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Shelters prepare for cold - KLFY TV10 - Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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While many of us look forward to winter, it can arrive with some not so welcomed conditions. With freezing temperatures looming in Acadiana for the next few days, local homeless shelters are getting ready for more people in need of a place to stay. As the temperature drops and we begin to see frost on the ground in some areas of Acadiana. Outside will definitely not be a place to sleep in the coming nights. St. Joseph's Shelter for men in Lafayette is getting ready today to implement their freeze plan for the coming cold nights. The cut off for check-ins is at 7:00 PM but they will not turn away men in need. Right now all 56 permanent beds are at capacity. Last year the shelter averaged 20 emergency walk ins. 20 extra men the shelter doesn't have beds for. "We try to have everybody off the floor, but at times right now we're at 10 cots. So we kind of do what we can" says Jonathan Linzer. Once the 10 cots are full St. Joseph's has sleeping bags for the rest of the emergency walk-ins. "The community has supported us real well in the past and we're going to continue to look to the community to help us fill this void we're currently having right now" says Linzer. If you'd like to help, the shelter is in need of monetary donations, as well as donations of gloves and hats for adult men. Those donations can be made at St. Joseph's Shelter, 425 St. John Street. For more information, call 233-6816. If you can provide donations of hot cooked food or food supplies, please take those to St. Joseph's Diner at 403 West Simcoe. You can contact the diner at 232-8434. Doug MacDiarmid. |
For more information visit: HTTP://www.klfy.com/global/story.asp?s=13592508
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