City issues eviction notice to Belle Park campers in error

Dr. Moore to campers: ‘Nothing about you, without you’

July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan, Local Journalism Initiative 0 Comments Artillery Park, Belle Park, Belle Park homeless encampment, bylaw enforcement, bylaw enforcement officer, City of Kingston, eviction, Jim Neill, Kristal Wilson, Laine Hurlde, Mutual Aid Katarokwi Kingston (MAKK), tent city

City of Kingston CAO Lanie Hurdle said an eviction notice issued to campers at Belle Park on Tuesday Jul. 28 was a mistake. The notice indicated campers had two hours to remove themselves and their property from the park. “The intent today was to verbally ask campers that are on

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June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Samantha Butler-Hassan, Local Journalism Initiative 0 Comments Belle Park, camping, City of Kingston, deadline extended, Dr. Kieran Moore, Home Base Housing, homeless camp, homeless encampment, infectious disease, Kingston, Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington Public Health (KFLA), Mayor Bryan Paterson, tent city, Tom Greening

Dr. Kieran Moore, Kingston’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, uses a simple phrase to sum up his approach to the Belle Park tent camp: “Nothing about you, without you,” he said. This maxim of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health Unit keeps the affected people at the centre