February 12, 2021 By Jon King / jking@whmi.com
A weeklong friendly rivalry between classrooms has turned into a big win in the fight against homelessness, as students at St. Patrick School in Brighton raised more than $10,000 for the Severe Weather Network, an organization that shelters homeless adults in Livingston County.
As part of the celebration of Catholic Schools Week, the students were challenged to âPenny Warsâ - in which each grade collected spare change in a jar outside the classroom. In addition to earning points by filling up their own jars with coins, students could strategically use paper money to âsabotageâ other classrooms to deduct points from their total. That competition resulted in more than $8,500 in donations from the junior kindergarten through 8th-grade classes, with the schoolâs Christian Service Committee adding in another $2000 to bring the total to $10,539.73.
February 2, 2021 By Mike Kruzman / news@whmi.com
Several local agencies participated in a count to help determine just how many people are without a home when the weather is its roughest.
The Livingston County Homeless Continuum of Care Committee is reporting a Point-in-Time (PIT) count of 44 individuals in shelters experiencing homelessness during the coldest month of the year. The PIT count takes place nationwide annually on the last Wednesday of January and is required for homelessness programs that are funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The count took place last Wednesday, between 10am and midnight, and included 7 teams with 14 volunteers from the United Way, the Salvation Army, St. Vincent DePaul, the Livingston Family Center, and the Connection Youth Services, Severe Weather Network, OLHSA, and Livingston County Catholic Charities. Two unsheltered individuals were also found during the time frame and were offere
January 27, 2021 By Jessica Mathews / news@whmi.com
A local partnership is helping raise funds to cover the cost of sheltering homeless adult men and women while promoting local awareness about the barriers homeless individuals face on a consistent basis within Livingston County.
The Howell Eagle Riders, a chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagle, began supporting the efforts of the Severe Weather Network Livingston County in 2019. Most recently the organization donated $4,000 to secure 80 nights of emergency shelter for the Severe Weather Networkâs 2021 season.
The Network has been providing seasonal emergency sheltering services to homeless adult men and women since 2015. Currently, operating from a local hotel due to a pandemic pivot from a congregate shelter to leasing individual hotel rooms, the organization has been limited to 10 hotel rooms per night due to budget constraints. The non-profit has been booked to capacity for the maj
By TANYA SMITH-CARTWRIGHT
tsmith-cartwright@tribunemedia.net
TREVOR Basden, director of the Department of Meteorology, is excited about the possibility of his department’s usage of the proposed Aviation, Climate and Severe Weather Network, a system that can catapult the country’s aviation and meteorological departments into cutting edge performances.
On Monday, The Tribune unveiled the network with it declaring: “$472 Million First-of-a-Kind Aviation, Climate, Marine, Ocean and Severe Weather Network, Gets Cabinet Green Light.”
Yesterday, The Tribune spoke with Met Office head, Mr Basden, who feels this network will be a move in the right direction once it is set up in his department.