By Kathryn Jurik [Continued from previous blog by Kathryn Jurik – Cooking for the Homeless] We have approximately 10 people on our cooking team, the number shifts as people come and go. Most of us come either Tuesday or Friday and some of us come both days. There isn’t a set schedule […]
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Cooking for the Homeless
By Kathryn Jurik When the Joe Rodota Trail homeless camp was across the street from the Center for Spiritual Living, our membership was affected in many ways. Cars were broken into in our parking lot, members were overwhelmed emotionally and spiritually observing the growing mass of people with no resources, and the basic […]
Know Your City Candidates
On November 3rd, cities in Sonoma County will elect their city councilors. Homeless Action! believes that our elected leaders should know about the lives and difficulties of our unhoused friends, be willing to work on reducing those difficulties, and help us implement solutions which we demonstrate will work. We also believe that we have the […]
Offering a Hand Up
By Kelly Keagy, Communications Manager, The Living Room, July 28, 2020. Who could ever have predicted that we would all be living through times like these? I know I am not alone in having to give myself a pep talk (on a regular basis) so that the daily news cycle does not overwhelm me. […]
How Racism of Supervisors and the Business Alliance Works
By Terry Rowan, July 21, 2020. Racism is a serious charge to make and I don’t make it casually. It is useful therefore to distinguish between the intent of an act and its effects, which can be quite different. Like the tone-deaf statement uttered by the now resigned Director of the Business Alliance “All Lives Matter,” (his answer […]
What are Solutions for People Without a Roof?
By Scott Wagner, Project Manager, Sonoma Applied Village Services (SAVS), February/March, 2020. In this bald-faced example of a wealthy county that doesn’t provide their destitute anywhere near adequate shelter, we have several handholds that would help easily. First, the public desperately needs education by their officials that providing basic life services to those experiencing homelessness […]
