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Update, Feb. 19: As temperatures rise above freezing and road conditions clear up some, here s where some major stores in Central Texas stand Friday. Expect limited stock across the board.
• Austin-area
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Central Market on North Lamar Boulevard will be open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday; the Westgate locations remains closed.
• Many
Randalls in the area will close early on Friday, but the hours vary from store to store. For example, the Ben White Boulevard and Research Boulevard stores close at 8 p.m. Call the store in your area for updated hours.
• According to the
Walmartwebsite, most of its stores are open until 11 p.m. on Friday. According to the Target website, its stores are open until 10 p.m. Call your local store before you go to confirm.
Austin officials and unsheltered residents push for better housing
Austin officials and unsheltered residents push for better housing
A year and a half after Austin lifted a local ban on camping in public, some officials want to buy hotels for housing homeless residents. Meanwhile, a state-sanctioned encampment in the city is full and can t accept new residents.
Juan Pablo Garnham, The Texas Tribune
Jan. 27, 2021
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A woman that goes by âWhisperâ sits with her possesions under Ben White near Westgate as TxDOT workers follow through with a directive from Gov. Greg Abbott to clean up under highway overpasses like Ben White at Westgate in Austin on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019.Bob Owen/Staff photographer
Teddy Maddux sits on his couch inside a tent made out of tarps at a homeless encampment on state-owned land in Austin on Jan. 18. Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who has made homelessness one of his many battlegrounds in an ongoing war against Austin’s progressive leadership, wants the Legislature to ban camping in public places like sidewalks and highway underpasses. Credit: Evan L Roy/The Texas Tribune
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Ronnie Vara stood at the corner of Austin’s Menchaca Road and W. Ben White Boulevard on a recent chilly evening asking motorists for money with a colorful cardboard sign.
As Gov. Greg Abbott vows to ban homeless camping in public, Austin officials and unsheltered residents push for better housing access
Texas Tribune
Tags: Teddy Maddux sits on his couch inside a tent made out of tarps at a homeless encampment on state-owned land in Austin on Jan. 18. Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who has made homelessness one of his many battlegrounds in an ongoing war against Austin’s progressive leadership, wants the Legislature to ban camping in public places like sidewalks and highway underpasses.
Credit: Evan L Roy/The Texas Tribune
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Pastor Mark Hilbelink leads a group of 40 churches trying to help the homeless.
Food, water and coffee are just a few of the many services offered at Sunrise Community Church.
One day five years ago, they showed up.
Mark Hilbelink, the pastor at the small Sunrise Community Church near Ben White Boulevard and Menchaca Road, noticed that among his flock that Sunday were worshipers who he knew were experiencing homelessness.
“We didn’t plan on it,” says Hilbelink, 37, originally from small-town South Dakota and Iowa. “They just came.”
Already, Hilbelink had realized that the church, founded as part of the Christian Reformed movement, could do what many churches based on biblical principles wanted to do: follow in the footsteps of Jesus and help those who need help the most.