The Rescue Mission’s industrial freezer was too full to walk into earlier this week, thanks to the donation of 110 turkeys from the Rotary Club of Eureka.
Rotary president Matthew Owen said he put the call out to Rotary members after finding that the shelter only had 10 turkeys to feed the 100-plus people expected at their holiday dinner. On Monday Rotary members arrived with a truck full of frozen turkeys, which were purchased at a discount from Safeway and Grocery Outlet.
Bryan Hall, executive director of the Mission, expressed his gratitude on Facebook, posting the video including below and saying, “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” On Nov. 20 the Mission provided shelter for 153 men, women and children. Hall added that they are still in need of coats and gloves. Many people come to the Mission for dinner but then return to the chill of the night, and Mission staff try to outfit them with warm clothing and hygiene kits before they go.
The Mission’s holiday dinner takes place the day before Thanksgiving. Just down the street, St. Vincent dePaul’s dining center was preparing to feed around 500 people on Thanksgiving Day. The center’s cook, Mary Price, said they had received 12 hams and 27 turkeys, enough to tide them over until Christmas. Community donations of hams, pies, vegetables and other food are still welcome up until 11 a.m. on Thanksgiving day, when the feast begins.
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Sweet little holiday burb AND ZERO winter shelters ANYWHERE, Arcata house full with long waiting list. Religious teachings at Rescue Mission hellish for many.
And for those with dogs (who have cared for them long-term) nothing. People lament the full animal shelters yet instead of helping people KEEP their dog the general public majoirty CHOOSES to have dogs caged indefinitely in cramped over-full shelters or disappear into some “Non-profit” whose owners make a salary (aka PROFIT) on charging to take in the pets of others and on charity of donations yet homeless get no charity, not enough to survive and heal (putting down the dogs would be kinder). Meanwhile the “Charitable” get praised. It is the homeless who are enduring hell who deserve some amazement for not having killed themselves yet…though many have and it goes entirely unreported as the housed sleep warm in their beds after dinner and tv. Unscrupulous growers want to adopt dogs to let them run loose and protect their property, but they can pay rent so they are winners!
Meanwhile, the homeless after turkey will have to do drugs or drink to try and withstand the agony of homelessness. So much food in this county it goes to waist and waste. No housing though nor mental health place for long-term recovery. At least they will have a full belly when they get sick and die in the wet and cold and unsheltered while turkey donators pat themselves on the back.
Meanwhile in 2015 “Readers also liked…”
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what happened to that?