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onths back we promised you all a new look for the Cosac Quarters Shelter. Well after months of saving funds and buying and storing paint to get the best deals we are now finished. As you can see by the pictures on page 6, that was then and this is now. We picked a downtown Hollywood scene of colors to fit in the downtown area. Hollywood has taken pride in this downtown area and we wanted to fit in. It will be our next attempt to fix up the front with a little office out front where we will make our lobby a little bigger and better. At the same time we are going to finish the remodeling of
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s you all know we are trying to pay off our current mortgage,
raise money for our monthly expenses, as well as expanding. With these plans it always becomes more difficult each and every year mostly because of the economy. So each and every day we plan and plan to figure out ways of first getting donations and secondly how can we produce income without costing the
the rooms and make them user friendly as well as maintenance free with tile on all the walls. With tile on the walls it prevents germs and allows us not to have to continue to paint and paint and paint once again. No matter how many times
we paint some new person decides to carve in their name on the new walls. So tile it is. The most exciting thing and I hope the city will go for it and that is to add a few rooms downstairs in
supporters one cent. First it was the Internet Search via Good Search where we make one penny everytime someone searches on the Internet. We did not do as well as
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he nation's foreclosure crisis has led to a painful irony for homeless people: On any given night they are outnumbered in some cities by vacant houses, and some street people are taking advantage of the opportunity by becoming squatters. Foreclosed homes often have an advantage over boarded-up and dilapidated houses abandoned because of rundown conditions: Sometimes the heat, lights and water are still working. "That's what you call convenient," said James Bertan, 41, an ex-convict and self-described "bando," or someone who lives in abandoned houses. While no one keeps numbers of below-the-radar homeless finding shelter in properties left vacant by foreclosure, homeless advocates agree the locations even with utilities cut off would be inviting to some. There are risks for squatters, including fires from using candles and confrontations with drug dealers, prostitutes, copper thieves or police. "Many homeless people see the foreclosure crisis as an opportunity to find low-cost housing (FREE!) with some privacy," Brian Davis, director of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, said in the summary of the latest census of homeless sleeping outside in downtown Cleveland. The census had dropped from 40 to 17 people. Davis, a board member of the National Coalition for the Homeless, cited factors including the availability of shelter in foreclosed homes, aggres-
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s homeless people were waking up on the stairwells and parks
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sive sidewalk and street cleaning and the relocation of a homeless feeding site. He said there are an average 4,000 homeless in Cleveland on any given night. There are an estimated 15,000 single-family homes vacant due to foreclosure in Cleveland and suburban Cuyahoga County. In Texas, Larry James, president and chief executive officer of Central Dallas Ministries, said he wasn't surprised that homeless might be taking advantage of vacant homes in residential neighborhoods beyond the reach of his downtown agency. "There are some campgrounds and creek beds and such where people would be tempted to walk across the street or climb out of the creek bed and sneak into a vacant house," he said. Bertan, who doesn't like shelters because of the rules, said he has been homeless or in prison for drugs and other charges for the past nine years. He has noticed the increased availability of boarded-up homes amid the foreclosure crisis. (Continued on page 9)
and community leaders were in a meeting fretting about how to get rid of them. Downtown has blossomed in the past five years into a city center with more than a dozen new luxury condo towers, a robust retail and restaurant economy on Las Olas Boulevard, and a jampacked bar district on Southwest Second Street, but the urban core also attracts more homeless people than any other city in Broward County. According to CEOs and others at Thursday's power broker meeting, the homeless are overrunning downtown like never before. (Continued on page 11)
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have been a single Mom for a long time and have to make the dollar stretch far beyond it’s ability. Being responsible for feeding my three boys and myself is a task that I still endure and used to be such a burden that I decided to take control over it and not let it control me. I have learned to be creative, fun and let the children know that just because it is tough it can still taste good, be healthy and fun. Always try to eat your meals together without the TV and I hope these recipes bless you and watch for more tips and recipes and remember when going shopping it is their job to tempt you into buying more than you intended, so take a deep breath, say a little prayer, use a list and be of good courage! -Donna Jean
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s technology grows in many businesses sectors, it can be said that the homeless have started blogging online to keep pace. For instance, there is a blogger that writes about political issues and advocates change from outside of the White House in Washington D.C. according to an article in Street Sense in 2007. Truly, this is a great way for homeless to post their thoughts and have their voices heard on a large platform. Best of all, the ability to create and operate a blog is free to all. Therefore, there is no discrimination, unless one does not have computer savvy skills. Access may hinder some from updating too, but libraries and other outlets may offer solutions. Personally, it sounds wonderful for the homeless to be able to take advantage of a journal of their ideas in a public forum. As a blogger, I discuss issues in the industry I work. It creates a mental release and allows the freedom to share thoughts with others. It could be said to have a therapeutic effect, and it must react the same for people in the most difficult situations as well. Blogging started about 10 years ago, and it has recently become a needed skill for entrepre-
