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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!!
winter shelter ends, 2008
03/15/2008: “The cold weather shelter programs at both homeless shelters ended yesterday…”
Every year, Greensboro Urban Ministry and Salvation Army open winter emergency overflow programs, in addition to their year-round shelter beds, to keep homeless people from freezing to death sleeping outside. And every year, those winter shelter programs close as winter ends. Salvation Army closes winter shelter on March 15th. Greensboro Urban Ministry closes winter shelter when the dangerous temperatures end. Every year, homeless people go back outside as the weather warms up.
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If you’re in Greensboro and you’ve signed up for winter shelter at the HIVE, First Presbyterian or Grace Community, but you haven’t come in yet, tonight’s the night to come inside. The forecast temperature for tonight (Sunday, Dec. 21) is 19 degrees and tomorrow night (Monday, Dec. 22) is 20 degrees. Wind is forecast for both nights. That is dangerously cold weather. Please come inside. I understand that there are many reasons that some of our homeless friends choose not to come to a shelter. But when weather is this cold, your choice becomes much more urgent. Emergency overflow shelter is also open at Salvation Army and Greensboro Urban Ministry. Please, please, come inside.
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Recently, during one of our street outreaches, one of the guys asked if I knew anyone who could help with his rent, because he and his girlfriend had some financial setbacks and were about to be evicted and become homeless. They had already been to all of the financial assistance sources that I knew of, and I didn’t know any other options for them. So all I could offer them was the hot food that we were serving — realizing how inadequate that was for their more pressing need.
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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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Our team of volunteers has been serving breakfasts and dinners for our homeless friends while Arlington House has been closed (details here), and we have two breakfasts to go — Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 10th and 11th. We need cooks (5:00 a.m.), servers (6:45 a.m.) and cleanup help (7:30 a.m.) Location details (cooking at the HIVE, serving at Grace) are here. If you can help, please respond in the comments here or on this post, or contact me via this email form. Thank you!
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We have four more breakfasts to cook and serve to homeless and hungry people before Miss Terry is scheduled to come back and reopen Arlington House. We are cooking at the HIVE and serving at Grace. (Locations and details are here.) If you can cook (5:00 a.m.), serve (6:30 a.m.), or clean up (7:30 a.m.), please respond below. We need people tomorrow (Thursday), Friday, and next Monday and Tuesday. Thank you!
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Volunteers are needed for the breakfasts we’re doing while Arlington House is closed. We’re cooking at the HIVE and serving at Grace. Details are here. If you can volunteer, leave a comment on this post on the StreetWatch web site and I’ll add you to the schedule. We also need donations. More here. Thank you!
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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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