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A month after fire inspectors closed it down, Deming Silver Linings remains shuttered, although it has been permitted to offer some food to unhoused individuals provided no one enters the building it leases at 212-214 S. Copper Street. Other services Silver Linings provided, such as laundry and showers, are unavailable at the location. As things stand, the thrift store and resource center serving those without shelter will not reopen until …

Silver Linings, the nonprofit thrift store and resource center providing services to unhoused people a block away from downtown Deming, has closed for at least one week.

Although Deming's resource center for unhoused people is not a shelter, its presence and the need it serves is felt in a neighborhood one block away from downtown.

Earlier this year, the New River Humane Society/Fayette County Animal Control Center requested $210,000 from the Fayette County Commission. In March the Commission allocated $181,000, which members of the NRHS say isn’t enough. Student reporters at the Fayette Institute of Technology, Evan Robinson and Matthew Light, looked into the situation and have this report.

1 of 2 Students from three classes at the Oak Hill-based Fayette Institute of Technology have worked in recent weeks on a variety of projects aimed at helping raise funds for the New River Humane Society. On Tuesday, March 30, Kathy Gerencer, president of the humane societys board of directors, visited with teachers and students at the school to discuss the projects. Here, FIT students Whitley Williams, left, and Kiersten Hildebrand display projects on which they have be...