Members of the Lincoln City church community and local government have come together to support a warming shelter at First Baptist Church just ahead of a week of predicted cold weather over the Christmas holiday.
Lincoln City's homeless will benefit from services from the Lincoln City Resource Center & Emergency Warming Shelter (LCWS) at a new location at 4488 NE Devils Lake Blvd. starting Sept. 1.
The Lincoln City Emergency Warming Shelter is open tonight through Monday and possibly beyond due to a cold snap that has hit the Central Oregon Coast.
Lincoln City's plan to bus the homeless to a Newport warming shelter was not communicated to the Newport City Council, Newport Mayor-elect Dean Sawyer said today.
Overwhelming opposition in political circles and on social media have caused Grace Wins Haven to back off from its arrangement to transport Lincoln City's homeless to its warming shelter in Newport, sources said.
Arrangements have been made to transport the Lincoln City homeless to Newport in cold-weather situations and temporarily house them at Grace Wins Haven at the County Fairgrounds.
The Lincoln City Warming Shelter's funding for 2018 was reduced from $45,000 to $4,600, a 90 percent cut, following a vote Monday by the Lincoln City City Council. The Warming Shelter had requested $12,000 in outside agency funds, but was approved for 38 percent of that amount.
