To the editor:
RE: Bear mace is no joke!

I was so sorry to hear about Kevin Clark's experience that I wanted to write in. I moved to Kelowna from a much bigger and tougher city about nine years ago and I moved to get away from the big city life and problems. For the first three years I loved Kelowna and then I started to watch it slowly grow, started to see and hear about more of the crime and drugs that was present in the community I lived in (the Mission), and watched as what was a safe neighborhood, turn into a place where you did not want to go out at night.

This happened to Kelowna very fast. In a matter of 5-6 years, that town has gone down the drain and it looks that way too. There obviously is not enough help out there for the people who truly need it or Kelowna would not have so many homeless or so many addicts on their streets. The addicts then have to feed their addiction somehow with crime. We need to treat the core problem, to reduce the crime.

As for these teenagers with pepper spray, what is becoming of our youth today when it is fun to do that to someone? Why do these kids even have pepper spray? It is an example of their upbringing I guess. Where are the parents? What kind of role models do they have? Kelowna has changed a lot, that is the only reason why I left. I do not even like to go there to visit anymore, there are better places to be in the Okanagan! I also think one of the major problems in Kelowna has been Kelowna Council and the bad decisions they have made for the city.

Sincerely,

Dee Knudsen