Ketchikan warming shelter opens for winter at newly-outfitted Park Avenue location
Posted by Eric Stone | Dec 14, 2020
A cot is topped with a pillow and a blanket in the basement of First City Homeless Services’ Overnight Warming Center. (Eric Stone/KRBD)
Homeless people in Ketchikan now have a new place to sleep during the colder winter months. Ketchikan’s Overnight Warming Center is open for its fourth season in a new, upgraded home.
It’s an unassuming A-frame building across from Ketchikan’s American Legion post.
At one point, it was a warehouse for the city’s water department. Then a youth-focused nonprofit took it over to use as a community center. And now, it’s providing dry, warm beds for Ketchikan’s homeless population.