Na Lee packed up his personal belongings Thursday morning, placing them on a tarp so he could move before city crews cleared away the tent he lived in on St. Paul’s East Side.
He collected a sleeping bag and a box of rocks he had gathered along nearby railroad tracks, among other personal items. Lee was one of dozens of residents forced to leave a homeless encampment near the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary that was home to several Hmong and Southeast Asian residents.
“It’s saddening that we have to leave,” Lee said of the encampment where he lived for the last six months…