A household dwelling at a campground in Peterborough, Ont., says they’re being ordered to go away — regardless of paying for his or her campsite since arriving.
Shanna Miller, her husband and three kids have been staying at Beavermead Campground since Might 10. Miller claims extreme medical circumstances have saved her and her husband from common work. In February she says “unsafe conditions” at a rental residence compelled the household to go away.
Unable to seek out reasonably priced housing or shelter areas within the metropolis for her household, Miller says they pitched their tents within the campground and have paid for his or her prolonged keep.
“It’s not something I thought I would ever have to deal with,” she stated. “It’s been a year since I’ve been looking for another place to live. I haven’t found it.”
Nevertheless, Otonabee Conservation, which operates the park by means of an settlement with the Metropolis of Peterborough, issued a trespass discover to the household on June 18.
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“Beavermead Campground is not a housing option for you and you will not be permitted to make consecutive bookings in the future,” a letter states.
The household was first requested to go away when their reserving ended on Friday. Nevertheless, a subsequent letter on Thursday prolonged their tenting to no later than June 27 if some circumstances — together with not paying by money — had been adopted.
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Otonabee Conservation didn’t reply to repeated requests for an interview with Ontario Chronicle on Friday.
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Miller says they not too long ago bought a leisure car to maintain at Beavermead, nevertheless, the campground says the household can’t return.
“Crushed, ’cause it’s like, this was supposed to be safe, this was supposed to be a good place for our family to be,” she stated. “I’m not out on someone else’s property, I’m not destroying city property, I’m not bothering anybody.”
The conservation authority’s web site doesn’t have any guidelines relating to size of keep at Beavermead Campground, which provides 18 unserviced campsites and 77 serviced campsites (with hydro, water). Showers and washrooms are additionally out there for campers to make use of.
Peterborough metropolis councillor Keith Riel, co-chairperson of town’s housing and homeless portfolio, says he spoke with the household on Thursday.
“I don’t know the particulars of why they (Otonabee Conservation) have asked this particular family to leave,” he advised Ontario Chronicle. “My main concern is to try to find housing for them.”
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Riel says he’s reached out to metropolis workers, who knowledgeable him they had been working with the household to discover a decision.
Riel says a household paying to dwell at Beavermead is the primary he’s heard of it “this season.”
“It’s a precarious situation, and I don’t have the background on the family but that’s not what my sole aim was by contacting our city staff,” he stated. “I’m more concerned with the children than the particulars of why she’s being asked (to leave) or the position she is in. We have professionals to deal with that. She reached out to me, told me a bit of her story. My main concern is to get them housed.”
The councillor says every week he receives calls from people who say they’re unhoused or are about to turn out to be unhoused.
“We need as much housing as we can possibly get and it’s not getting any better,” Riel stated.
Miller says if her household is compelled to go away the campground, they’ll head east to a campground within the village of Havelock — farther from job alternatives and medical care.
“I have to hope and pray that somebody can come and help me…. It’s definitely a crushing reality,” she stated.
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