Once Homeless, Residents of a Granville Street Hostel Are Now Thriving
A former hostel now houses people who’ve experienced homelessness, but it’s unclear how long the arrangement will last.
Jen St. Denis is The Tyee’s Downtown Eastside reporter. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES Martin had been homeless for three years before he found a home at 1025 Granville St., one of 21 hotels leased by the province to house people or provide space to isolate because of COVID-19.
Photo by Jen St. Denis.
Residents of a backpackers’ hostel now being used as housing for low-income people hope they’ll be able to stay permanently, but the future of 1025 Granville St., along with 20 other Metro Vancouver hotels recently leased by the province, is up in the air.
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Sandy Ground Historical Society, Black History Celebration goes virtual
Updated Feb 10, 2021;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. An annual fundraiser supporting the Staten Island grown Sandy Ground Historical Society will take to the virtual space this month.
The event, titled “Rising from the Sandy Ground,” aims to inform those from Staten Island, and beyond, of Sandy Ground’s lesser known history as well as begin a fundraiser to support the Sandy Ground Historical Society. The grounds, currently located in the Rossville neighborhood of Staten Island, were a haven from persecution for freed African-Americans starting with the first documented land purchased by an African-American on Staten Island in 1828. The land was purchased three months after slavery was abolished in New York state.
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January 31, 2021
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Today is Monday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2021. There are 333 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members: commander Rick Husband; pilot William McCool; payload commander Michael Anderson; mission specialists Kalpana Chawla, David Brown and Laurel Clark; and payload specialist Ilan Ramon (ee-LAHN’ rah-MOHN’), the first Israeli in space.
On this date:
In 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York. (However, since only three of the six justices were present, the court recessed until the next day.)