Speaking of P-town North homeless, did Dizzy Dinan finally get the kibosh on doing stories about the Crossroads House and the (ahem) "problems" there?
I do not know Sparkey about what is going on with our mild manered reporter but she has been threatend and assaulted for her work. [ as you well know ]
Crossroads is and has been for the last 2 + decades I have lived here, been an interesting place. Millions of dollars have been spent to rebuild the place and when you drive past it most of the autos of the homeless are newer and more expensive that what you are driving.
Problems are ---right to privacy, this at one time meant that the Shelter could not call the police and check if a person that wanted shelter was wanted by the police, a child molester or had escaped from the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane.
No way to check if a man with 2 young boys / girls was really their father or a kidnapper.
Its location across from a bowling alley with a restaurant and bar meant that at all times of the evening some would be stagering across 4 lanes of split highway. Come noon a file of people coming and going to the gas station a 10 minute walk with bags of beer, same old same old.
Then the Super bowl play off when 4-5 guests of the shelter got together and rented a room at the near by Hotel. Where they as homeless came up with the money to do so ?????? Ended up with one dead of an over dose of drugs.
The town bends over backward for the shelter, they seldom send a marked Cruiser to the shelter, they arrive in unmarked cars.
When mayham breaks out the local paper just gives the address, if that to the public. This is the towns Baby, a huge tax right off for the wealthy. The fund raising people promiss medical and dental care for the residents. Tell of all kinds of job training and pie in the sky for the unfortunate. Waiting list for all these goodies is over 18 months, One big article in the paper about all the good they were doing, out of 3,000 people serviced in the last 10 years could only come up with 4-5 people that benefited.
I know this personally as many of the residents came to work with me, in the winter on second shift I would Drive them to the shelter at 2 AM and they would talk. Interesting as it was the woman that had the hardest time of it.
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