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Guardian Angels Coming To Halifax |
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Written by Staff
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
 "I just finished reading about how a 15 year old, in Halifax, beat a Senior Citizen with metal table legs. We would be more than happy to organize a chapter for Nova Scotia" - Founder and Director Curtis Sliwah, The Guardian Angels. With that statement the wheels have been put into motion to set up a local Halifax chapter of this world renowned volunteer organization comprised of unarmed citizen patrol.
Sliwa was responding to an request made by DumpKelly.com a website devoted to promoting a complete overhaul of Halifax city council starting with replacing the current mayor, Peter Kelly.
Halifax has been witnessing a spate of violent crime this past summer with reports of senseless attacks on innocent citizens by youth wielding weapons from knives to baseball bats to metal table legs. Sliwa was alluding to a recent incident involving a small group of young women who allegedly attacked a woman in her sixties using metal table legs. The attack was apparently unprovoked.
Sliwa founded The Guardian Angels in 1979 while he was working as a night manager of a McDonald's restaurant in the Bronx. The citizen patrol group with more than 90 chapters throughout the world is a volunteer organization made up of locally trained citizens who conduct community patrols in an effort to instill a sense of pride in the community thereby leading to safer neighbourhoods. Although The Guardian Angels offer a unique approach to citizen patrol by inviting inner city and at-risk youth to join their organization, both young and old are encouraged to take part.
Halifax will join several other Canadian cities who have established Guardian Angel chapters including most recently in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.
DumpKelly.com said in their news release that they would release details of the development of the Halifax chapter of The Guardian Angels as they unfold. |
