Re: “Councilors support relocating social, public health services” (April 15, Page B1):
I am a single woman, in her 80s, who lives half-a-block from Milestone Recovery on India Street, near the Needle Exchange, who walks to Portland Stage at night to usher and who served at Preble Street when it was a soup kitchen.
My grandchildren have grown up in Philadelphia and see street people every time they leave their home. When they visit me, we walk everywhere on the peninsula. Questions come up and increased understanding of different people has resulted.
Students, artists, low-income people and those without homes need living quarters and services easily accessible on the peninsula. Forest Avenue is a perfect location. When children are walking through the city, they are always with adults. A simple greeting, while passing someone, elicits another one in response. If one feels uncomfortable, one can cross the street.
Yes, let’s talk this through and support everyone.
Delene Perley
Portland
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