Credit Courtesy of JUICE Orange Mound
Update 7:00 p.m. -- Due to a burst pipe at the Frayser-Raleigh Senior Center, the City of Memphis will not be opening a third warming center at that location Tuesday night but instead opening one at the Lewis Senior Center in Midtown.
Before this week, the nonprofit organization JUICE Orange Mound was renovating a 3,000 square foot building in the historic neighborhood as part of its ongoing community development efforts. But on Sunday, the group’s founder Britney Thornton brought cots and sleeping mats to the empty space.
“The project just started from me being cold at home and thinking, you know, as I’m complaining about my house, how...someone else is just outside, even colder,” says Thornton.