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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 154444" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>On a side note, our local food pantrys? where people faceing difficult times can get help with getting some food? In order to go there and get food, you must have three written referrals from specific agencies (such as battered womens shelter, mental health facility, and county health dept) - and then you can come once per month, on a tuesday between 9 am and noon, and they will give you x items depending on family size and ages of family members.....our family of 5 many years ago, got one grocery bag, it had 1 box of cereal, 5 pkgs sugar free jello, a can of spam, 2 cans tuna, one bag of cornmeal, one loaf bread, one pound hamburger 2 pounds pasta. You were allowed 3 visits in one year, but each visit had to be 30 days apart or more- and each visit had to be by the 3 referrals. </p><p></p><p>We have a homeless shelter, it is at a different church in the county each nite. Males are not usually allowed....there is no trasnportation from one facility to the next- and they are many many many miles apart from each other, so where you stay tonite is quite far from where you stay the next nite. You must be there by 6 PM and gone by 7 am.....(it is not open in warmer months) so our county wanted to build a day shelter for people to have access to newspapers for jobs, somewhere to take a shower, clean up, maybe with washer and dryer? It took several years becuz all the communities kept saying "we have no need----and we do not want to "encourage" homeless to be here in our county" Yeesh. </p><p>At one time when I had WIC and my kids got free school lunch, a parent volunteer from our school found out and blasted me hard ...wanted to know what my problem was to ask for such a thing as free lunch? _ screaming such things at me at a school event. `Our county - I think they think if they pretend there are no problems or difficulties anywhere, then maybe there won;t be any.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 154444, member: 1697"] On a side note, our local food pantrys? where people faceing difficult times can get help with getting some food? In order to go there and get food, you must have three written referrals from specific agencies (such as battered womens shelter, mental health facility, and county health dept) - and then you can come once per month, on a tuesday between 9 am and noon, and they will give you x items depending on family size and ages of family members.....our family of 5 many years ago, got one grocery bag, it had 1 box of cereal, 5 pkgs sugar free jello, a can of spam, 2 cans tuna, one bag of cornmeal, one loaf bread, one pound hamburger 2 pounds pasta. You were allowed 3 visits in one year, but each visit had to be 30 days apart or more- and each visit had to be by the 3 referrals. We have a homeless shelter, it is at a different church in the county each nite. Males are not usually allowed....there is no trasnportation from one facility to the next- and they are many many many miles apart from each other, so where you stay tonite is quite far from where you stay the next nite. You must be there by 6 PM and gone by 7 am.....(it is not open in warmer months) so our county wanted to build a day shelter for people to have access to newspapers for jobs, somewhere to take a shower, clean up, maybe with washer and dryer? It took several years becuz all the communities kept saying "we have no need----and we do not want to "encourage" homeless to be here in our county" Yeesh. At one time when I had WIC and my kids got free school lunch, a parent volunteer from our school found out and blasted me hard ...wanted to know what my problem was to ask for such a thing as free lunch? _ screaming such things at me at a school event. `Our county - I think they think if they pretend there are no problems or difficulties anywhere, then maybe there won;t be any. [/QUOTE]
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