Commemorate This, Greensboro
My BFF and I went to the Green Bean this morning after the gym for a quick coffee. We sat by the front window. We saw two trains and 11 homeless friends. And I wondered aloud, “When are we ever going to get a day center?”
Afterwards, we drove by the downtown library and checked out the sunroom. Every seat was full. I recognized most of the folks.
It doesn’t look like we’ll have a day center anytime soon, but you can bet somebody’ll spend a lot of dollars throwing a big birthday bash for Greensboro’s bicentennial. The year, and the party, will be here and gone. And I bet that next January we can still sit in Green Bean and count a bunch of homeless people walking by on their way to nowhere. I hope not. But I would still bet on it, if I was a betting kind of girl.
P.S. The Tate Street folk got “counted” yesterday. (And then there’s the hundreds of homeless friends I didn’t run into either day…) A centrally located day center would bless everybody.
January 7th, 2008 at 11:16 am
I had this very same thought a few days ago… If the city isn’t going to support it, maybe it’d be beneficial to start networking with some folks who’d be supportive of an independent non-profit. It’d be a huge venture, but I believe there are people in the ‘Boro who’d support it financially, as well as help develop a plan to get it started.
January 4th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
“In the meantime the cost to the community for not having day centers is higher than the cost of a day center would ever be.”
Word.
January 4th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Seems like there’s always money for war parties, war and parties, but never any money for those in need.
In the meantime the cost to the community for not having day centers is higher than the cost of a day center would ever be.
And our current crop of local politricksters are no better than last year’s crop– rotting on the vine.