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“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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Tonight’s yummy dinner from Food Not Bombs:
Serving at 6:00 p.m. at the downtown public library. Garden salad, fruit salad, macaroni and cheese, bread, and more. Donated food, cooked by volunteers, served free!
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Rock is cooking for Food Not Bombs at the HIVE at 5:30 today – ham, fried chicken, macaroni & cheese, potato salad, cornbread, etc… YUM!!
Councilwoman Goldie Wells was here at FNB dinner earlier, Mayor is here now talking to homeless folks and advocates; small group, laid back
A homeless man, Ronald Wrenn, was hit by a car on Friday night while crossing South Eugene Street on his way to the Salvation Army Center of Hope’s emergency overflow night shelter. He died shortly afterward** at Moses Cone Hospital. I found out just after it happened from our church’s outreach director, Marshall, who’d talked to the downtown cops that we do street outreach with. They’d just been at the scene of the accident. I went by the hospital later to check on him and found out that he’d died. Family members had already been notified. I had posted a message to Facebook earlier, asking all our friends to pray for him, but I waited to blog about it because the information had not yet been released to the public. It was posted on the web site of the News & Record a little while ago, so I’m posting it now, too.
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Food Not Bombs will serve at 5:00 p.m. (instead of 6:00 p.m.) this coming Monday, January 26th, in the Nussbaum Room of the Central Library in downtown Greensboro. Immediately following dinner, poet Glenis Redmond will be leading a workshop as part of the monthly Monday Night Poetry series. Everyone is invited to stay after the dinner and participate.
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StreetWatch would like to thank everyone who donated, volunteered or otherwise assisted in providing meals for our homeless and hungry friends from Oct. 30th – Nov. 13th, 2008 while the Arlington House was closed.
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This past February I wrote a post about my friend Anthony speaking at City Council. Anthony and his wife were homeless at the time, and he told Council about their struggles to find shelter and assistance through agencies that serve the homeless in Greensboro. This followed a Food Not Bombs dinner and meeting at the library the night before with Council members Bellamy-Small, Wells and Matheny, during which they encouraged homeless residents to come and share their stories with Council and the public — which Anthony courageously did. (Video here.)
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Tonight was the Food Not Bombs dinner at the HIVE. A lot of the people who eat at the FNB dinners are homeless, and some are formerly homeless. Tonight, one of my formerly homeless friends came and brought her daughter. They went in the kitchen and got out the biggest serving bowls, then came back to the meeting space and pulled out huge bags of candy that they’d brought with them, and began filling the bowls. There are lots of Glenwood neighborhood kids at the HIVE and at the FNB dinners. You should have seen their eyes! My friend and her daughter passed out candy to the kids and to all the adults. I got a Milky Way. It was so good.
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The Homeless Hospitality House on Arlington Street has closed again, this time until Nov. 13th, due to the director’s health concerns. Please pray with us for Miss Terry’s speedy recovery, and for a time of rest and healing. We love you and appreciate you, Miss Terry.
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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 by herself a bit. She’s a little shy around people that she doesn’t know. He jokingly called her “the diva.” And when I saw him at the park this week, he immediately asked me, with a big smile, where my friend “the diva” was.
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