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“I slept like a dream,” she said. “The bed was like heaven.” Kim Berg at Oppenheimer Park last year. Oppenheimer, in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, was cleared on May 9, 2020, of campers. Photo by Jason Payne /PNG
Before moving Thursday into social housing in the nearby Downtown Eastside, Berg spent most of the past year sleeping in Strathcona Park. She won’t miss it.
The order issued earlier this month by Vancouver park board general manager Donnie Rosa listed Friday at 10 a.m. as the deadline for all tents and structures to be removed from Strathcona. But none of the people involved expected anything dramatic to happen at 10:01 a.m. No court injunction is currently in place, but that is a future possibility if people refuse offers of housing and remain in the park.