From the Guilford County Task Force to End Homelessness web site:
Presentation of Guilford County’s Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness Read More
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners invites you to the presentation of the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness developed by the Guilford County Task Force on Ending Homelessness.
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T. Dianne Bellamy-Small, responding to a fellow City Council member’s allegation that she gave away too many free city bus passes:
“I gave the passes to schools in my district for parents who had no transportation to come see about their children. I gave them to agencies that had poor people who often ask staff for money to get back home like students at GTCC. I gave the passes to homeless people to encourage them to go to Welfare Reform or Workforce Development or to DSS to get help. I gave the passes to a teenage homeless shelter to encourage the teens to be independent to go look for a job and a drug treatment center. I requested 30 passes for staff and students at the A&T High School Summer Transportation Institute so that the students could experience our transit system and take a tour of the Depot. I gave 4 to a cancer patient who needed someone to ride the bus with her because she can not ride the bus by herself after her treatment. I gave the passes to people I saw standing in the rain or the hot sun waiting for the bus just to help. I asked nothing in return I did not even identify who I was because it is not about me.”
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It was painted across the doorway leading to a dirty and disheveled cellar where some of my homeless friends slept, in a house on Cedar Street. As I stood staring up at those words, my face must have registered the sadness I felt, because one of the guys laughed nervously and said, “It’s just a joke.” Maybe then. Not anymore.
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As we headed back to our cars around 2:00 a.m., after a night of street outreach, our NightWatch van rolled through the intersection of Lee and Eugene — “the block.” And then we saw them, on the sidewalk. People. Homeless people. Sleeping on the sidewalk. Outside the homeless shelter.
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The week-long Congressional Food Stamp Challenge has ended:
“From May 15-21, 2007, U.S. Members of Congress will live on a food stamp budget. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average food stamp benefit is approximately $3 a day.
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The following notice of public hearing appeared in the News & Record, Monday, May 21, 2007:
PUBLIC HEARING
2007 -2008 CITY OF GREENSBORO
FUNDING FOR HOMELESSNESS PREVENTIONThe Greensboro City Council conducted a public hearing on May 1, 2007 and voted to submit the Dept. of Housing & Community Development’s (HCD) 2007-08 Annual Plan application to HUD. The application sets aside approximately $726,000 for programs and services to prevent homelessness. Roughly $520,000 of the set-aside was designated for a Request for Proposals (RFP) process for Greensboro member agencies of the Homeless Prevention Coalition of Guilford County. Greensboro’s Community Resource Board (CRB) invites comments from persons who responded to the RFP and from other interested persons during a public hearing scheduled for:
Read more on City To Hold Public Hearing On $726K Homeless Funds…
On March 29, 2007, the Guilford County Task Force to End (Chronic) Homelessness, of which I am a member, agreed on the final draft of our Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness for Greensboro, High Point and Guilford County. This was to be followed by a presentation to the City Councils of High Point and Greensboro and to the Guilford County Commissioners, and then a public presentation of the plan, to include dignitaries and “important people,” such as Philip Mangano, Executive Director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness. (I also suggested that we invite some real, live homeless people.)
Read more on Tick Tock… Where’s Our Ten Year Plan?…
When the City of Greensboro foreclosed on St. James II in 2005, Sarah Graham of Christian Counseling and Wellness Group made it clear that she believed there were powerful people in the city who had another agenda for that property.
Read more on St. James II Redux: Agendas…
Joel Gillespie on “just saying ‘no’ to hate crime legislation.”
“Is a murder victim more or less dead whether the source of hatred was racism or envy? Is a criminal more or less dead when they get the needle because they killed out of hatred? Is it more wrong for a group of red necks to kill a gay guy than it is for a group of gang members to kill a member of another gang? Is it more wrong to kill a person because he is black than it is to kill a person because he got a promotion and you didn’t? Is it more wrong to kill a person because he is handicapped than it is to kill a person because he stole your girl friend? I don’t think so. Is the murderer more guilty of murder because he murdered out of hatred? No.”
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Quotes from Mother Teresa:
To children and to the poor, to all those who suffer and are lonely, give them always a happy smile; give them not only your care but also your heart. We may not be able to give much, but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is filled with love.
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I attended North Carolina’s homeless conference last month, but my carpool left before the awards luncheon, so until I saw it in an NC DHHS newsletter this week, I didn’t know that Greensboro’s Westover Church had received the Outstanding Congregation Award.
Read more on Westover Named “Outstanding Congregation” At State Homeless Conference…
I interrupt my previously scheduled, serious blog about homelessness to bring you the following disturbing image of my most favorite and beloved cartoon character:
Wow. Girlfriend is dressed for the wrong kind of success.
