‘Overpopulation’

Dear Editor:

I am a Grade 7 student at John Black Public School. In Fergus there’s a problem with overpopulation. It used to be quiet, allowing kids to play road hockey and run in fields, but now there are cars and houses in the way. When I was younger I used to play on this big hill made of dirt with my siblings and friends. We would be there almost every day, and would go sledding in the winter and climb it in the summer, but now that hill isn’t there; instead there are houses and buildings in the way. I cried really hard when I found out it was leaving. All of the kids would play there and now it’s gone.

Let kids have their fun and be able to have those fields to run in and forests to climb in and parks to play in. Protect our green spaces, protect our forests, protect our Earth.

Dog owners have nowhere to walk their dogs. Teens that are applying to jobs have a difficult time getting them because so many kids are in Fergus that need them.

Since the government won’t do anything, we have to rise up and do it ourselves. I love meeting new people and I think that it’s healthy for our town when there are new people, but it’s getting really excessive.

So let’s take a step back and slow down to stop over-populating our town.

Sophia Ham,
Fergus