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Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - As walls rapidly go up on the new Mendenhall Valley location of the Glory Hall, Sealaska’s board of directors sent a strong message of support for the initiative by committing $50,000 to the project at its December meeting. The Glory Hall is Juneau’s emergency shelter and soup kitchen, providing three meals a day and shelter for those experiencing homelessness or crisis since 1981. The Glory Hall also provides transportation, social-service referrals, mental-health counseling, laundry, showers and more. The original Glory Hall location is in downtown Juneau, on Franklin Street. The expansion was planned before the pandemic, but the pressures of serving Juneau residents experiencing homelessness in the midst of the pandemic have increased the project’s urgency and left project leaders determined to work through the winter to open the new location during the summer of 2021. The project broke ground in October and managers expect the ....