Before cold weather settles in, shelters to keep homeless individuals off the streets and out of the elements on a daily basis will again be opening in Amherst and Northampton.In Amherst, as it was last winter season, Craig’s Place, operated by.
NORTHAMPTON This year’s Shelter Sunday fundraiser to benefit local homeless services organizations was not confined to a single day, so those who have not yet donated to the Oct. 2 drive still have a chance to participate.Beneficiaries of the 31st.
NORTHAMPTON The annual Shelter Sunday drives in Northampton and Amherst will continue their virtual approach this year with high fundraising goals to support the local homeless and hungry.Amy Timmins, vice president of community relations at.
‘Someone just needed to do it’: Manna to open warming center for homeless at Episcopal Church
Kalia Richards, who lives at the Grove Street shelter, looks over what’s left of at least four tents that caught fire in a homeless camp near Pulaski Park in Northampton last weekend. GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
Published: 2/5/2021 10:56:05 PM
NORTHAMPTON As a pastor at Cathedral in the Night, Stephanie Smith has met people this winter who are homeless for the first time and was troubled that they had no place to go to keep warm in the pandemic, outside of Northampton’s two shelters.
“We do not have a warming center right now and that’s a real concern,” Smith said last week at a joint meeting of the City Council committees on City Services and Community Resources that focused on housing security.
Interfaith Emergency Services to honor staff at Sunrise Breakfast
Cindy Cummings had been clean for more than two years when her depression, fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic, led her over the summer to begin using methamphetamines again. I was separated from my family, said Cummings, 58. My mom is elderly and because of COVID I couldn t live with her. I was depressed and I started using meth again. Meth is my addiction.
The day after Thanksgiving, Cummings, 58, ditched the drugs and ended up on the Interfaith Emergency Services doorstep, seeking food and lodging in hopes of keeping her demonic addiction to meth from spiraling farther out of control.