PUSHING TRANSIENTS HURTING TOWN'

Editor:

Who is welcome in Osoyoos? Drug-pushing fruit pickers and transients,
or tourists?

First I would like to ask the Mayor of Osoyoos if he is more focused
with the overgrowth of the town with all the condos and townhouses,
that you do not need, or the infestation of drug fruit pickers and transients?

It seems that this town has lost its quaintness with the overgrowth
of the town and the lack of respect for the tourists that come there
to vacation and spend their money. Our family has been going to
Osoyoos for years and I find that over the last 2 years, this year in
particular, it is running rampant with drugs, hippie fruit pickers
and transients.

We were there over the 1st of July weekend and the town was covered
with barefoot, smelly, rude, hippie fruit pickers and transients
begging for money. Not only did they move into the town and took
over, but they were lying all over the park when the fireworks were
on. They would not move for anyone and openly smoked marijuana, and
shot up drugs. I was afraid for my family and will not be back to
Osoyoos for a very long time to come. I will take my family to a far
better place than the town that I feel has turned a blind eye to its problem.

If your Mayor does not do something to put a stop to the town being
overrun by these people no one will be wanting to return and that
will mean a great loss to the economy and tourism. I think that it is
high time for the people of Osoyoos to wake up and take notice of
what is going on around your town. Don't sit on the butts hoping
someone else will do it for you.

Wake up your Mayor before it's too late. Get the filth out of the
town and don't allow them back in, or your town will suffer a great
loss of generations of families who have come to your town to enjoy
themselves for the summer.

T. Lussier

Surrey, B.C.