Sentences with phrase «running the shelter in»

In Toronto, 31 percent of the people sleeping in city - run shelters in January were refugee claimants - up from nearly 19 percent a year ago, according to city data.
Besides the Leesburg Humane Society shelter, the Humane Society of Lake County runs a shelter in Sorrento for abused animals.
The truth is that unless you're in a position to take over your shelter system contract (like Rebecca Guinn in Atlanta or Brent Toellner in Kansas City, both of whom will be speaking at our upcoming conference), you're going to need to partner with the same people who are involved in running the shelter in your community and inserting your personal attitudes into the mix just complicates things.
Adopt a Friend is spotlighting DuPage County Animal Care & Control, a municipal government - run shelter in Wheaton, Illinois (about an hour west of Chicago).
FOA successfully lobbied Summit County to build an animal control shelter and in 1995, Summit County opened the county - run shelter in Wanship, Utah.
In 1974, there was one: the county's Animal Control Department, which runs a shelter in Astatula.
Doug Rae: Doug runs the shelter in Fremont County, Colorado.

Not exact matches

Carolina was 16 when Angelyss was born and they lived in a city - run shelter at the time.
The bomb, a dud, disappeared into the earth as Kovama leapt over the crater and continued to run from one shelter to the next in search of his familv.
I have volunteered in homeless shelters in two major cities and the ones that rely on private donations exclusively do a MUCH better job of helping the homeless and the poor than the government run shelters.
Oasis, founded in 1985, runs schools, hospitals and homeless shelters.
Many of those sheltering there ran to higher ground and stayed in the hills behind the town.
Some churches are involved in community services, especially emergency - care services: crisis counseling centers, battered women's shelters and other housing for homeless women and young people — many of whom are running away from physical and sexual abuse.
How dumb you all are, get real... why don't you feed the poor, provide books for schools with no budget, get the homeless shelter, instead you have some senile old fart making predictions and you're all running away to hide in caves because it's the end?
Hugh runs a nonprofit, in an urban location, that facilitates authentic friendships between the well - sheltered and those without homes.
We run on donations, and Linda goes to local animal shelters to take in cats whose due dates are coming up, as well as strays, and pets of deployed military personnel, so that they'll have someone to look after their pets while they're off overseas.
In between, I ran a treat swap fundraiser at my school to send homemade treats to troops abroad, the local domestic violence shelter + children's homes, and to raise money for the two animal rescues I volunteered at.
Christine currently runs Working for Animals, which raises funds for animal shelters in India.
The instinct to shelter and protect runs deep in his inner circle.
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The parks have grown in size and number in the last 25 years, and $ 1 billion has been spent in the last five years to refurbish run - down roads, toilets, shelters and trails.
Many single parent families bring in enough money to pay for fixed expenses like shelter and transportation but run out of money for food and other essentials before the end of the month.
«We've seen a lot of hunger in our area,» said Washington, who helps run a homeless shelter for Holy Angels Baptist Church in Englewood.
The 10 - acre park, which Director Larry DeGraaf describes as «run down,» will get three new baseball fields, a hiking and biking path, new playground equipment, a picnic shelter, a sand volleyball court and an in - line skating rink.
Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: «It is simply not acceptable that people are handing over their hard - earned cash to live in houses that are run - down, squalid and in some cases even dangerous.
And Jim Staudenraus, a Shelter Island resident and former Assembly candidate, is also apparently in the running.
Frank Commisso, Jr., an Albany common councilman who is running for mayor this year, has pledged to spearhead his own «audit of the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly,» adding in a blog post that «the many private and profitable companies being sheltered under the tax - exempt status of SUNY Poly [must] finally pay their fair share toward the cost of city services.»
They've questioned the level of need in the borough as well as the city's ability to find a nonprofit to run new shelters here.
He said that the city was paying more money to the Brooklyn - based Housing Bridge to run a Bronx shelter than a local nonprofit that provided the exact same services in the exact same building.
Aside from operating shelters, BEDCO also runs cluster site housing, where homeless families are placed in apartment units in privately owned buildings.
De Blasio's administration is requesting a change in the budgetary language that prevents New York City from using state funds to subsidize rents for homeless families leaving city - run shelters.
Animal Care Centers of NYC, a nonprofit that runs the city's animal shelters, opened a pet food pantry in the Bronx in December, and in the first month alone, the pantry gave out more than 2,000 pounds of food for 71 dogs and 50 cats.
One of the homeless shelters run by Housing Enterprise for Less Privileged (HELP), founded by Cuomo in 1986, racked up 31 critical incidents last year — the most of any of the so - called Tier 2 family shelters in the city, according to a review of internal records by the Daily News.
As he moves to open 90 new homeless shelters in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio is opening himself up to a new level of political risk as he runs for re-election this year.
«This is a city that wanted to run a marathon while people were just moving into shelters and unfortunately bodies were still being found,» he said, adding that the city continues «to stick their head in the sand» by acting as though the crisis is over.
Quinn, now the CEO of nonprofit Women in Need, which runs shelters for homeless women and children, said she'd like to see Cuomo's housing plan passed.
With a record number of 60,000 New Yorkers sleeping in homeless shelters, Christine Quinn — the former council speaker who now runs a nonprofit helping homeless women and children — said her onetime opponent Mayor Bill de Blasio had made progress but that there's still work to be done.
Staten Island only has two city - run shelters after the a Stapleton facility for addicts was closed in 2016.
Bedco will continue to Run The Eddie Harris Residential Facility On Chauncey Street in Bushwick, despite the nonprofit's history of building code and homeless shelter violations and various state and federal lawsuits, Politico reported.
At the time of his fatal encounter with police, he was living in a shelter run by a church group in Baton Rouge, LA and making his living selling music CDs.
The Peconic Bay Water Jitney, which ran five daily round trips between Sag Harbor and Greenport all summer long, might not be back next year unless investors show an interest in underwriting the business, according to a Shelter Island Town Board member.
This will create a series of sheltered bays that will catch and keep beach material and, in the long run, help to bolster the cliffs.
Conversely, high public debt countries are more successful in sheltering their regional economies in the short - run both in terms of economic output and employment.
The following remedies are fantastic to have on hand for when you cut yourself whittling in the shelter, get bitten by a zombie, pull a muscle running from a zombie, or burn yourself making a fire to cook your dinner.
I'm that fool you see running in heels with a jacket over my head to seek shelter from light drops of rain.
Natalia ends up staying at a shelter run by genuinely good Maury, who takes an interest in making her life better — but life is not that simple, and tragedy ensues.
► A woman wakes up in a shelter and finds a man molesting her: she shoves him and runs out into a thick forest where she hides and then runs again; she finds a truck parked on a roadway and gets inside before seeing her attacker walking toward her, she runs and he chases her, then tackles her and pulls her clothing off as she struggles against him; she manages to get away and the man looks at his hands to see black liquid and he runs away.
Running away, she takes shelter in an enchanted moving castle, where she meets Howl (Christian Bale), the perfection - obsessed master of the house.
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