Sentences with phrase «shelter of last»

And, in fact, it is in a city that does have a municipal shelter which is the true «shelter of last resort.»

The open - admission Humane Society of Fremont County, which runs the animal control shelter for seven cities under contract, is a «shelter of last resort.»

For those who are inclined to believe PETA's lies that they need to kill animals because they are a «shelter of last resort,» consider the following:

They are not a «shelter of last resort.»

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) also calls itself a «shelter of last resort.»

The Muncie, IN, municipal shelter is a «shelter of last resort.»

PETA operates what could be called a «shelter of last resort» for the most broken animals.

Indeed, it is surrounded by communities with municipal or municipal - contracted «shelters of last resort.»

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Loreto, 42, was among more than a dozen undocumented immigrants who took shelter inside a network of activist churches last year.

Regardless, Buddemeier says sheltering in place for at least 12 to 24 hours — about how long the worst of this radiation lasts — can help you survive the threat of fallout.

Startups are finding innovative ways to bring food, shelter, and transportation to victims of the hurricanes, wildfires, and tornados that ravaged parts of the U.S. last year, as well as improve safety for those caught in other types of disasters and emergency situations.

Japan had a stockpile of them when the devastating earthquake and tsunami struck last March, and Weatherhaven participated in the Haitian earthquake relief effort by selling relief agencies 140 temporary shelters at cost.

Hundreds of thousands are still displaced by last week's flooding, many still living in shelters.

Birds in the branches of a tree, for example, are used in rabbinic literature as a symbol of Gentiles who in the last days will seek shelter in the shade of Israel.

For the last seven years I have made a VAT of banana pudding for the homeless shelter once a month.

The couple had been planning to visit KC Pet Project, Kansas City's municipal animal shelter, over the weekend, but late last week they heard from «a family of wonderful pet owners» who'd been trying to find a new home for the corgi — the breed pictured on her sign.

Last fiscal year, the food bank delivered 40 million pounds of food to approximately 600 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters throughout the area, food bank officials say.

The Greater Chicago Food Depository last week issued 806,590 pounds of food to 473 pantries, soup kitchens, shelters and combined feeding and pantry sites that feed the homeless and needy, said Executive Director Steve Whitehead.

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

Last night the Ali Forney Center had over 200 young people on a waiting list in need of shelter.

Concerns about safe shelter spaces come as figures from the Femicide Census released this week show that of the 113 women killed by men in England, Wales and Northern Ireland last year, 85 died in their homes.

The Saratoga Springs zoning board of appeals last night approved a plan for construction of a controversial permanent Code Blue shelter on Walworth Street.

Ulrich, who was one of a number of elected officials who protested when the de Blasio administration tried to open a shelter in a hotel in Maspeth, Queens last fall, did not go into detail about what he would do differently from de Blasio to curb the homelessness problem.

Graça Machel sheltered her husband, Nelson Mandela, from South Africa's woes in the last two years of his life, she told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Monday.

The insurgency group, who at the peak of it's siege on the nation occupied towns in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, used Sambisa forest, especially the mountainous region of Gwoza near the Cameroon border, as shelter and strategic headquarters until they were pushed out by the military on Christmas eve, last year.

The number of people living in city shelters held steady last year for the first time in a decade — a victory, say New York City officials, given the difficulty of combating homelessness.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER With the May 8 release of his final executive budget proposal for fiscal year 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio is making good on his commitment from last year's campaign to step up city support for homeless youth shelter space by 100 beds each year.

A quarter of the emergency shelter placements Erie County made last year were families with children.

Mr. Banks took over from resigning Department of Homeless Services Commissioner Gilbert Taylor late last year, and vowed an overhaul of the long - decrepit network of shelters.

DNAinfo also reported last month that the city's Department of Homeless Services ignored repeated warnings about the nonprofit over the past few years — long before 1 - year - old Scylee Vayoh Ambrose and 2 - year - old Ibanez Ambrose were killed in one of its shelter apartments in The Bronx.

A bill adopted during the final days of the Legislature's session last month would require all non-profit animal shelters and rescues to register with the state — a move that would make them, for the first time, subject to state regulation.

There were 866 homeless men, women and children in the shelter system whose last known address was on the North Shore, followed by 109 in Mid-Island and 66 on the South Shore, according to city numbers as of Feb. 28.

«Yet, after seeing what he students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School experiences last month at the hands of a man who should have not been able to obtain a gun and after having to shelter in place in my own school because of the threat of gun violence I've begun to stand up to protect my future,» Lily said.

Dougherty said at a town board work session last week that the joke he made before delivering his April 23 address — which was hosted by the Shelter Island League of Women Voters at the Ram's Head Inn — was seen as «disparaging to women.»

But the upstagings and rank - pullings kept coming — from Cuomo's blindsiding of de Blasio with an Ebola quarantine to a last - minute request for $ 1 billion more in city transit funding to sudden inspections of city homeless shelters — and the rewards kept diminishing.

Shelter Island Town Supervisor James Dougherty apologized on Monday, May 15, 2017 for a joke he told last month before his State of the Town address, a quip about a woman being «ravished» by a gorilla.

Dougherty said at a town board work session last week that the joke he made before delivering his April 23 speech, which was hosted by the Shelter Island League of Women Voters, was seen as «disparaging to women.»

A Manhattan homeless shelter overseen by Cuomo's sister has been repeatedly cited for deteriorating safety and health conditions — culminating last year with the death of an infant.

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.

Last week, the party's pols were on the steps of City Hall and in the Legislature, pushing against the Bloomberg administration's plan to charge rent to some people in homeless shelters.

The city has seen an explosion in homelessness over the last three years, with the number of homeless people in the shelter system crossing 60,000 late last year.

Residents have vehemently opposed homeless shelters in Maspeth, Queens and Coney Island last year, leading protests against the conversion of commercial hotels into shelters.

As of last week, there were 59,955 people living in shelter across the city, including more than 23,000 children.

An agreement both Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio agree on may be unlikely — the two have agreed on very little over the last several months, and Mr. Cuomo has repeatedly and publicly criticized Mr. de Blasio's handling of the homelessness issue, particularly hitting him on the condition of the city's shelters.

There's no question and I don't know how anybody in any elected office can turn a blind eye to the 4,700 people who stayed with us at WIN last night, mothers and children — 70 percent of the people in shelter are families with children.»

About 30 protestors from the neighborhood, along with City Council Member Letitia James, State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery and pop singer Crystal Waters, who sang her hit «Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless),» protested last week in front of the shelter and down the street from it at Freddy's Bar (which is also facing condemnation for the project).

Councilman Steven Matteo and Borough President James Oddo said the last homeless families moved out of hotels that were being used as temporary shelters.

He voiced sharp opposition to the re-naming of the Queensborough Bridge after former Mayor Ed Koch and fought last year for an animal shelter in the borough.

Last year, DHS began using hotels across the city as temporary shelters to deal with a spike in rates of homelessness, with 1,700 families placed in the Ramada Inn in Willowbrook and the Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and Comfort Inn in Travis, Matteo said.

The Task Force was established by District Attorney Tom Spota last year and consists of officers from departments in the Riverhead Town, Southold Town, Shelter Island Town, Suffolk County, and New York State police departments.