First the Shepherd Must Look

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First the Shepherd Must Look

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I am still very heartbroken regarding the terrible treatment received by the homeless population of Walla Walla and College Place, Wa, at the hands of the city management.

The present camp the disadvantaged officially inhabit was inundated this season by the worst winter weather we've had since the 1960s. I personally cannot even imagine waking up daily in a windblown tent in a frozen field, only to have virtually nowhere to go.

We are likely going to lose a great deal of the grapes this year, and some farmers believe the vines will die all the way to the root.

Many people would say that connecting these two conditions in a causative manner is mere magical thinking. That the city council's cruelty cannot be blamed for the terrible weather.

I wonder how many of those people own Bibles and know who Moses is.

When Pharaoh refused to release God's chosen people from slavery in Egypt, one of the first things God did was send storms to destroy the livelihood of the offending slavers. Their crops, homes, livestock, and vineyards were totally compromised by wind and hail, the most terrible and capricious of weather for a farmer to endure.

Egypt was the agrarian center of the ancient world, much like Walla Walla pretends to be. Does Walla Walla believe it owes anything to the Good Lord for all the natives and Chinese they disenfranchised after ruthlessly using them? Do they think that God's eye, his Providence, is hidden by the Rocky Mountains, limited by the curve of earth and time? Do they believe God cannot see how the people here treat other human souls, that he can't hear the "No's" and "Don't Wants"?

Do they think God can't hear the prayers of the honest poor?

Too long has this city been comfortable in its storehouse of stolen goods. For a hundred and fifty years the whites have oppressed all others, even their own poor, and now we have a city manager with no genetic ties to any of the people here, who apparently feels nothing for them in the place others would call a heart. I'm not trying to be racist, I'm pointing out that in a so called Christian city, even a Masonic city, the leaders should not be allowing a foreigner to strip civil rights from our homeless as if we were living in a New Delhi slum.

The state and city make money hand over fist on alcohol and marijuana. They tax the shit out of the people. Yet when personal finances go under from a lack of coherent insurance coverage or a person loses a car or home, where is the state? Where is the city? They pick the bones and don't even bury them!

Just like Chief Yellowbird: taken in, lied to, chained up, skinned alive, and tossed like garbage. This place would make Fallujah look like a playground if one could time travel.

Truly, one feels like a Stranger in a Strange Land, looking down at this tiny piece of America and realizing how far we have come from civilization.

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Come to find out, not only has our city turned its back on the needy, it has maneuvered the homeless into a vulnerable position to be utiluzed by the Mexican Mafia cartels.

We literally have gangsters hiding among the homeless here, using their poverty & helplessness to propagate drug dealing, stalking, and violence.

A gang runs the park next to our bus station. Everyone here is in denial. I live in a fucking crack house where the drug dealer keeps me awake til 4am many nights of the week, and he's a white kid! So goddamn disappointing.

Was reading a lot yesterday about Transnational and "colorless" gangs who under cartel leadership have anonymized much of their illicit activity.

Dude downstairs apparently leaves the building 5 or more times per night, often making deliveries until 3am! He's always got a gangbanger friend with him, and lately the landlord has been hiding whereas the gangsters have been intimidating the residents and bringing expensive tinted windows cars near and onto our property.

It's so not cool and how long do they expect section 8 people to just sit here and watch drug dealers come and go all night?

How ironic that I was given a White Noise machine when I complained about these apparent heroin dealers. Lol
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Putting the homeless away from city center sounds cruel at first, but on second thought, it will take them away from the gangs & cartels running our streets.

City council made an unusual decision to go ahead with plans to move camp away from Veteran's golf course & over to Fort Walla Walla.

Unfortunately if I'm not mistaken, there's a massive development across the street from that park. A new neighborhood being built for more drug dealers to pimp out & probably affect the homeless camp a lot more than the camp affects them.


Gotta see thru to the actual issues.
Low income people actually represent a lot of income to others when you factor section 8 etc. The community talks like it's some terrible deal to have poor people here.... but it's the wealthy causing the problem.
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The tl; dr version

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City Council needs to wash away its elitism

Man, oh, man! Our forever-lost city manager and City Council members can’t help themselves when it comes to shirking any duties involving the poor and any roads within two blocks of downtown. Looks like it’s just not their problem, not their cup of tea, not their idea of fun and, from the looks of it, a challenging serious problem for them.

There’s no denying a lot of money for city roads just disappeared. A little embarrassing considering we have two City Council members who belong to the Good Roads Transportation Association. Perhaps we can list our streets as works of art. Each street has a unique asphalt quilt pattern, they span generations and I’m sure there are plenty of people who can tell stories about the damage their vehicles have received from Walla Walla streets.

