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Basil from the diva’s garden

posted: October 13, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
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Recently, my girlfriends and I stopped by Center City Park after having dinner downtown. We ran into some of my homeless friends, and I introduced everyone and we hung out for a while and talked. Then one of my homeless friends pointed out that one of my girlfriends was kind of sitting off […]

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Center City Park: Homeless in the morning

posted: September 8, 2008 | category: homelessness
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I drove kid #1 to the courthouse for jury duty, and I have a couple of hours until my first client appointment, so I’m working outside at Center City Park. I have coffee and they have free wifi. It’s a beautiful morning. Several of my homeless friends were already here when I […]

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Saturday night at the park: Scrabble, Perrier & homelessness

posted: May 19, 2008 | category: homelessness
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I spent Saturday night drinking Perrier and playing Scrabble by the fountains at Center City Park with LV. Despite my degrees in English and Communication, he still beats me every time we play. Apparently, the U.S. military trained him well for epic territorial domination and strategic mind-gaming.
We saw two homeless […]

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Peace Walk Video Slideshow

posted: October 22, 2007 | category: Uncategorized
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Images from Peace With Every Step, October 21, 2007. Audio: “War,” by Edwin Starr. Related post is here.
These photos are also in my image gallery, here.
>> News & Record coverage. >> Fox8 coverage, with video.
Peace means different things to different people. For me, it’s like this: Know Jesus, know […]

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Peace Walk

posted: October 17, 2007 | category: Uncategorized
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From John D. Young:
PEACE
with every step
A spiritual, mindful, reflective walk
for peace in our lives, our community, in
Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in the world.
SUNDAY, Oct. 21st
following Friendly Avenue from
Guilford College to downtown Greensboro
Join from 2 key starting points:
1:00 p.m. New Garden Friends Meeting
2:30 pm First Friends Meeting
(or at any point along the way)
Gathering at 4 […]

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PoPos Pop Park Panhandler

posted: August 10, 2007 | category: homelessness
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Via email (from a currently homeless reader):
“…a homeless person… was ticketed last night at Center City Park for illegal panhandling. He has no panhandling permit and he was well outside of the approved hours for panhandling according to the bike patrol officer that noted he observed [the homeless person] hit on everyone in the […]

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A Walk In The Park

posted: August 6, 2007 | category: homelessness
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Center City Park’s operations manager, Johnny Burris responded today to this post about security at the park. Burris says:
To my knowledge, no one from the City or any other entity has asked Lankford Security to “gather information” on who is using the Park or to perform any other work at the Park. […]

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Securing City Center Park

posted: August 3, 2007 | category: homelessness
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Via email, from a homeless friend and reader:
2007-07-30. Oh, you will be interested to know that Lankford Security, who has a contract with Greensboro to patrol the Governmental Plaza and the Gaylon Depot, sent an armed guard at 23:15 to Center City Park for a walk-through. He did not make anyone leave, so […]

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Center City Park Euphemisms for Homelessness

posted: December 11, 2006 | category: homelessness
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Despite lots of folks’ coordinated and best efforts to run them all off, there are still homeless people downtown, and so, you know, uh oh…
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Dear Center City Park Homeless-Avoidance Wordsmithing Committee,
WOW.
Sincerely,
Cara Michele
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From sign marked “RULES AND REGULATIONS” at Center City Park in downtown Greensboro:
“Camping is prohibited […]

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Bathrooms for the Homeless for $250,000? Or Less…

posted: December 9, 2006 | category: homelessness
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One of the most common problems I hear about from unsheltered homeless people in Greensboro is the lack of access to a bathroom. No home = no bathroom. Often, homeless people are barred from using bathrooms in businesses. So they have to go outside. And that frequently leads to a citation […]

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