There’s this outfit called Abode which is a government funded group. They do run the Hope van, which shows up once a week at Vineyard Christian Fellowship (so long as it’s not a holiday) and set you up with appointments to the county hospital if they think you need one. You can tell that they’re government funded because they’re shut down on holidays. Anyway, one of the things they do mostly is take people from the inner city, clean them up, and rent them rooms (with tax dollars) here in Livermore, where they continue to sell and or use drugs or whatever else it is they do. Abode does talk a good game, but don’t do much for anyone out here, but they sure like to add to our population… negatively. Last year their rep showed up at a city conference and ranted about how “Housing must be FIRST”... Same with Self Esteme… one must be housed and have great esteme in one’s own eyes…
Anyway, the outfit is mostly worthless. The hope van is nice, but if it didn’t exist, Cornerstone, Cedar Grove or some other church would fill that void pretty quickly like they do for six days of the week when the hope van doesn’t show up…
The main participants at the homeless refuge are Bob and Donna McKenzie. He’s a stoic Irish American and she’s this tiny woman of Italian stock with this whole Sofia Loren thing going on…. they’re 78 years old, both of them. If the homeless refuge were a govt. operation those two would not be involved, and it would be pretty wretched for not having them.
If it’s government run or funded, it’s probably not working very well… That’s not political, that’s simple reality.
As far as Chris’ death, I didn’t know her hardly at all. But Linda and Harry have been volunteers for years, so I know them quite well. That they were volunteering last night was… well, that had to be pretty cruel to find out after…
Sorry bout the headache… when I get those, they put me down and I’m unable to function. :(
