UPDATE, 11.17am: Police report that Summer has been found “safe and well”.
SUMMER Roche, age nine, has not been seen or heard from since 7.30pm on Wednesday (May 4). Her mother has reported her missing, and Summer was last seen in Florey.
She is described as being of Caucasian appearance, 140cm (4’6″) tall, with long dark brown hair (with a purple tint), brown eyes, a left side nose ring and she is of slim build.
Summer was last seen wearing a long sleeve black Adidas branded shirt, camouflage Adidas tracksuit pants and white Nike shoes.
She was reported missing by her mother, and police hold concerns for Summer’s mental health and welfare.
Summer knows how to utilise the Belconnen bus route and knows her war around Belconnen Mall and Florey Shops.
Police are requesting the public’s assistance in locating her.
Anyone with information that could assist police is urged to contact ACT Policing Operations on 131 444.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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