George was with FoWP from the very start. He came to all our meetings and especially enjoyed when we all had breakfast together. His favorite was sausages and eggs. He also brought gifts for people. He enjoyed a smoke in the sun on the bench closest to the street where he could hang with neighbours and watch the passers-by. George was taken to St. Joe’s almost a year ago. He lived there on the mental-health floor. I ran into him when I was visiting Marlene in the hospital and he told me he wanted to come home but he didn’t know if his apartment was still there for him.
FoWP has memorialized the passing of several community members on the fence. We feel it is important that our community knows, when society looks down on the poor, that each one of us is important and will be missed. There have been a lot of deaths in the low-income community of the Junction – a higher than average death rate linked to poverty and poor housing conditions.
