Interfaith serves youths in transition on the coast
North County Times: January 28, 2007
OCEANSIDE ---- Sometimes helping at-risk kids find a better path means finding the right angle, and that is the idea behind the Transitional Youth Academy. "We try to figure out all of the different angles to change behaviors," said Lorene Ibbetson, ...
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Salvation Army may have shelter solution
North County Times: January 12, 2007
ESCONDIDO ---- Officials at the Salvation Army said Thursday that they may yet be able to run a winter shelter for the homeless, despite the Escondido City Council's rejection Wednesday of its second request to open one. Mel Takahara, program directo...
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Escondido City Council rejects second request for homeless shelter
North County Times: January 11, 2007
ESCONDIDO -- The Escondido City Council said "no" Wednesday for a second time to the Salvation Army's request to open an emergency winter shelter for the homeless. In a 3-2 vote during its late-afternoon meeting, the council rejected the organization's request to operate a 40-bed…
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Escondido prays for the homeless; Salvation Army to ask permission today for winter shelter
North County Times: January 10, 2007
ESCONDIDO -- Escondido needs healing, Mel Takahara told a crowd of about 75 people whose faces were lit by the glow of candles Tuesday evening on the steps of City Hall…
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Homeless shelter issue coming back to Escondido City Council
North County Times: January 3, 2007
ESCONDIDO -- Advocates of an emergency homeless shelter in Escondido may be facing another collision with the City Council next week…
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Council will be asked about homeless shelter again
North County Times: December 30, 2006
ESCONDIDO ---- The need for a walk-in homeless shelter in Escondido is not resolved, homeless advocates said this week. The Salvation Army and Interfaith Community Services are preparing to return to the City Council on Jan. 10 with a request to continue operating a winter…
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Shelters do more than just shelter
North County Times: December 29, 2006
"Are you here for the night?" a man with blue eyes and a shaggy beard asks me. I glance around the room. Rows of cots, posters on a wall reminding me to trust in God, exhausted-looking men and women sitting at a table drinking coffee…
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27 acts of kindness
North County Times: December 23, 2006
You can only guess what was going through the mind of the Big 5 Sporting Goods cashier when Escondido resident Pam, who didn't want to share her last name, walked up late this week with an order for 27 sleeping bags…
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Temporary shelter opens in Escondido
North County Times: December 23, 2006
ESCONDIDO ---- Rumpled and seeking overnight shelter from the cold, Jeff Ziegler was the first person to enter a temporary winter shelter opened Friday night in Escondido for the homeless…
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Escondido apparently will get a winter shelter after all
North County Times: December 22, 2006
ESCONDIDO ---- A day after the Escondido City Council rejected the Salvation Army's plan to open a temporary winter shelter, the agency appeared to have found another way to provide some of the city's homeless with a warm place to stay overnight…
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Escondido council denies winter shelter request
North County Times: December 21, 2006
ESCONDIDO -- The city of Escondido has done enough to help the homeless, the majority of the City Council said Wednesday evening. Four of the five council members said during their last meeting of the year that they couldn't support a request by officials of the Salvation Army and Interfaith Community Services to open a temporary winter shelter…
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No winter shelter for Inland's homeless this year
North County Times: November 26, 2006
NORTH COUNTY ---- During the difficult years over the last decade, Earl Brown spent his winters living on inland North County's streets…
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Escondido's Interfaith serves up hope
North County Times: November 24, 2006
A line of diners streamed out the door of Interfaith Community Services in Escondido, where the charity serves the community's homeless and poor. Once seated at the shelter's round tables, the guests received heaping trays of Thanksgiving dinner, delivered swiftly by volunteers…
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Interfaith in need of turkey donations
North County Times: November 21, 2006
ESCONDIDO -- Interfaith Community Services is looking for a few good birds. Although the social service agency has enough birds to feed the hundreds of families and individuals expected to show up for its annual Thanksgiving dinners this week, its freezers have almost no additional turkeys…
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