“How about a soup kitchen, that offers a one way bus ride back to Hobbema?
Send them home with a full belly at least”
– submitted at www.wetaskiwintomorrow.ca
Does Wetaskiwin need a soup kitchen? What about transportation to (and from) Hobbema?
You should tell us what you think. You can either post your comments below or send us an email.
5 comments
tired says:
Sep 30, 2009
Who would pay for this bus ride?
Jamie says:
Oct 14, 2009
As with the soup it could come from donations ?Perhaps Hobbema might contribute towards transportation back ?.Im sure they are aware of the problems .
Nicole says:
Oct 16, 2009
Ummm, I am not being racist or anything, however, why do we have to feed and shelter Hobbema's people? Like why are they not setting up soup kitchens and shelters in Hobbema. On top of that I agree with "tired" in asking who would be paying for this bus ride, as well who would be paying for the soup. Not the food bank, they are running low on food themselves right now. Most of the population who use the soup kitchen are vagrants, you know, the ones who are causing the most problems in Wetaskiwin right now …
REDC says:
Oct 20, 2009
Here's a thought, there are many of us Hobbemians living and working in Wetaskiwin. We're not vagrants, we're your neighbours who choose to live off of the reserve and raise our families here in Wetaskiwin. We pay taxes, we shop locally. We add to this community and we are, suprise, in the majority. I feel sick when I see some of "my people" on the street and by "my people" I mean fellow human beings who are struggling with issues of addiction. Regardless of race or background, Wetaskiwin has homeless people and they deserve a solution. Not to be shipped back to their "home" which everyone assumes is Hobbema. I doubt homeless shelters and soup kitchens in Edmonton ask people where they are originally from.
Ted Hill says:
Nov 3, 2009
Neighbors Outreach of Wetaskiwin is a Soup Kitchen – offering soup and buns and coffee and a warm place and fellowship and other basic needs everyday of the week. Monday to Saturday from 8-10am and Sundays from 1-2pm. It is an opportunity to bring health to a people despised and rejected, broken and discounted. The key value for the Soup Kitchen AKA – The Breakfast Table is the relationships that are built – stories are heard and honored and lifestyles are challenged … this place is "messy" – as it is by no means a "quick fix" but the more a community focuses on the broken and beaten down and the forgotten the healthier it becomes. n nThere are over a dozen churches that support the N.O.W. and it is growing … the idea of rides may be an important consideration that may confront some of the natural enabling that a "soup kitchen" creates – ie – a place to eat and warm up before engaging in some of the negative activities that our friends that attend the Breakfast Table do. n nI am thankful to be an active part of the NOW Breakfast Table and encourage others to learn about the lengthy process of the broken becoming whole! n nTed Hill, pastor