I haven't seen any inside the construction zone since the perimeter
went up. Homeless people aren't stupid; they adapt to changes in their
environment and they move on, when necessary.
Homeless people spend a great deal of their time "moving on," in fact;
that's why the kindest and most-useful gift you can give a homeless
person, is a brand-new pair of well-fitted shoes. They need them more
than we do, trust me.
-- Tony West
On 9/13/2010 6:45 PM, Wilma de Soto wrote:
Have the homeless gone now?
Readers who are on Facebook can navigate to its "Friends of
Clark Park" page for photo evidence that the arborists were right.
I snuck over the construction fence to photograph some of the
felled timber. In cross section, 40% of these trunks are clearly
diseased: they show internal rot ranging from incipient to
massive. Either way, they had to go. The City cannot plan a
50-year infrastructure around a handful of 5-year or 10-year
trees. We all must build for a deeper future in this city -- for
children and grandchildren yet to come.
-- Tony West
