To the editor:

Regarding the homeless problem.

I work at a liquor store. Often I am asking homeless people to move on from panhandling outside my store.

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I understand the sadness for their situation, and how it feels like one is helping someone in crisis, but please give to the food bank, a homeless shelter or any other organization that is trying to help these people get back on their feet.

The cash you hand them outside my store is most often being spent in my store, or down the street for a fix.

The cash handed out does nothing to improve their situation or issues that got them there.

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One if the regular panhandlers commented to a clerk at the till that he bets he made more in two hours than shesa国际传媒檒l make in her whole day.

Just not right.

Sheri Pybus

West Kelowna