WINNIPEG – Volunteers hit North End streets for a second day as part of the Winnipeg police-led Restore Our Core campaign.
The clean-up is part of a larger effort by police to develop positive relationships in the community and to eliminate stereotypes about the North End area.
“This is why we’re encouraging people from the communities around the city of Winnipeg to come down here, to see it, to be able to erase the stigmas that they hear or they see,” said staff sergeant Ron Johansson with the Winnipeg Police.
Over 400 people were part of the clean-up crew on Friday.
Along with picking up garbage on streets and in back lanes, they also tore down derelict buildings, built benches and helped to freshen up the Indian and Metis Friendship Centre and a Seniors’ home.
“There are great and wonderful people down here, there are people here from very different socioeconomic conditions, and what we’re trying to do is give them some help as well, give them the vision of what they could see with the help of other people in our city,” said Johansson.
The Restore Our Core weekend began under soon-to-be-retired police chief Devon Clunis, who grew up in the North End.
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