New shelter latest example of Carol Winter’s vision

I read with great inner applause words in your paper about a building on Wolfe Street that the city owns to be transferred into a 24-7 shelter for those in need.

One person in particular, Carol Winter, will be cheering this decision on from her afterlife location.

There is a long history of Carol’s involvement in the early days of caring for street people. It dates back to when a group called Our Space began providing daytime shelter and meals for folks in the basement of the old Legion after The Brock Mission had taken over the building.

At the time, meals were also available at the Catholic Church hall on Saturday evenings and as well at St. John’s on Sunday where today the Warming Room provides hundreds if not thousands of meals weekly to those in need.

Carol supported all of these endeavours from the onset and many of us thought it revolutionary when she would talk about having warming and cooling rooms year-round. Because in those days, these things did not exist. They existed only in the minds of some kind folk here in town. Yes, many of you churchgoers and come-by-chance caregivers, you know who you are and I thank you for your love and dedication, but in particular I must thank Carol Winter for her steadfastness and insistence that these services be brought to Peterborough.

In the coming days and weeks we will see the mayor and some councillors take bows and have praise sent their way but please remember who spearheaded this idea many years ago. It would be a fine tribute to Carol to have a brass statue of her made and installed in front of that building on Wolfe Street that could be called The Carol Winter Shelter.

Charlie Gregory, Morrow Street