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On Saturday, June 27, 2009, my ministry partner, Audrie Keen and I, along with our friends Lavaughn and Lee, participated in an Americorps homeless camp cleanup. The camp we cleaned was one of several in an area that lies in the path of Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway. I recently learned, through an email from an Action Greensboro intern, that the greenway will “displace those living in this area.” Meaning that, if all goes according to plan, our homeless friends will soon be even homeless-er. Hmmm… Guess we need another plan then, don’t we?

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Via email, from Action Greensboro:

“… As you may know, Action Greensboro is spearheading a public/private partnership to create a Downtown Greenway…

Construction… will displace those living in this area…”

Cotton

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Via email, from Action Greensboro:

“… As you may know, Action Greensboro is spearheading a public/private partnership to create a Downtown Greenway…

Construction… will displace those living in this area…”

Yeung

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Via email, from Action Greensboro:

“… As you may know, Action Greensboro is spearheading a public/private partnership to create a Downtown Greenway…

Construction… will displace those living in this area…”

Keith

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Via email, from Action Greensboro:

“… As you may know, Action Greensboro is spearheading a public/private partnership to create a Downtown Greenway…

Construction… will displace those living in this area…”

Mark

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Via email, from Action Greensboro:

“… As you may know, Action Greensboro is spearheading a public/private partnership to create a Downtown Greenway…

Construction… will displace those living in this area…”

Manuel

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Greensboro’s Food Not Bombs now has a Google Group and Facebook group.  Please join us!

» Join the Greensboro Food Not Bombs Google Group

» Join the Greensboro Food Not Bombs Facebook group

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The Myrtle Beach City Council has placed serious restrictions on group that feed the homeless in city (public) parks.  Church groups are currently feeding the homeless and hungry in obedience to their faith — weekly in one park and monthly in another.  A new ordinance will require them to obtain a permit and restrict feedings to four times per year.  The ordinance is a response to  neighbors’ complaints, such as perceived safety issues for children  in the park, and crimes alleged to have been committed by some of the homeless people in the parks.  But those who serve the homeless point out that children are among those being fed (children and families are homeless, too), and that homeless people will be in the parks whether meals are served or not.

Read more on Myrtle Beach restricts church groups from feeding homeless people in public parks…

“Taser the homeless.”

Word is spreading about that disturbing suggestion, which came from an unidentified woman who owns or works for a business on South Elm Street in downtown Greensboro.  She attended a problem-solving meeting on May 18th with District 3 Council rep Zack Matheny and City staff, to discuss parking-related issues in the 300 block of South Elm Street.

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Seven months of the year have 31 days — January, March, May, July, August, October, and December.  The book of Proverbs has 31 chapters.  Read a chapter a day and see how your life changes.  Why read Proverbs?

Read more on One a day can change your life…

A local blogger who likes to send me links to often unflattering articles about homeless or poor people emailed me this today:

Recently Michelle Obama went to serve food to the homeless at a government funded soup kitchen .

Read more on Making assumptions: Michelle Obama, a soup kitchen and a guy with a BlackBerry…

Living with mental illness is hard. But having caring, supportive relationships in your life is a comfort and a help. Volunteers with the Mental Health Association in Greensboro’s Compeer program provide those relationships. What a blessing that is.

Read more on Compeers: Caring relationships provide support for people with mental illness…