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At the warming center at Yorkship Elementary School on Feb. 11, 2021, Tawanda Jones rests in what she calls her apartment strategically-placed blankets that she said hide her from the patrons view when she sleeps in the gym. (April Saul for WHYY)
It was the morning of Jan. 28 when Connie Kellum saw the weather report for Camden and called Tawanda “Wawa” Jones, her longtime friend.
“I said, ‘What are we doing for Code Blue? We got five hours, the storm’s in Buffalo, and it’s coming.”
Jones founder of the Camden Sophisticated Sisters drill team and the Masked Melanin Market, which showcases Black-owned businesses had been thinking the same thing.