Blogging started about 10 years ago, and it has recently become a needed skill for entrepreneurs. neurs. However, it has been used by average people to share their thoughts, similar to a diary from the beginning. Basically, it can be started by using Google, or other sites for free using an already created email with a password. A blog page is created and it is easy to write and update. Selecting a theme is important, and after it is created a blog page is established for viewers to see once material is added. Homeless can regain their identity by blogging because they can be removed from their issues through
writing. It would be great if professionals would volunteer their time to instruct homeless how to blog, and maybe how to earn money from it. The ability to assist someone to get their life in order is a great way to decrease the number of homeless. Blogging and homeless should be more common to allow their concerns and needs to be better served. -By Jamie M. Kisner
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woman was sitting in a restaurant waiting for her mother to arrive, as she sat there she looked over at the bar and saw an old friend, she had not seen in ages, so she waved to her and asked her to sit down. Her friend looked older and her clothes were soiled and wrinkled, she also acted very withdrawn. “How have you been?” She asked her, “the last time I saw you, was at your engagement party, boy I can’t believe so much time has passed, I moved away for a while, but now I’m back.” Her friend
seemed to just stare and look down a lot, like she was ashamed of something. “Is something wrong?” The friend finally spoke and began to cry, “I’m so sorry” she said, “but seeing you has brought back so many memories, things have not gone well for me.” “Talk to me” she said to her friend, “what has been going on in your life?” The friend started to tell her. “I got married 3 months after the last time I saw you, I knew you had moved away, so I did not invite you to the wedding,
She bowed her head as low as it could go and said, “I am nothing, I am worthless I deserve what ever I get and I’m lucky to get that.”
well my happiness only lasted for a awhile, I thought I had married a good man, but I had made the biggest mistake of my life, that’s when my life started going down hill. He would beat me on a weekly basis, he broke both my arms on two different occasions, and he busted one of my eardrums. I had to stop working, you know that I don’t
have any close family, so I found myself all alone, most of the friends I had, he insulted and would not have anything to do with me. He would tell me that he was going to kill me almost every day; I started being afraid of my own shadow. About 6 months ago, he left one day and he never came back, a week after he left I was told by (Continued on page 10)
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HOMELESS VOICE Medical Outreach
Previous Outreach meant bringing a Podiatrist, A doctor who helps with the feet.
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“under the bridge” meant that space really had no idea what I was way up that incline, in that little getting myself into because I space you can see from the road. missed going out on the last But under the bridge here was an “outreach” trip during the cold entire mezzanine floor that went way weather snap we had not so long in under the road we were on. Noago. I had radio duty right here in body there, but the next stop was the the office. I usually do get stuck gentleman on the bus bench. here in the office whenever anything I thought that it was a wongoes on so it was naturally assumed I der the poor guy didn’t run when he would be that night also. saw us all pull up and get out of our So tonight I had my vehicles. Officer Dunn had already chance…this was a medical outapproached him and spoken with reach, though, which intimidated me him, but even so… He said he had somewhat. There would be 4 nurses, only been homeless a month and had as I first understood it, George our no issues except he hurt his knee a in-house nurse, Officer Dan Dunn, couple of weeks ago. Hollywood P.D. Sean of course, who He got his flu shot, had all is a First Responder and…who at his vitals taken and after a little contimes has been known to tell a doctor versation we were on how to handle and our way. He didn’t say treat a situation and too much, but I think he rightly so. “Officer Dunn was pleased that we… So here I took the lead that someone cared would be the only nonin his black enough about him to do professional person, this. just hanging around… and white, not Out next stop was a real along for the ride you so much as an chronic homeless genmight say. This made escort, but to tleman who had himself me nervous. Yes, I actually lead parked at the edge of have been trained as a us to where we the sidewalk and up First Responder, but against that incline I have not had all that would find our mentioned under the much practical experihomeless bridge. ence. Checking blood people.” Apparently the officer pressures, oxygen levwoke him up for us. els, pulse rates, sugar My first comment to levels and flu shots Sean was that next time we should was the agenda…additionally, just a general check for cellulites and of bring some shoes because this man’s ankles for swelling. You can actu- toes were sticking out of his sock. ally tell a lot from a person’s ankles, Officer Dunn told me he had some Sean explained on scene. and pointed to the cart. We did our We had four nurses, who best to convince him to have a flue were about to graduate nursing shot and let us do his vitals, but he school at Barry University, whom refused. had come to speak with Sean about a We talked awhile and this week ago. They spent