Taft Hall is likely to resume its role as a warming shelter in severe-weather situations at the request of its owners if a recommendation to enable the City to move forward with an emergency declaration is granted at Monday’s regular session of the Lincoln City City Council.
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.
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 Resource Center celebrated its one-year anniversary and the birthdays of President Patrick Alexander and Director Amanda Suzanne-Cherryholmes on Thursday with a Lincoln City Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The homeless could soon find themselves lounging in the living rooms of willing private homeowners’ houses or in one of many public facilities under consideration as temporary emergency warming shelters following an unusual reversal of fortunes.
An ordinance to alter rules and restrictions on where a warming shelter can be located could come before the Lincoln City City Council at its Oct. 22 meeting and allow for designation of City property as an emergency site on a temporary basis.
Police and Lincoln City Warming Shelter officials disputed Wednesday a published report that alleged an assault occurred at approximately noon at the shelter at 1206 48th Place.
