Crime

For over 10 years, the Chisholm Hills neighborhood went pretty much without any crimes. Since our neighborhood was turned into the entry to an industrial zone, we have had two burglaries, one attempted burglary, an incident of sex in the street by workers from the adjacent industrial zone, vandalism of 3 sets of speed bumps, and our Children at Play sign knocked down. We have had vagrants sleeping on the side of the road on our neighborhood streets. These are some of the incidents I personally know about within Chisholm Heights. There may be others incidents that I have not heard about.

We don't know the backgrounds of the drivers of the hundred trucks and other vehicles seen daily in our neighborhood and several neighbors have reported trucks stopping behind their house and staring in their windows at their wives and children.

Truck Drivers have made false accusations of rock throwing incidents which have even made the local newspaper. Some of those accused of this were not even home at the time they were reported to have committed the deed.

One truck driver was also seen exiting her vehicle and yelling at neighbors standing in their own yards.

All of us have had our close calls with the tank trucks and oversized rig vehicles at the low water crossings where the county road gets really narrow.

Encana's response is that the neighbors need to just calm down. Encana Community Relations stated there is no evidence that their drilling activities and truck traffic have caused any increase of crime in our neighborhood. Most of us would beg to differ.

01/21/09 A group of neighbors met with the Sheriff and he confirmed the burglary suspects are in custody.