Updated: 11:21 PM EDT July 13, 2021
MACON, Ga. During these hot Central Georgia summers, everybody needs to hydrate, including the folks staying at Macon-Bibb s Brookdale Warming Center.
County commissioners recently challenged people to donate water to the homeless shelter.
Mayor Pro tem Seth Clark and Commissioner Al Tillman said they would match every water bottle donated to the center.
Clark says the shelter has already helped hundreds of people.
That s 600 lives that this county has touched, 600 lives that our staff and volunteers have touched and saved, and we have to remember why this started. It started because two poor souls were lost on Christmas Day due to inclement weather, said Clark.
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MACON, Ga. Mayor Lester Miller says the county is looking at ways to keep the Brookdale Warming Center running for years to come.
The center was originally supposed to be a short-term solution to help get people out of the cold after two homeless men froze to death in late December.
Miller says since they opened the facility, they ve seen the positive impact its made and the success stories coming out of it, so they re now trying to turn this temporary solution into more of a permanent one.
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MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Atrium Health Navicent and Macon-Bibb County partnered to vaccinate residents at the Brookdale Warming Center.
The hospital president and CEO Delvecchio Finley says community partnerships are a key strategy to provide equal access to healthcare.
The warming center opened in January to help residents in need of a warm place to stay during the winter months. The center now provides hot meals and health services to the homeless and families in need. Several of the center’s residents are elders, and are therefore more vulnerable to coronavirus.
Residents were fully vaccinated during the event, receiving the one-dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine.