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Lisa Lisa Lisa, you always smelled so nice. It didn’t matter if you walked into the office in the morning or late in the day. And as nice as you smelled, your heart was just as beautiful when it came to helping those around you. You had a special way of listening and talking to the clients and somehow they always felt better when your talks were over. You were doing that before you ever started to “work” here. Remember the time when you just took over helping that old lady? She wasn’t a client but you just found out that she needed help and you were there. With all the things you did around here to help out, you finally found your niche when you started in case management. There was a fine line between personal relationships with your co-workers and the business relationship. You treated everyone like they were your best friend. Robb was so proud of how well you had picked up on what you had to do in your new job. Sean chuckled on how you would just come in and patiently stand in front of his desk, until he was free, to tell him how you handled something that you knew you did good on. And how many times did you come up to the office fuming because you felt that the world should be able to handle certain situations better…to take care of its own better? Remember the hours you sat out with the car raffle? Your presence around (Continued on page 12)
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s most of you have seen, this issue is about disasters. Why would we at the Homeless Voice get involved in the scope of disasters? The first reason is that when we first started up eight years ago we were not a homeless agency, although most of us fed the homeless on the streets on our own. At first we worked as a backup agency for the Red Cross and went to other disasters nationally. We also did other projects, but a disaster is something very close to my heart and that is why one of our first missions was to give aid to people who needed it and give it to them fast. If I had all the (Continued on page 10)
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he shelter sat still and watched the news of the incoming storms. At first we planned for the storm to hit here in Hollywood and made all the preparations to move all outside residents to the main shelter. So that meant moving about 150 people to the main shelter to ride out the storm. We also had to make plans to help the community surrendering the shelter if the storm hit and if people’s homes were destroyed. How were we going to do that? Well, we keep disaster food in our warehouse to feed the community if something should happen as well as 15,000 gallons of water for our little homeless community and the surrounding community. Our building can be used to shelter people and to feed about 5,000 people for four days with three meals a day. A little time went by and we knew that we (Continued on page 6)
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