La Loche residents erect signs for drug awareness
Having a drug trade in any community can be hurtful to its members. Several citizens of La Loche gathered together recently to bring this message front and centre.
It was an initiative started by the local community safety board, and earlier this month, people gathered together to create signs with even stronger messages.
Stephen King, a member of the board said it was born of a similar idea the community of Buffalo Narrows did last year. Thanks to teamwork, and supply donations from Methy Construction, a local company, the project came together at the local friendship centre.
“People were encouraged to come out and paint,” King said. “One sign which says ‘a drug dealer killed my dad’ is the most startling out of all of them. One of the kid’s dad’s died of an overdose. There’s a lot of pain and hurt because of what drugs are doing to their families. We wanted to let people know this isn’t acceptable and there are people in our community that are unhappy.”