Capostinsky Wins Provincial Award

Saturday, October 04, 2008 12:45 PM

Prince George, B.C. - New Hope Society Executive Director Christal Capostinsky has won the Crime Prevention and Community Safety Award handed out by BC's Solicitor General. Capostinsky was one of 19 society and business leaders, volunteers, groups and police officers receiving recognition.

"These individuals and groups have dedicated countless hours and taken personal responsibility for making their communities better places to live and their efforts are laudable," said Attorney General Wally Oppal, who presented the awards on behalf of Solicitor General John van Dongen.

"The public and their colleagues throughout the justice system benefit from these community-led, volunteer efforts."

Capostinsky founded the Prince George New Hope Society in 2005 to bridge the gap in services and security for sex workers and women. She has worked tirelessly for years to reduce harm and victimization faced by sex workers and sexually exploited youth.

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Posted on Saturday, October 04, 2008 12:45 PM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: REALIST on October 4 2008 3:13 PM

Christal is one of the few who understands the problems and presents logical and practical solutions. Congratulations Friend to well earned recognition!

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on October 4 2008 5:49 PM

Legalize prostition, licence, inspect and monitor. End of problem.

Posted by: REALIST on October 4 2008 9:18 PM

This is why you did not win an award.

Posted by: downnotout on October 5 2008 5:59 PM

prostition is going to be around for a long long time. The best that we can do is to make sure that the girls that are working do so in a safe envirorment. Keep the pimps and other groups out of it and if that means legalising it and providing safe houses for them to work out off than maybe that should be something that we should look at.

Posted by: metalman on October 6 2008 7:06 AM

Yama has it right. Just like marijuana, leagalize it, tax it. Net benefit government gets more tax, organized crime loses some business (and finds something else to line their filthy pockets and degrade society)
metalman.