Spring 2025 may be the earliest an overflow shelter in a former church on Sarnia’s Exmouth Street will shut down.

That’s according to Melissa Fitzpatrick, the county’s general manager of social services, in response to a question from Sarnia Coun. Chrissy McRoberts during a county council meeting Wednesday about the shelter which has been a source of complaints from neighbours.

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“Our intension is to maintain the overflow shelter . . . through the winter,” Fitzpatrick said.

“We haven’t identified an exact closure date yet,” she said. “We would hope, come springtime, we’ll be in a position to look at perhaps winding it down.”

The overflow shelter opened in March 2023 in the former Laurel Lea-St. Matthew’s Presbyterian Church on Exmouth Street and is run by the Inn of t

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