San Luis Obispo City officials have teamed with a local non-profit to create a safe place for unhoused people to camp overnight. The partnership between the city and CAPSLO will open up 20 parking spaces for people
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The Rotary Club of Pismo Beach and Five Cities is hosting its first ever sleeping bag drive this month, an effort to help those in the local homeless community who might be wary of staying in congregate shelters amid the COVID-19 pandemic. We just are very touched by that, Rotary Club co-secretary Margie Salame told
New Times. It s a massive problem. click to enlarge Photo Courtesy Of Margie Salame
PROVIDING WARMTH Pismo Beach-Five Cities Rotary Club members Margie Salame, Sally King, and Sharon Ellis (left to right) are helping collect new and gently used sleeping bags that will be distributed to those experiencing homelessness.
Amid a worsening homelessness crisis, the city of San Luis Obispo is launching a new safe parking program in the coming weeks that will give local families and individuals a place to legally park and sleep overnight in their vehicles. Slated to open at Railroad Square in a city-owned parking lot next to the SLO Railroad Museum, bordering the train tracks the 20-space lot aims to replace a county-led parking program at the SLO Vets Hall that was discontinued last summer. click to enlarge File Photo By Kasey Bubnash
SAFE PARKING SLO city hopes a new safe parking program can replace a previous one at the SLO Vets Hall (picutred) that was discontinued by the county last summer.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit locally in March 2020, Central Coast Home Health and Hospice had almost 70 volunteers on its roster who helped provide much-needed companionship and respite to hospice patients and their loved ones. Now the program is almost nonexistent. The activities and services offered through the Central Coast Home Health and Hospice volunteer program vary depending on a patient s needs and the volunteers involved, but Volunteer Coordinator Nicki Tempesta said the overarching goal is to provide some comfort, compassion, and friendship during a difficult time in a client s life. Volunteers often take wheelchair-bound patients out for walks or to see the ocean, they read to patients, play games with them, write dictated letters for them, or do little chores around the house.