JANUARY EDITION
PROMOTING PROGRAMS TO HELP THE HOMELESS PERSONS
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Almost another year's end:
By Richard Faykosh
Yes! We are seeing another year's End. Since this paper will be putting this edition together the last week of the month for the deadline day of the first.
We have seen so much in the past few years. We came out with our first edition 2/1/1996.
And we have strived to be on time on that date ever since. Even if in the past few years we did miss at least twice. Yes! We were late twice in the past few years. And now that we have established our selves. We are still looking for the help that will put us into the next progressive step. Yes! We still seek that one person good enough and willing enough that can believe in him or her self in the field of Sales.
A person that knows that they can sell the fuzz off a golf ball and make the buyer glad they made that deal. What we can offer only depends on how good that sales person can bring. But it would be interesting to see if some one has the _____ to do something. Because all that I have seen so far is promises and no action. So if you got what it takes to be the best sales person. I want to talk to you. If your full of bunk and could not sell yourself to the soup kitchen. Keep walking. So I ask.
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NEXT MONTH WILL BE THE START OF OUR 5th ANNIVERSARY
Is Our Thriving Society Mindful of Our Homeless Populace?
November 6, 1997 Part #3
Thriving Society/Homelessness
BY Dawn Johnson
Would you, personally, as your read these words, be able to sleep well tonight in your warm house, apartment or condo, knowing that men, women and children, are on the frigidly cold pavement, with perhaps a blanket and a box as their dwelling, with no heat? How many more lives must be sacrificed to hunger, freezing, illnesses, dementia, suicide, drug addiction, alcoholism, and crime, resulting from homelessness?
Not all humans are heartless, blind and deaf, to the needs of those of us who are less fortunate. However, the balance scale is weighing more heavily to the need rather than to the supply. More shelters, food, clothing and volunteers are most urgently in demand at present with the threat of intrepid, freezing weather impending.
Highly populate metropolitan areas have addressed the homeless situation much more assertively than the smaller locales, such as villages, and townships. This, of course, is due to the ratio between domiciled people and those who live in the streets. The numbers express themselves more vividly as they become larger.
According to a report from the Illinois Coalition to End Homelessness, (ICH), P.O. Box 1267, Elgin, IL 60121, "….there are over 110,000 homeless men, women, youth and children in Illinois. More than half of the homeless population is in the suburban, small-town, and rural regions of the state." It is further noted that children contribute to approximately 30% of this figure while 25,000 are youth who are accompanied by parents and 25% of the total number are veterans. The number of homeless has increased over 100% within the past four years and is ever increasing.
ICH is credited with: passing legislation by which the State funded homeless shelters; organized and hosted the first State-wide convention on homelessness; passed the Illinois Homeless Prevention Act; conducted the survey that documented the growing crisis of homelessness in the suburban, small town, and rural areas of the state; passed the State income-tax check off to benefit programs that serve homeless persons; being responsible for the passage of the Illinois Education for Homeless Children Act, and many more positive actions to assist to minimize and eliminate the perils of being homeless.
In 1981 Sister Rose Marie Lorentzen of Aurora, IL, assisted members of the local clergy, organized the Hesed House which means "Spirit of Hospitality". They initially utilized basements and halls of local churches to supply pads and linens for the homeless guests to sleep upon while being sheltered from the cold. With the multiplying demand, Hesed House provided a soup kitchen, food pantry and clothes closet. This program has duplicated in South Suburban Cook County, the West Cook County suburbs, DuPage County, Elgin, La Grange, McHenry County, Lake County, and Northwest Suburban Cook County, to name a few. The name of these homeless shelters is P.A.D.S., (Public Action to Deliver Shelter).
What happened to our prosperity?
By Joyce
Hello every one: What"s up!
I just heard today, while watching TV about all the wards Stores closing down, and other factories lying off, What is happening? And why so fast? Were we so greedy, and having it good, that now we are heading towards a recession? I think a lot started with the summers high gas prices at the pump, then, the high natural gas bills this winter. The price's on food and gas up. How can a person or family on a fixed income survive all this? Are we heading for a recession? Depression? Tell us your thoughts and comments on this story. We will print them.
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YOU 10/14/90 By R.J. In the darkness she awaits,
In the chill of night she wonders,
Perhaps she awaits another,
Slowly I move,
And in her I see she feels,
For another,
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Do I inhance,
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Bob Zackery
By Richard Faykosh
I would like to tell you about Bob. He was a very nice guy and this is our first Homeless story of the new year. Bob lived in an apartment in the area with his wife. It was a very slow year and it would seem that it would not get any better for the family. Bob had a regular job and at times the money he made was a bit thin. But they did make the bills. As the year went on it seemed that things would get better but they actually got a bit worse. (To Be Continued)
The rent went up as well as some of the other things that Bob used at work. He had to drive a distance to work and that did cost money to and from work. (But you will say that you have to do the same thing) True! But Bob knew that he had to put in so many hours a day to pay for the gas as well as the food he ate and the cost of the bills that day. He had divided all his monthly bills into a daily cost sheet. To make it at the end of the month he had to do so many hours that week. And had to cut traveling cost. So when overtime was offered. His first words were how many? Bob is one of our one paycheck from being homeless people. And he could become another face on the street. And he knew it.
But Bob knew as long as he was able to get the hours he would be doing okay. He still looked for more work. Hoping to find a better paying job that would launch him to a better pay bracket. That comfort zone where he could be able to put a little away for emergency. But that did not happen. Before the year's end his striving was dashed. He was laid off. And this was a real mental strain to him and to his family.
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