Long-awaited relief appears to have arrived for Bremerton residents with the opening of the Salvation Army’s seasonal shelter, allowing for enforcement of the city’s revised law on camping while the shelter has vacancies.
Sixteen years ago I was living in Utah and working for a newspaper there, when in early April my brother and a few of his friends in Minnesota hopped in a van to escape the early spring doldrums and started driving south. They arrived in southern Utah just before Easter weekend and I drove a few hours to meet them, the trip planned in such haste that no one noticed what the tourist town of Moab is famous for that time of year: A Jeep safari event that draws thousands of 4x4s to rally around those famous red rocks for a few days. There was, suffice to say, no room at the inn for us.