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Anyone got a spare $15k?
Submitted by Rick on Fri, 12/30/2005 - 7:36am.

From The Olympian:

Last year, the coalition ran an emergency cold-weather shelter at St. David's Episcopal Church in Shelton. Hayes and the Rev. Jeff Sells applied for an extension of a conditional-use permit to keep the shelter open, but city staffers wrote a letter in August that said the church did not meet fire code requirements.

The church is in the process of raising $15,000 to bring the building up to code, Hayes said.

The conditional-use permit application has been resubmitted, and city staff plans to turn it over to a hearing examiner for approval within the next several weeks.

Until then, Mason County has no place to shelter homeless people when the temperature dips below freezing.

Mason county officials considered bussing homeless to Olympia, but we don't have enough space here to take them in.

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Why does the City of Shelton

Submitted by organicj on Mon, 01/02/2006 - 10:21pm.
Why does the City of Shelton want to bus people out of their county to tax the resources of another community. Does the city plan on bussing the homeless back? How is the city going to make the homeless come back to Shelton?
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We don't have the ability to

Submitted by Rob Richards on Tue, 01/03/2006 - 1:52pm.
We don't have the ability to help our own residents, let alone Shelton's.
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