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'My hope is that my students were able to understand just how interconnected we all are': Westport teacher shares lesson on compassion, homelessness

The Flyin Buzzards bluegrass band will perform Friday night and Saturday night (5/28-5/29) at 7 at the River Shelter at Roaring River State Park. Bluegrass

'It feels like a miracle': Donors, volunteers and churches help hundreds find shelter from cold Jackie Rehwald, Springfield News-Leader © Nathan Papes/Springfield News-Leader Eden Village resident Mirenda Barrows makes coffee as she volunteers in the emergency shelter set up at Eden Village on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. As temperatures plummeted this past week to lows not seen in decades, donors and volunteers throughout the Ozarks pitched in to make sure everyone who sought shelter had a warm place to sleep. There are currently seven crisis cold weather shelter sites through...

Listen to the tenth and final part of our series, Unsheltered, here. Each community’s response to homelessness during the pandemic has been unique.  And in a year when extraordinary sums of money are flowing from federal CARES Act coronavirus relief funding, this has led to some creative solutions nationwide. In Huntington Beach, California, coronavirus relief funds are going toward a massive, insulated tent that’s been erected to house the unsheltered. The City of Reno is reportedly planning to use a whopping one-fifth of its coronavirus stimulus funds on a “super-shelter” that w...