

Coors Light gave us that, you don't think there were drugs there?" Sauvageau said. "Biggest party town in Canada two years in a row. "My safety is my priority, my family's safety, my grandchildren's safety," protester Wendy Sauvageau told CTV News Edmonton.Īlthough Lacombe County councillors have approved first and second reading of a bylaw that would allow the centre to open, Sauvageau feels the busy vacation town is not the right place. Protesters held signs with one reading "save the children" and another referring to the facility as a "rehab jail court." Twelve women at a time would be staying at the centre.


The Lakeside Recovery Centre proposal would see the creation of a 90-day drug and alcohol treatment program on a 32-hectare (80 acre) property on Township Road 392. Dozens of protesters lined a road near Sylvan Lake, Alta., Monday over concerns that opening a new recovery centre on the outskirts of town will be a danger to the area.
