Regina seniors seek help from province over safety concerns in, around their home – Regina [Video]

Some Regina seniors are sounding the alarm over a lack of safety measures in and around their home and are calling on the province for help.

Marlene Robins is a current resident of the Mary Helen Herchmer, a seniors housing unit complex that consists of more than 100 units. Robins started a petition signed by 85 tenants regarding safety concerns in their building and near their complex.

“We get intruders in that somehow get in and sleep in the stairwell,” she said. “In February, what we call a harpoon, which was discovered at eight in the morning. It was the knife attached to a broomstick…. Then we had unspent gun shells, and we had an intruder who jimmied the front door with a dummy bar, and he was found on the ninth floor. He was escorted out of the building by the police.”

Robins said an assault also happened on …