Archive for July, 2008
Donate toys for homeless kids in High Point
posted: July 28, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: homeless needs, youth
Via email, from Partnering to End Chronic Homelessness:
The United Way of Greater High Point, is holding their Annual Toy Drive for Homeless and Foster Care children. Financial and toy donations should be sent or delivered to the United Way of Greater High Point office, located at 201 Church Street in High Point, or the management […]
GPD on Segways: Losing cool points
posted: July 23, 2008 | category: community
tags: news, police
When I found out from friends at GPD that developer Roy Caroll was donating two Segways to the CCRT (downtown bike cops), I had to laugh. And I promised to make fun of them when they got their Segways. Actually, I didn’t wait. I went ahead and teased them about it right then. […]
Read More..>>Post about the DNC and Denver’s homeless gets a response
posted: July 22, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: homeless news, politics
A couple of days ago, I wrote a post about the reaction to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless’ plans to give free movie tickets and bus passes to homeless people during the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver. The next day, I received an email through my web site’s contact form, which begins:
“We […]
The DNC & Denver’s homeless: hiding or helping?
posted: July 20, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: Food Not Bombs, homeless news, politics
The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless says that free movie tickets and bus tokens won’t be used to hide Denver’s homeless during the upcoming Democratic National Convention, but will instead be offered as “an escape from the heat or the activities of the convention or the security procedures.”
But some folks remain unconvinced:
“It just sounds like […]
darkness and light
posted: July 18, 2008 | category: faith
tags:
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
– Og Mandino
This is for friends who are going through some valleys right now, and for those of us who need a little rest and healing. And for you, too, if you […]
The “worthy” homeless
posted: July 16, 2008 | category: homelessness, mental health, substance abuse
tags: alcohol, crack cocaine, panhandling
A few days ago, I wrote a post in response to a News & Record story about Mark Hoffman, a mentally ill homeless man who used to sit on a bench near a church in Greensboro, but now sits on a bench by a church in Catonsville, Maryland — his hometown.
Here’s what Sam Spagnola wrote […]
You can go home again: Kimberly finds her dad
posted: July 13, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: homeless news, lyrics, music, stories, video
Sometime in May, a homeless man named Mark Hoffman left his park bench near Friendly Shopping Center and Centenary United Methodist Church in Greensboro. His absence caused much concern to the many people who had grown accustomed to seeing him over the years, sitting on “his” bench or attending services at the church or […]
Read More..>>Knives don’t kill people, people kill people
posted: July 12, 2008 | category: community
tags: crime
From MSN/UK:
“The number of fatal stabbings in London this year has risen to over 50 with four more cases in a single day, but Scotland Yard said on Friday the city is not suffering an epidemic of knife crime. One of the latest victims to die in four separate incidents in London on Thursday […]
July 10th news update: homelessness, day center, cops and more
posted: July 10, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: day center, downtown, Greensboro, homeless news, housing first, police
Random thoughts and updates for this week:
1.) I’m very thankful for the “housing first” initiative that is moving chronically homeless people from the street to permanent housing, but… I’m growing increasingly frustrated with the all-too-frequent staff and program changes among community support providers, as well as the limitations of available mental health services. […]
ok, so this…
posted: July 9, 2008 | category: faith, mental health
tags: depression, music
“…I needed something to hang onto, something that would speak to the very depths of my soul in a way that I understood, in a way that my woundedness would accept. It wasn’t a bible verse, it wasn’t a sacred hymn, it wasn’t a sermon or a worship song or anything you might expect it […]
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