Any advice?! I need it ASAP!

[king2005]

What a situation,Those poor kids,Sounds to me she needs to be in a hospital to make her better.

She does, but they turned her away.

Back home there is a rule. If your born there, you'll die there & more then likely young.

The drug use & mental illness is pretty high there (that town has the highest crime ratio of ALL of Canada.. rapes, murders, suicides & DRUGS galore!!!)... I blame some of it on health care... If they would help more young folks who want/need help, then the suicide ratio would drop drasticly! & so would a lot of other ratios, drug use!!!

I was one of the lucky ones that got out of that town before getting mixed up in drugs. As I was heading down a BAD path as I did see no future like everyone else. Even though my Ex was a horrible person, if him & his family didn't take me into the city with them for school, I never would have gone & I would have stayed with the ummmm... lets leave it at that... But ya, it would have been bad

My sister got mixed up in drugs at about 12yrs old. She got preg. at 14 & OD'ed over & over & over to kill it... She was a horrid reck... When I finished college, dad no longer had to pay for my child care (I would have stayed in school longer, but I knew my sister needed the $ more then I did).. so my dad got her out of that town & into school.. Shes been clean (even from pot) since Aug 2006 or a little earlier... She hasn't touched coke, or E in years. She has cut way back on drinking, to the point she only drinks at parties, but doesn't get wasted... He smoking is going down.. She hasn't quit it yet, but she keeps cutting back at her own pace.

Chance & his g/f will be in that town, prob. for life. Unless they get a break, Chance was offered free university paid by his uncle, but he still hasn't gone I tried to incourage him to go, but he doesn't want to leave home

[Lori Jordan]

What town are they in?

[king2005]

What town are they in?

Smiths Falls

Its where the Hershey Plant is.. but I think its still shut down, which is horrible news! the RRC is closing & thats bad enough! if both go, the town is going to die even more.

As a passer by, you'd never know the town was a hell hole, as the mayor spends lots on decorations. The people you meet are friendly, its what you don't see is the problem.

[Catty1]

Stunningly beautiful area, up highway 7...so sad that there is so much despair in the midst of that paradise.

Prayers for Chance and that woman.

[king2005]

Stunningly beautiful area, up highway 7...so sad that there is so much despair in the midst of that paradise.

Prayers for Chance and that woman.

Many years ago I was talking to sthe elders of my old neighbourhood & learned why the town is the way it is..

It use to be a VERY rich town. The trains use to stop there & the town made a tone of cash off that. That pretty much supplied the whole town its wealth. Then the trains stopped & the town went poor too quickly, so people couldn't move away, they were trapped. They became depressed, & the crime & drugs took over.

If you go to the other side of the train tracks, thats the old town. I REFUSE TO GO NEAR THERE!! its that bad!! I had to go there once. I had my old dog (lab, rottie, pitty mix, so he was BIG) & my friend her her 200lb Rottie. Even with their muscle & with them being pprotective of us, we were still scared to death!!

My neighbourhood use to be ok as I was growing up.. its where all the old people lived. Then they all kicked the bucket & their homes sold for cheap & families moved in. Thats when crime went WAY up in our neighbourhood. If it wasn't for our dog, we would have lost everything. He stopped a LOT of people trying to break in & those are only the ones I know about.

I will not walk the streets alone there, not even now. I feel safer walking to my car in our getto neighbourhood at night, then in the middle of the day back home!!(the main drag & many areas are safe for visitors, but not for people like me!! I'm known(not in a bad way, but I still don't want those people near me) & people think i'm my sister & having crack heads coming up to me, or a large gang of teens hounding me, is bloody scary!!! Thats why most visitors see nothing. Dealers, druggies, & the others don't just walk up to anyone. & most do have manors. The people I was with were the sweetest kindest people you could meet. You'd never know they were into what they were into. I sure as heck didn't for the first year, I had no clue, until I was fully accepted/trusted & then sat down & told.. Talk about a shock