StreetWatch May 17-24, 2012: GPD, baseball, community garden, tent city, homeless bunny & more!
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Don Ames’ clock on display at IRC First Friday
UPDATE: Good news! As of October 2011, Don Ames is no longer homeless!! From the IRC, Greensboro’s homeless day center: The Interactive Resource Center will once again offer art, music and refreshments on August 5 as part of downtown Greensboro’s monthly First Friday celebration. Featured artist this month will be … > read more
Greenway progress leaves wood chips and memories at site of former homeless camps
I just received texts from a homeless friend who lives in a camp near the site of the next phase of Greensboro’s Downtown Greenway. A number of homeless camps in the path of the Greenway were cleared prior to construction. Homeless people have been living on the heavily wooded property … > read more
On the radio: “Help & Hope for the Homeless”
The Interactive Resource Center, Greensboro’s day center offering “help and hope for those experiencing homelessness”, is the topic of discussion on WUNC’s “The State of Things” on 12/08/2010. On the show “Help & Hope for the Homeless”, host Frank Stasio talks with author and News & Record columnist Lorraine Ahearn; … > read more
“In the city’s path” — Homeless move for Greenway
In the city’s path Saturday, March 6, 2010 By Lorraine Ahearn GREENSBORO – 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. Served notice that heavy equipment will soon be brought in for soil sampling, five … > read more
WGHP Video: Homeless & living in the woods
FOX8′s Roxanna Haynes came along with me and Derek Dunham on StreetWatch.
When there’s nowhere to go
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: My ministry partner, Audrie Keen, and I provide a street outreach to the homeless in Greensboro, … > read more
N&R Editorial: Clearing out The Block
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. Through a series of 30-minute patrols, officers shooed away the clusters of mostly men who routinely gather at the … > read more
Alston meets with residents & Chief Bellamy clears “The block”
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 … > read more
Greenway construction could raze homeless camps within a month
“Whether they go is not an option; how and when they go is up to them.” A source tells me that construction on the next phase of the Downtown Greenway could begin as soon as mid-November. Installation of traffic lights on Lee Street could be completed by the end of … > read more