via St. Hilda St. Patrick Episcopal Church
On Maundy Thursday of Holy Week, we were able to provide some much needed supplies to Tent City 4, who was in the process of moving. Here is the witness provided by the one who delivered the supplies:
Tent City 4 was moving from Kirkland Congregational to St. Jude Catholic Church in Redmond. They are now over-capacity with 102 residents. The current economic conditions are taking their toll. Home foreclosures are forcing many prior homeowners out into the rental market and driving rental fees higher and further out of grasp for many.
I rode my big motorcycle to work today and when I arrived at Kirkland Congregational / Tent City my hard bags and soft luggage were stuffed like cornucopias. As I walked up to the security tent, Jeff, the Kirkland camp move captain, Allen, the St Jude camp move captain, and Vaughan, the camp counselor were discussing the dilemma they were facing with shortages of move materials – and how they could possibly tweak here and there to compensate.
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via Redmond Patch by Jeanne Gustafson Sunny skies contributed to a smooth setup Saturday as a crew of residents and volunteers transported Tent City 4 from Kirkland’s Congregational Church to St. Jude Parish in Redmond.
The City of Redmond has granted St. Jude and Tent City 4 a 90-day permit to host the homeless encampment on the church’s Education Hill property. This is the third time Tent City 4 has been located at the church since its launch in 2004.
The encampment is part of a larger Tent City program across King County that is sponsored and managed by the Seattle Housing and Resources Effort and the Women’s Housing Equality and Enhancement League (SHARE/WHEEL).
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These pics are from last month. Thanks to Rotary Club of Kirkland! Learn about what it takes to serve a meal at Tent City 4
Tent City4 moves to St. Jude’s Catholic Church next Saturday! The address is 10526 166th Ave. NE Redmond, Wa 98052.
For the move they need:
Duct tape
Twine
Nylon rope
8 penny nails ( a box if possible)
33 gallon Trash bags (Every camper’s belongings go into labeled trash bags to move)
½” EMT conduit (they need 200feet of it to make their fence.)
Work gloves
Coffee
Creamer
Sugar
Milk
Packages of hot cereal mix
They could use some folks to ferry workers from one site to the other. Move out begins at 5:30am! Call camp if you want to know when you will be needed: 206-618-3901.
Any available youth, scouts, and willing adults can help in setting up the community tents.
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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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