Compassion Center helps families, day laborers, veterans find shelter By Jan Bernstein Chargin Everyone needs a safe and legal place to sleep — and sometimes to do homework. Although we’ve had a recent heat wave, the nights are getting colder. For people...
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Compassion Center helps families, day laborers, veterans find shelter By Jan Bernstein Chargin Everyone needs a safe and legal place to sleep — and sometimes to do homework. Although we’ve had a recent heat wave, the nights are getting colder. For people without a safe and legal place to sleep, the most difficult time of year is fast approaching. The cold weather shelter in Gilroy does not open until after Thanksgiving. Most people don’t realize that there is no year-round shelter for the homeless in South County. Who are the homeless? They are parents, children, college students, day laborers, people with disabilities, cancer patients, seniors, minimum wage employees and military veterans. They are as different from one another as we all are, but they have something in common — they can’t afford a place to live. At last count there were more than 1,000 people in this situation in South County. South County now has a drop-in day center to meet some of these needs, in the Gilroy Compass
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