Jeri Rowe writes about Gail Haworth, the coordinator for Greensboro’s homeless count, sponsored by the Homeless Prevention Coalition of Guilford County. Joseph Rodriguez took some photos during the count. And JR asks, “Are we doing enough to help the homeless?”
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Professor Wharton and Suzanne post about Glenwood. Dissonance.
I was packing a box of donated food the other day, to give to a homeless couple who are currently staying in a hotel, and I couldn’t find a lot of the kinds of things they needed. And I realized that people who donate food are probably just thinking “canned” or “non-perishable.” Here are a few more things to think about when donating food to a food pantry or a homeless ministry:
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“They may be out there, but there’s not many of them out there… If you know where there’s a veteran sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately and we’ll make sure that man does not do it.”
– Bill O’Reilly, “The O’Reilly Factor,” Fox News
Read more on O’Reilly v. Edwards: The truth about homeless veterans…
For the past couple of weeks, the NightWatch team has been making a stop in the parking lot of a local hotel that is “home” for many folks who might otherwise be on the street. And a lot of them are back outside when their money — or someone else’s generosity — runs out. This week, the team saw a lot of kids at the hotel. We keep some toys on the truck to give to children, but last night, the kids didn’t ask for toys. Each of them had the same request:
Read more on Homeless kids ask for blankets, not toys…
From Yahoo News, emailed to me by an about-to-not-be-homeless-anymore (yay!) friend:
“A judge on Thursday ordered a Salvation Army worker who stole a holiday kettle containing about $250 to spend the night homeless…”
Read more on Sentenced to homelessness…
From Jen Bergman at National Network for Youth
CHAMPIONS OF RUNAWAY AND HOMELESS YOUTH RECEIVE NATIONAL HONORS
VIRGIN MOBILE RECEIVES GOLDEN PEN AWARDREPRESENTATIVE RUBEN HINOJOSA AND XM RADIO NAMED “CHAMPIONS OF YOUTH”
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Anna addresses profanity and the emergent church:
“Apparently, in many Emergent church circles, it is cool to be ‘free’ to swear like everyone else….”
Who knew?
“God certainly thought Words Mean Things. He gave a commandment about the verbal mis-use of His Name. Jesus backed this up with telling us that even calling our brother a fool was a [rightly used] damnable offense. Of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
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Liz sat down with our friend Tim, who’s been homeless for about six years, and talked about his experience of homelessness in Greensboro. She transcribed the conversation on her blog. It’s at bottom of this post, and it starts like this:
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Current and former tenants of Greensboro’s South Pointe Apartments are suing the owners and managers of the complex “for damages due to the Defendants’ failure to repair the premises and to put and keep them in a decent, safe and sanitary condition, while continuing to demand and collect rent from the Plaintiffs.” (View complaint here.) South Pointe’s owners made news in the fall of 2006 for having the second highest number of housing units in Greensboro with code violations.
Read more on Tenants sue Shannon Enterprises and Alliance Management over housing conditions…
Last Saturday, my son and I went along with a group of high schoolers from Westover Church to do street outreach to homeless people in downtown Greensboro. The teens distributed dozens of pairs of thermal underwear, bottled wear, snacks and toiletries in a parking lot at the corner of Lee and Eugene, near one of the shelters. The thermals — very popular and very needed in the freezing weather — were gone in no time.
Read more on High schoolers reach out to homeless in downtown Greensboro…
With forecast temps in the 20’s tonight and the teens tomorrow night, unsheltered homeless folks could die sleeping outside:
In the United States, hypothermia is primarily an urban phenomenon associated with alcoholism, drug addiction, mental illness, and cold-water immersion accidents. The victims are often homeless male alcoholics. (source)