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In the city’s path
Saturday, March 6, 2010
By Lorraine AhearnGREENSBORO – Two paths converged in a not-so-distant wood this week: the $26 million Downtown Greenway, and a longtime homeless “tent city” in its way.
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Americorps is at the downtown library with chili for the homeless. StreetWatch has blankets & coats. http://tweetphoto.com/8879371
StreetWatch just did a vigil for National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day in downtown GSO. Thanks @WXII for coming out to remember with us!
treetWatch just did a vigil for National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day in downtown GSO. Thanks @WXII for coming out to remember with us!
FOX8’s Roxanna Haynes came along with me and Derek Dunham on StreetWatch.
“Greensboro Urban Ministry, NightWatch, StreetWatch – wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t survive.” – Yong, homeless, lives in a tent downtown
DayWatch, October 2008; image credit: Michele Forrest
There will be a DayWatch event for the homeless and hungry on Saturday, November 21, 2009, outside by the downtown library. A hot meal will be served to guests around 5:00 p.m., and volunteers will distribute clothing, blankets, hats, gloves, socks, hygiene kits and snack bags. Pastors from Mosaic Church will offer a message.
Read more on DayWatch for the hungry and homeless: Saturday, 11/21/2009…
I wrote about the guys on the block (and more) for the News & Record: “When there’s nowhere to go,” by Michele Forrest; published Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. It’s online here, and reposted below:
On the block. Image credit: Michele Forrest / ChosenFast.com
My ministry partner, Audrie Keen, and I provide a street outreach to the homeless in Greensboro, and we’ve made a lot of friends along the way. We eat together, go to church together and have cookouts. Sometimes our homeless friends stay with us. We visit formerly homeless friends in their homes.
When we say “homeless friends,” we really mean friends.
Two Friday mornings ago, we visited “The Block” at Lee and South Eugene streets. It had been 11 days since my last visit, when we’d talked about the artistic bench installed, then removed, from along the new stretch of the Downtown Greenway in that area. Neighbors said the bench attracted drug addicts and prostitutes.
The guys on The Block dismissed that notion. One said: “The problem is not as serious as they say it is on the news. And the bench has nothing to do with it.”
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First Presbyterian Church
617 North Elm Street
Downtown Greensboro
Entrance to Clinic is on Greene Street, between Fisher Park Circle and Fisher Avenue. The GTA Route 3 bus stops at the intersection of Elm Street and Fisher Ave.
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Good editorial in today’s News & Record: “Clearing out The Block”:
Greensboro police last week stepped up loitering enforcement and effectively cleared the place known as “The Block.” Just like that.
Read more on N&R Editorial: Clearing out The Block…
My ministry partner took this photo at the entrance to the Greenway, near the block. Image credit: Audrie Keen
Two days ago, I wrote about “the block” at Lee and Eugene Streets being empty. The block is a long-time gathering spot where folks, many of them homeless, are known to loiter and drink. A friend, who catches a bus just down the sidewalk, had contacted me to tell me that police had cleared everybody out.
Read more on Did it take a Greenway to clear the block?…
"The block" at Lee & Eugene Streest; image credit: News & Record
A friend contacted me yesterday to tell me that police were no longer allowing people to stand on “the block,” a well-known and long-time gathering spot at the corner of Lee and Eugene Streets near the homeless shelter, soup kitchen and health clinic. Traditionally, most of the people who stood out on the corner were homeless, and many of them spent their time on the block drinking. Today, I received reports from a number of sources with information about what may have led to the clearing of the block.
Read more on Alston meets with residents; Bellamy clears block; day center gets $275K…