A TEAM EFFORT

Three cheers to the residents of the Riley Road area, just across
Parksville's northern border in French Creek, for getting together to
talk about the drug house in their neighbourhood -- and for inviting
the police to their meeting.

Police don't want vigilantes but you get the feeling they're sometimes
mystified why people are so quick to say 'help me' and so slow to help
themselves.

This meeting lets each resident know they're not alone and it gets the
police and the neighbours on the same page.

Now it's time for others to do their part. The Regional District of
Nanaimo needs to get working on a bylaw that empowers it to fine
drug-house owners and the Vancouver Island Health Authority needs to
check out the complaints about rats and garbage.

Together we can get this done.