Last Friday, a Pembroke charity dismantled its community garden at the direction of city council.
Raised planters sit outside The Grind in Pembroke, Ont., before they were removed at the city's direction.
"It was a hard, hard day — and a hard week leading up to that," said Jerry Novack, executive director of The Grind, a volunteer organization and charity that provides services ranging from homelessness support to a lunch program for low-income clients. Novack said volunteers at The Grind spearheaded a partnership with the local Fellowes High School, which built and donated the planters and supplied the plants.
"There was a space that was leftover where we had initially thought the smoking area would be," explained Novack. "What our volunteers decided to do was to create a garden in that area." "We know that we've had some loitering issues in terms of after-hours in that area," said Coun. Troy Purcell. "These [planters] become seats, very quickly.""They're gonna become seats and they'll be used as a patio — and maybe they'll be putting their cigarette butts out in the plants," she said.Councillors oppose planters at Pembroke charity, fearing they'll be used as seatsA majority of councillors in Pembroke, Ont.
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