‘Network News’ Archives
The Mountain XPress Ran an Article About Chris Sullivan’s “Home Free Bagels” Startup
Chris Sullivan has made significant progress with her start-up. The Mountain XPress has ran an article about it, in the print version, and online. The online version starts out the same, but continues on and is about twice as long. Excerpt: ------------------------------------------------------- by Mackensy Lunsford Chris Sullivan [...]
Asheville Area Shelters Will Be Open in Cold Weather
This is from on an e-mail that went out from the Homeless Coalition. Area Shelters Enact CODE PURPLE and Offer Emergency Cold Weather Services In response to recent deadly winter weather, area shelters have come together to offer emergency cold weather services to people who are currently experiencing homelessness and would not otherwise [...]
A-Hope in need of Bread Donations
A-Hope normally (almost always) has had bread so people can make a peanut butter & jelly sandwich in the morning. For the past three days there hasn't been any. If you have unopened, unexpired bread, you could donate it to them, and help the homeless have something light to eat until the later meals are available elsewhere. The address [...]
Miscellaneous Updates and Information
Annual homeless event Friday Sept. 10th: Project Connect (for non-veterans) will be at First Baptist Church, and VA StandDown (for veterans) will be at Stevens Lee Center. There will be food, services, clothing, and more. More details later. The Carolina Homeless Information Network (CHIN) has updated its website. There is a lot of [...]
Jerry’s Coast to Coast Fundraising Bike Ride Has Ended Early – His Photos Will Be Displayed
Jerry had to cut his bicycle trip short. He journeyed from Asheville, NC to Arcadia, LA. For more information see http://journeyamerica.../. Jerry's photographs from his trip will be on display at Ello Cafe throughout the month of May. If you would like to make suggestions about which photographs to display you can browse them here: [...]
Homeless Network “Adopts” Ann St.
The Asheville Homeless Network in response to a recent rise in a long existing problem with litter on N. Ann St. has started a litter removal crew on Thursday mornings. AHN meets at 9 am at the rear of the shelter and collects trash along the street and from surrounding properties. In addition to forming the clean up crew, the Homeless Network [...]
Minutes of the 28 January meeting at Firestorm Cafe
At the January 28, 2010 meeting of the Asheville Homeless Network at Firestorm Café, 18 were in attendance with President Moss Bliss presiding. Minutes were recorded by David Mayeux. After setting up new members and making introductions of who and what Asheville Homeless Network is, Moss, taking note of the larger group of friendly faces, [...]
Minutes of the 21 January meeting at Firestorm Cafe
Asheville Homeless Network Meeting Minutes 21 January 2010 For the January 21st meeting of the Asheville Homeless Network, seven were present for the business portion of the meeting with a few stragglers afterward. President Moss Bliss presided. After signing in new members and introducing the history and purpose of the Network, we began [...]
Asheville Homeless Social Networking?
Homeless Network's Mission includes creating and maintaining community among the homeless people in Asheville, the formerly homeless, and their allies, and providing information on homeless issues in the Asheville Area. This blog and the yahoo! group play a large part in realizing those goals online, but we're now taking more steps toward that [...]
Minutes of the January 14 Meeting
Sorry these are a week late. Asheville Homeless Network Meeting Minutes 14 January 2010 For the January 14th meeting of the Asheville Homeless Network, thirteen were present with President Moss presiding. We began our meeting by signing in new members and renewing old memberships. To those who are new, Moss introduced the purpose and [...]