Where do we send our claims, City Council? Just as easily as the officials hand out money to certain segments in the community, they can go door to door and hand out claim forms for vehicle damage to the taxpayers. Remember them? The ones who have been forced to sit and watch this City Council build a little downtown gem, while all the while neglecting this city.

Shame on each and every one of the Council members. You see, these City Council members have been sitting in elitism and taxpayer money far too long. It stinks to high heaven and they have lost the plot of what makes a good city.

Now the homeless. They haven’t got a chance of survival with this City Council. What does our poverty-challenged City Council do? They climbed out of their elite basting bath, stood up tall and made the same decision again to move the homeless to Fort Walla Walla. Didn’t they just run your City Council derrières out of there?

The Fort Walla Walla decision is interesting too since two City Council members have ties to the Walla Walla VA. Apparently the Veterans Affairs Department’s property doesn’t have enough problems. Gee, thanks City Council.

Who assumes responsibility and liability for this decision which had more than enough reasons not to be on this property? We need names. City Council members need to get up, wash that dirty elitism out of their hair and do the business of the people or perhaps, step down.

Demetria Guillen
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Walla Walla police probe drug deaths

Sheila Hagar Sep 6, 2016 (0)


Officials are awaiting lab tests to determine causes of three deaths attributed to drug overdoses last week, according to the Walla Walla Police Department.

“While lab results are pending, it is highly likely the deaths were caused from injecting heroin that was either laced with another powerful depressant, or was in a very pure form,” police spokesman Tim Bennett said in a news release.

Without toxicology reports, officials cannot be completely certain what caused the overdoses, but heroin laced with fentanyl has been seen in past Walla Walla area deaths, Detective Matt Wood said today.


The first of the three overdoses was the death of Whitman College junior Josh Fishman on Wednesday. Walla Walla County Coroner Richard Greenwood said this morning Fishman, 20, had a history of prescription drug abuse before attending Whitman last year.

The campus newspaper reported Fishman was from New Jersey and over the summer had worked as a surgical intern at Baylor College of Medicine. At Whitman, he had been taking pre-med and sociology courses.

The other two deaths were reported Friday. Officials as of this morning had not released their identities pending notification of family.

One was a 20-year-old male who was found dead at Koncrete Industries, 502 N. 13th Ave., at about 1:30 p.m. near the warehouse. He was found with a drug kit containing a syringe nearby, Greenwood said.

Employees at Koncrete Industries had seen the man walking around and eventually lying down on the ground. The spot attracts people living in homelessness and it is not unusual for people to sit on the nearby railroad tracks or take naps in the immediate area, noted one employee, who declined to give his name.


The employee estimated the victim had been on the ground about 20 minutes before he was discovered to be dead.

The second death Friday was a 68 year-old Milton-Freewater woman who was found unconscious from drug use and resuscitated, then taken to Providence St. Mary Medical Center where she later died, Greenwood said today.

Autopsies for the Walla Walla man and Milton-Freewater woman were planned for today.


Dozens treated as heroin overdose spikes hit several states

Sheila Hagar

Sheila Hagar has written for the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin since 1998. Sheila covers health, social services, lifestyle and feature stories. She also writes a column, Home Place, usually highligting family life and slices of local life.
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I did not know about this cluster of heroin overdoses /hot shots until tonight.

I hope people take it seriously when someone tries to expose the pieces of shit who cause this here.
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Overdoses a growing problem in the Walla Walla Valley

Everett Maroon
Sep 26, 2016

Walla Walla has a serious and lethal drug problem.

County Coroner Richard Greenwood lists 24 deceased people locally, all of whom died in the last two years from overdose or as a direct consequence of heroin or other opioid drug use.

Yet, many do not accept this harsh reality. And that makes combating this problem difficult.
But we’re not there yet. We were denied our funding request because as one member of the committee put it, he “couldn’t see where the magnitude of the problem is,” even as he was looking at Greenwood’s list of the 24 local drug-related deaths.
The nearest detox center for opioid users is in Yakima. In this environment it is easy for drug users to fall into homelessness, and it is more than challenging to climb back up without access to critical and basic services.
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Newspaper today or yesterday said, coroner finally got to hire an assistant.

Hopefully this will translate into more detail & attention given in the interest of separating drug related deaths from those with natural causes.

Hopefully more murderers will be held accountable.
Brotherhood falls asunder at the touch of fire!
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
Not coloured like his own, and having power
To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
~William Cowper
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