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Monday, December 9, 2013

Shelter Needs Volunteers

A cold snap later this week means the city's homeless will have to find somewhere to go for the night.

The Out of the Cold shelter at Grace Presbyterian Church doesn't open until January and is looking for volunteers.
 

Volunteer recruiter Tony Dickinson tells CHSJ News they have four people volunteering at night and two that stay overnight.

He says ideal conditions are a man and a woman or two men for the overnight shift adding they never have woman working alone.
 

He tells us the evening shift is busier and about four hours with a lot more to do because the guys are awake and active.

The shelter can use donations of socks as the men who use their services often walking around all day and during the winter months it can be in slush so they often come in with wet feet.  


Socks can be dropped off anytime at the church and they ask you to specify that they are for the Out of the Cold shelter.

Dickinson says if you attended the first session you don't need to attend the second one.    The training session is coming up on Thursday night at Grace Presbyterian Church at 7pm.


You are asked to use the Hazen street entrance.