Are you one of those truly kind people who sees the television advertisements for hungry, homeless children starving in Africa or India or poor sorrowful pets that need forever homes and writes a check? So good of you to do so, really. If I tell you there are starving, homeless children, over 200 of them,…
Tag: Homelessness
Effective homeless family program to expand
By Marianne Lincoln Over a month ago, the board of Family Promise of Pierce County voted to add a dba (doing business as) name to its license. The name Family Promise of Puget Sound was added due to interest from Kitsap, Thurston and King Counties, in the project started in Spanaway. With all the noise…
Is the “Good Neighbor Village” being a good neighbor?
By Spanaway Concerned Citizens As concerned citizens, we rely on our elected officials to make decisions regarding topics that significantly impact the well-being of our communities — addressing critical issues such as providing housing for our chemically dependent, chronically homeless individuals is undoubtedly important. However, does this effort justify compromising regional environmental integrity and public…
Prickly Pete is homeless
It’s a bit ironic and terribly sad if you love wildlife. All the neighbors tried to explain to the Hearings Examiner what the Tacoma Rescue Mission and the former County Executive just refused to get through their heads. The Spanaway Marsh property already had numerous residents. Residents that could not attend the hearings or testify…
Unhoused people are like everyone else, until…
By Marianne Lincoln Becoming unhoused is a very difficult thing to experience. It happens to many very ordinary people. It could be a medical situation, a job loss, sale of a rental property, death of a spouse whose pension or income helped support the household, or many other traumatic life events. Many people have close…
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