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Join us at Touch a Truck Event Aug 25th Tribute Community Centre. Whitby scouts mark end of a memorable journey Slowing down the summer and drivers on the roads in Brooklin thecitizen BrooklinThursday, August 24, 2017 facebook.com/newsdurham twitter.com/newsdurham durhamregion.com Brooklin United Church helps present 'gift of life in Canada' to refugees SEE PLIGHT PAGE 6 Did you know? COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER READERSHIP REMAINS VERY STRONG METROLAND PAPERS IN DURHAM WELL READ 74% 1 OF THE LAST 4 ISSUES OF THEIR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER (INCLUDING FLYERS) OF ONTARIANS READ READERSHIP is particularly STRONG IN DURHAM REGION with readership topping 82% Call your LOCAL METROLAND MEDIA ADVERTISING CONSULTANT today at 905-579-4400 or 905-683-5110 Spend 'a night at WindReach Farm' in Ashburn at fundraiser Sept. 16 ASHBURN -- WindReach Farm will host its annual fundraising gala next month in support of the Horseshoes for Hope Campaign. The event will feature a cocktail reception followed by a three-course dinner served in the Alexander J. Mitchell Equestrian Centre, which will be decked out for the occasion. Entertainment will be provided by Next Generation Leahy, featuring high-energy live performance of Celtic-based music. A Night at WindReach Farm will be held on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 5 p.m. at 312 Townline Rd., Ashburn. To buy a ticket or sponsor this event, call Carol Dahlquist at 905-655-5827 ext. 231 or e-mail carol.dahlquist@windreachfarm.org. Visit www.windreachfarm. org for more information. REKA SZEKELY rszekely@durhamregion.com BROOKLIN -- A Brooklin woman is asking how a homeless Durham senior with mental health issues could be discharged twice from Lakeridge Health's Oshawa hospital back onto the street with no place to live. Wendy Murdoch is a retired trauma counsellor who met Gwen, an 84-year-old senior, through Team Chelsea, a local group that helps people find lost pets that has gotten to know the local homeless population through their work. "They took Gwen and they put her in a motel on Champlain Avenue and I became involved at that point," she explains. The hotel was a temporary solution and Murdoch explains Gwen bounces around spending nights with people who offer her a place to stay or in motels when someone offers to pay the bill. She has spent nights at domestic violence shelters, Lakeridge Health's ER and even the police station. "Sometimes she's knocking on random doors, which really increases her vulnerability," said Murdoch. Due to her mental health situation, which can include aggressive and paranoid behaviour, she can't hang on to a rented apartment. "She's always evicted," explains Murdoch. "Whenever she has had a place, she'll always refuse to pay her rent. She becomes very argumentative, very confrontational; she will break things and she makes threats, she has been violent in the past and so all of those things make it impossible." Brooklin woman upset with lack of care for homeless senior SABRINA BYRNES / METROLAND BROOKLIN -- Wendy Murdoch is a retired trauma counsellor who has been working with Durham Regional Police to help an 84-year-old homeless Durham woman with mental health issues and who is chronically homeless. Murdoch is frustrated that Lakeridge Health has at least twice released the senior when she had no specific place to live.