By SAMANTHA PAK
Redmond Reporter Reporter
On Monday night, city officials held a public meeting to give the community the opportunity to ask questions or express concerns about having the homeless encampment on the grassy grounds at St. Jude Catholic Church, located at 10526 166th Ave N.E. in Redmond.
The meeting was just one step the City of Redmond must follow through on to approve the short-term temporary-use permit St. Jude and Tent City 4 applied for a permit to bring the camp to Redmond for about three months, beginning April 23.
Steve Fischer, a principal planner for the city, said this is the third time in five years that Tent City 4 will be in Redmond and this was his third public meeting. All three meetings have been in the cafeteria at Redmond Junior High School, which is just southwest of St. Jude at 10055 166th Ave. N.E.
Fischer said the meetings have gone from standing-room-only to a little more than a dozen, most of which were Tent City 4 residents. He takes the low attendance as a sign that community has become more accepting and welcoming of the camp — fewer people means fewer concerns.
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Needs list:
Paper plates, bowls, cups
Tuna in 7oz cans
Soups especially meaty ones (they get so many carbs and not so much protein)
Top Ramin
Cup of Soup
Lunch meat
Viena sausages
Canned Corn beef
Chili
Other canned main dishes for one ( everybody is in charge of their own meals other than the ones brought by churches and groups)
Paper towels
Toilet paper
Coffee and creamer
Tea, cocoa and cider mix
Sugar
Hot cereal in individual packages
Cold cereal big boxes are fine
Jeans
T shirts
Sweats
Men and women’s underwear (when I buy for me or my husband I just double up on our sizes and donate half of them. If we all do that we will probably cover all sizes)
Jackets and sweaters
Thank you all for your help. Have any questions contact me.
Sandi Hunt
425-823-1629
Sandrah.hunt@gmail.com
via Woodinville Patch
By Annie Archer | Email the author
The Wilder Elementary Girl Scouts are collecting for the homeless and dispelling misconceptions in the process.
Girl Scout Brownie Troop 52527 at Wilder Elementary School in Woodinville is collecting blankets for residents of Tent City 4, according to troop leader Melissa Rogers.
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via Sacramento Bee
Slideshow
SEATTLE – This winter, 68 homeless men and women settled into an organized camp in a leafy hillside neighborhood of this city. The flaps of their colorful tents were mere feet from five-bedroom homes worth more than $700,000.
Not far away, another camp set up in and around an old city firehouse, was two blocks from the rush-hour buzz of an avenue packed with restaurants and yoga studios. A third took shape across the street from City Hall in Kirkland, a lakeside enclave east of Seattle that is one of Washington’s more affluent communities.
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Article and Video by Brad Wong via Sammamish Patch
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The drive from Tent City 4 – located in a parking lot of a Kirkland church – to a Redmond dental office on Saturday took only about 20 minutes.
But the dentists and hygienists who volunteered their time to help homeless residents hoped that the cleaning, checking, filling and extracting would last a long time – and in a good way.
Their efforts were led by Sammamish-based International Smile Power, a nonprofit organization which has sent dental teams to different parts of the world to provide care.
For the second year in a row, International Smile Power joined with about six dentists to help tent city residents, who are staying at Kirkland Congregational Church.
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via Redmond Reporter by Bill Christianson, Editor
Bruce Thomas and his group of homeless “myth busters” are returning to Redmond, pending city approval.
Thomas, a homeless man and camp advisor for Tent City 4, along with Dave Rogerson, pastor at St. Jude Catholic Church on Education Hill, filed for a temporary-use permit with the City of Redmond last week to bring the homeless encampment back to the church property for the third time in five years.
Tent City 4, currently at the Kirkland Congregational Church, will move to the grassy grounds behind St. Jude’s, located at 10526 166th Ave NE, April 23 and stay for approximately 90 days — if the permit is approved — according to Thomas, who has been a Tent City 4 resident since it was created in 2004.
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I’m not sure who this is, but I applaud the use of social media technology communicate his experience. You can follow him here and provide some support and encouragement:
http://twitter.com/#!/tenycitycamper
MARCH 12, 2011 9AM to 4PM
Twice a year, ISP volunteers partner with Tent City 4 residents to educate and improve oral health. Dentists meet with the residents a week prior to the dental outreach to screen, answer questions, and most importantly, reduce their anxiety of “going to the dentist.” On the dental day, volunteer drivers transport residents to and from a local dental office. Licensed hygienists and dentists do exams, cleanings, fillings, x-rays, varnishes and extractions.
Comments from previous dental day volunteers:
Steve Burke, one of the drivers taking residents to and from TC4 and the dental office, said that everyone he talked to was very anxious about going to a dentist and would have run had they not needed to see a dentist so badly. But on the ride back to Tent City all said, “Those were the nicest most generous dental people that I have ever seen.”
Another ISP volunteer said she was shocked and saddened that in our own backyard, there were so many people whose teeth were in really bad shape. One resident had to have 14 teeth pulled – half of the teeth in his mouth! She said, “We are used to seeing that in remote, impoverished areas of developing countries, but never fathomed that we would find that here on the affluent eastside of Seattle.”
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SHARE is a grassroots, non-profit organization of homeless men & women. We are King County’s largest homeless shelter network. Currently, we have a shortfall of $150, 000.00 our annual budget.
Our Grant Writing Committee seeks a few experienced grant writers to partner with us in completing grant applications. Interested in a fun experience working with a self-organized group? Come join us. For more information call SHARE/WHEEL Organizer: Michele Marchand @ 206-956-0334 or e-mail: grants@sharewheel.org
From The Kirkland Reporter. Photograph by Matt Phelps
Tent City 4 resident Alan Erickson puts up a tent at the homeless encampment that moved into the parking lot of Kirkland Congregational Church on Saturday, directly across the street from Kirkland City Hall. Tent City currently has 86 residents, though the encampment can house up to 100 people. Tent City is currently in need of many items, including: disposable cups, toilet paper, batteries (AAA, D), coffee, creamer, sugar, trash bags (33 gallon), hand sanitizer, canned and microwavable food, paper plates, bowls, razors, shaving cream, tooth brushes, shampoo, cold medicine, warm hats, socks, thermal underwear and more. To donate, please contact 206-618-3901.
