Outside all winter: In N.H. and in the Lakes Region, unsheltered homelessness rises
Tim Haddock is a regular for lunch at Isaiah 61 Cafe in Laconia, which offers a weekday respite from the cold and a source of donated coats mittens and sleeping bags during cold weather. Roberta Baker Laconia Daily Sun
Freeman Toth has the weighty job of finding people before it is too late.
As one of two homeless outreach and housing stability coordinators for the Community Action Program of Belknap-Merrimack Counties, Toth combs the woods, encampments, parks and gazebos, shelters, soup kitchens and cars. He looks for people who have no consistent place to sleep or to escape life-threatening weather. Late last year he discovered a young man passed out on railroad tracks in freezing temperatures.