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A new home for six women

Written October 9th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

Albany Helping Hands is preparing to remodel a house in the Willamette Neighborhood for six women who can’t find anywhere else to live.

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Tags: Albany housing, Helping Hands, homeless, housing

Why the ‘blessing box’ is gone

Written March 12th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

It began as a private project to help people in need. But it became a nuisance and even a threat to the woman who started it. So now her “blessing box” is gone.

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Tags: Albany homeless, blessing box. Christine Withers Rayburn, homeless

Cure homelessness, but how?

Written December 14th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 18 responses.

Albany is about to stage another annual event to remember and mourn people who, without housing or proper shelter, did not survive the year. Remembering them is good, but doing something to cure homelessness would be better — if only we knew what that something was.

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Tags: Albany shelters, homeless, Toto fund

Bills and more bills in Salem

Written February 13th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

From bills on cougars to the homeless, it’s not as though the troubles of the governor have kept Oregon legislators from adding to the pile of proposed laws. The mountain of legislation keeps growing, even though most of the new bills stand little chance.

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Tags: cougars, homeless, Oregon legislature, right to rest, seld-service gas, tax increases

HASSO HERING

A new home for six women

Why the ‘blessing box’ is gone

Cure homelessness, but how?

Bills and more bills in Salem