By MIKE CONLEY
Marionâs homeless community now has a special hotline where they can find help with food, shelter or clothing.
On Wednesday morning, a group of committed advocates âbroke groundâ at East Marion Pentecostal Holiness Church for the new Code Purple Hotline 828-764-1295. This hotline has been created to aid the local community with finding basic needs. This is a joint effort by the church, the Marion East Community Forum, the Letâs Act Army - McDowell, McDowell Mission Ministries and other local organizations.
The Rev. Jeff Palmer and his wife Niki from East Marion PHC and Debora Workman of the Marion East forum will answer the 24-hour hotline number and refer the caller to local services for food, shelter and clothing. They are teaming up with Centro Unido Latino-Americano and St. Johnâs Episcopal Church food pantry for food support. McDowell Mission Ministries will be the place to go for shelter, although there are some overflow si
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Roy Exum
When President Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to famous football coach Lou Holtz last week, it was magnificent. Lou and I got to be friends years ago and once I wrote a story for Reader’s Digest about “The Best Bowl Game Ever Played.” I watched hundreds of football games, but the 1978 Orange Bowl between No. 2 Oklahoma and No. 6 Arkansas is far and away one of my most favorites. Mind you, I didn’t attend the game, but when Lou was later the head coach at Notre Dame, I flew to Chicago, caught “the train” into South Bend, Indiana, trying to lap up as much of the Fighting Irish mystique as I possible could, and then spent two hours in his office to hear him tell the story of “Family Time” in his own words.