At Home with the Homeless: An Account of the Life and Times at a Northampton Hostel for Homeless Youngsters
Hair Balls (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Earlier this month we wrote about how a Metro vice-president blatantly told some citizens that he considered part of his job to be keeping those nasty homeless people off the light rail. Let them...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
HORSHAM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cradles to Crayons (C2C), a nonprofit organization that provides poor and homeless children, from birth to age 12, with everyday essentials they need to be safe, warm and ready to learn, will be hosting their second annual A Family Time to Give “Ungala” on Saturday, November 21 from 10AM – 2PM. Families and corporate sponsors, such as Bank of America...
The PETA Files (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week Windsor, North Carolina, officials cut the red ribbon that wrapped PETA's very special gift to animals in this small Southern town. For nearly a decade, PETA has been working with Windsor and other area towns to provide homeless animals in their care with better housing conditions and a peaceful end when euthanasia is the most humane option . In 2000, PETA was alerted by a caring police...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
A 52-year-old homeless man who spent nine years on Osaka's streets after being fired from his job was in Italy in September as captain of Japan's soccer delegation to the Homeless World Cup. A total of eight men from Tokyo and Osaka who lost their jobs due to corporate restructuring or saw their temporary work dry up were selected to represent Japan in the competition, which ran from Sept. 6 to 13...
Stone Soup Station (Free subscription) | yesterday
Didn't want to say anything until I knew it was official but I was recently contacted by my dear friend and colleague Janet Rosenberg, a top-notch paralegal over at Legal Aid here in Nashville, and invited to serve as a board member for the Nashville Coalition for the Homeless. At the Coalition/GAPS meeting yesterday, Scott Orman made the announcements and I was tickled pink, not to mention being...
Stone Soup Station (Free subscription) | yesterday
Are we hearing this correctly; do we have a homeless serial killer in the making here? Just great. As if folks on the street didn't have enough to worry about.... Police Think Homeless Attacks Related Edward Matthews Killed In Same Area Another Man Shot In March POSTED: 4:37 pm CST November 19, 2009 UPDATED: 5:17 pm CST November 19, 2009 NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Metro police think a homeless man's death...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Sasha what?" exclaimed rap artist and reality-TV star Flavor Flav on Wednesday evening in response to a question by one of the many reporters crowded around him during his visit to the Sasha Bruce House for homeless youth in Southeast Washington. Flav knew that he and other members of his reunited rap group, Public Enemy, were hosting a Thanksgiving dinner to raise awareness of homeless...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
You might call them the invisible 600. That's the estimated number of children in Allegheny County without permanent housing, about half of whom are school-aged. To call them "homeless" might suggest that they live under bridges or in abandoned houses. While that is not the case, their daily situation still poses challenges, even for something as basic as how to get an education. The 600...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paul Sousa found himself Thursday night where he never thought he'd be: Sober, out of prison, telling a group of people about his transformed life – and thanking two police officers for their service. On Thursday night, Sousa, who was celebrating his graduation from the Bishop Francis Quinn Cottages program, credited Sacramento Police Officers Mark Zoulas and Michael Cooper for being among the...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Despite the promise of a winter shelter plan for the homeless, most of those looking for temporary housing have literally been left out in the cold, advocates said Thursday. Nearly a month after Mayor Kevin Johnson announced a plan for providing winter shelter for 269 homeless people, an autumn storm is looming and only a fraction of the promised beds are available. Maryhouse, a social services program...
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
What would you do if your refrigerator was empty and you were unable to put food in the stomachs of your children? What would you do if the local soup kitchen or food bank turned you away because of short...
sweet pleats (Free subscription) | yesterday
....toolbox pitt? here he is at the nice airport.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paul Sousa found himself Thursday night where he never thought he'd be: Sober, out of prison, telling a group of people about his "transformed" life - and thanking two police officers for their service. Had anyone ever told the once-rebellious man with a "hatred" for authority that he'd do such a thing, he said, he would've told them, "You are high." But on Thursday night,...
SoCal Connected (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
An interview with the executive director of Door of Hope, a transitional housing program that serves homeless families with young children.
The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From Public Eye Online : A confidential government document obtained by Public Eye states BC Housing will use "Extreme Weather response protocols" to deal with the "higher number of homeless persons requiring assistance" during Vancouver's 2010 Winter Olympic Games. Those protocols open up around 600 temporary shelter spaces in Metro Vancouver. But they will also allow police to...
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sattruoani | yesterday
Want to download The Blind Side full movie online ? The Blind Side is the latest blockbuster to hit the screens in US. Read on as I share with you more about the movie and where to download The Blind Side . The Blind Side - The Plot "The Blind Side" depicts the remarkable true story of Michael Oher, a homeless African-American youngster from a broken home, taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white...
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kellya | 25/03/2009
The rate of tuberculosis in San Francisco has been dropping over the last decade, but health officials say they are seeing a new type of TB patient, someone who isn't poor or homeless or a newly arrived immigrant.
ilikecats | 26/09/2008
Betsy, as she has been named, became a minor celebrity when London's only cat vet posted videos of her on the Internet in an attempt to find her owners. However, it was an article in a local newspaper describing her as "old, homeless and [with] a tendency to lash out unexpectedly" that ultimately led to her re-homing. Since being rescued by Kitten to Cat in June, Betsy became a star attraction with...
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