Please donate coats so cops don’t have to buy them for homeless people
posted: November 5, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: downtown, homeless needs, police, you can help
I found out yesterday that downtown police officers have been spending their own money to BUY coats for homeless people. Wow. My first response was thankfulness and gratitude. My second response was that cops should not have to be buying coats for homeless people! They should be getting them free!
So I called the Major at […]
‘If it wasn’t for police, we’d freeze to death’
posted: October 28, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: downtown, homeless needs, homeless news, police, stories, winter shelter
Fox8 interviewed some of our homeless friends (Mississippi, Junior and Bobby) and one of the GPD cops we partner with (Tim Tepedino) about the freezing temperatures and the lack of shelter. (Story, video.)
Junior said:
“If it wasn’t for police officers coming down here helping homeless people right here, we’d be freezing ourselves to death.”
I’ve been bringing […]
Homeless: Discharged to the street in Greensboro
posted: September 19, 2008 | category: community, homelessness
tags: downtown, Food Not Bombs, free meals, Greensboro, homeless news, police, policy, stories, Ten Year Plan
On Thursday afternoon, I went by to see friends on the block, at Lee and Eugene, and to let them know about dinner at the HIVE. One of my friends asked for help for his friend, who had just gotten out of the hospital. He’d had major surgery, and then been discharged back to the […]
Read More..>>Center City Park: Homeless in the morning
posted: September 8, 2008 | category: homelessness
tags: Center City Park, day center, downtown, Greensboro, homeless news
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 […]
Read More..>>The best part about downtown Greensboro at night
posted: August 30, 2008 | category: community
tags: downtown, Greensboro
The free fireworks show at the baseball stadium:
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Note: The fireworks look a lot better in real life than they do in my camera-phone photos. But still, you get the general idea…
Ganache on Thursdays
posted: August 30, 2008 | category: community
tags: ConvergeSouth, downtown, Greensboro
Lately, I’ve been meeting the girls at Ganache on Thursday evenings for a little chill time. They have a buy one, get one free deal on appetizers Monday through Friday evenings from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., with daily appetizer and drink specials. On Thursday nights, there’s live music and half-price wine by […]
Read More..>>DayWatch
posted: August 29, 2008 | category: community, faith, homelessness
tags: downtown, events, free meals, Greensboro, homeless needs, homeless news, hunger, you can help
We’re doing a DayWatch on Saturday, August 30th at 4:00 p.m., outside at the YWCA, behind the downtown library. We expect to feed between 150-200 currently and formerly homeless friends, and whomever else shows up hungry! We’re having beef stew with rice and green beans, biscuits, watermelon and cookies for dessert. We’ll […]
Read More..>>Cops: More downtown good problems
posted: August 25, 2008 | category: community
tags: alcohol, crack cocaine, crime, downtown, Greensboro, police, politics
About an hour after this, police downtown stopped a car on Elm Street for an open container violation. Somebody in the car had an open bottle of liquor. That led to powder and crack cocaine charges. Other officers stopped the next car in line, also for open container. That led to […]
Read More..>>The popo reports on the good problem we have downtown
posted: August 24, 2008 | category: community
tags: alcohol, crime, downtown, Greensboro, news, police, politics
A cop’s take on Greensboro’s “good problem to have” — our partylicious downtown on a weekend night, shortly before midnight:
“We’re charging people with smoking marijuana. We got a line of traffic that’s not moving. We’ve got clubs that have radios louder than the cars that are driving past. We were trying to […]
Friday night dinner
posted: August 17, 2008 | category: community, faith, homelessness
tags: downtown, Food Not Bombs, free meals, Greensboro, homeless needs, hunger, police
Tim, Lowell and I spent Friday afternoon in the kitchen of the Salvation Army church cooking and preparing the evening meal. Tim and Lowell cook regularly for Food Not Bombs, and they are pros in the kitchen.
We cooked/prepared/baked: baked beans, baked yams, barbecued pork chops, chicken and pasta, pasta and vegetables, mixed green salad, cakes […]