about an hour stop became a three-in-one. As we together on the issues of health and were talking with gent #1, this tall homelessness, Sean explaining the black, younger guy came by, made other side of homelessness as ophis way through our group and adposed to the official or government’s dressed the old guy on the sidewalk, idea of what it is and how it is. The who hadn’t moved from his Indian answer to their question of what cross-legged style of sitting, asked could they do to help, to be involved, him if he was ok, and if there was a was tonight’s outreach. problem. As time to debark came You could tell that they closer, our group enlarged. Yvette, knew each other and that the who is George’s wife and works in younger of the two watched out for the mental health field, Billy who is the old man. So now our group was also one of our First Responders and split between the two. I had to laugh Chris, the head of our security joined because this new guy was obviously ranks. educated and he chuckled that here Equipped with all the supwere all these health care providers plies we needed for the job, from and we were passing out cigarettes! rubber gloves to flue medication, we I told him it was because left 1203 N. Federal Hwy. Officer they enjoy them…and how at the Dunn took the lead in his black and homeless memorial gathering a couwhite, not so much as an escort, but ple of months ago…with all the to actually lead us to where we goodies that were given out, the would find our homeless people. cigarettes brought the biggest smile Eighteen years on the force to their faces. here in Hollywood gave him all the He quoted the Surgeon information he needed. Sean drove General on cigarettes being bad for our Helping People in America amyour health and condoms being bulance, carrying the 4 students and good. And he did take a flue shot. George in the back and me in front Getting a little ahead of myself, a with him. Even over the noise of the third man walked up and all he engine, you could hear the five of wanted was a condom. So now we them in the back talking shop. Billy had 3 groups. drove Yvette and Chris in Sean’s Gent #2 was telling us how Expedition. he came from a long line of medical Our first stop was a gentlepeople, just about all his family was man sitting on a bus bench on Sherior is in the medical profesdan St by I-95. No, I take that back, sion…..and why is he not? Because our first actual stop was under the he’s not going to talk about that stuff bridge near this same location. around the dinner table! To me, the expression All this time our old guy
This is what the typical outreach means to the Homeless. This man had an infection and was septic; if our team did find him in time he might have died. To him he thought putting cream on his leg would cure the problem. This was his skin dying. sat, unmoving, on the sidewalk carrying on a conversation with our officer. They have known each other for quite a while. He asked him how long he had been an officer…and that really struck me. I would have expected him (or anyone for that matter) to use the term “cop”…how long have you been a cop? It showed respect. Our next stop was behind some stores. Again the flashlight shone into sleepy eyes. It was a really quick stop…just a flu shot and bare minimum of conversation. Everyone had received water and the pamphlet we made giving information on how they could get help applying for services, such as food stamps, and where to go and phone numbers…not just ours…just general helpful information for them. I’ve been with Sean before as we would just pick up someone as we drove down the street and those homeless persons seemed so much more in need than the ones we met tonight. Except for the holey, shoeless feet, you could pass any of these people on the street during the day and not for a moment consider that they were homeless. I know we all had fun, it really was. Talking and helping. We who deal with homeless on a
constant basis had a little respite from the normal humdrum. I think the kids, as I would call them, might have come away with a little different outlook on the homeless that if they went out into their professions without this experience. We said our goodbyes downstairs in our parking lot with plans of doing this again. Again wouldn’t be sometime….they asked how about next week. Could it work out that this would become a regular thing? The medical aspect of it would be new; we used to do outreach but since Sean had meningitis things are not quite the same. He still has trouble with his vision and concentration and so things have gotten a little behind…we could use more hours in the day…and night I guess too. -Lois Cross
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n a Broward Circuit Court hearing that a defense attorney wanted closed to the public and news media, a recording was played in which his client William "Billy" Ammons confesses he thought it was funny when he used a golf club to strike a sleeping homeless man. Ammons, 20, is one of three men accused of fatally beating a homeless man two years ago in Fort Lauderdale and hospitalizing two others. Circuit Judge Cynthia Imperato had initially agreed to close the hearing. But after an attorney for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel challenged the closure Thursday morning, Imperato modified her order and allowed the media to attend if they did not copy or duplicate Ammons' statement, which was recorded on a DVD. Ammons and his co-defendants — Thomas Daugherty, 19, and Brian Hooks, 20 — have pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. If convicted of the Jan. 12, 2006, crime spree, they face life in
Broward County Local News prison. In his statements, taken over two days, Ammons initially denied any involvement in the attacks, one of which left Norris Gaynor dead. But little by little, with detectives calling him a liar and aggressively pressing him for the truth, Ammons admitted that he did the driving that night, he blasted Gaynor with paintballs during the fatal attack and clobbered a third victim, Raymond Perez, with a golf club. "I was hitting him in the ass and stuff," Ammons said of Perez's assault. "I thought it was funny." That final remark is not included in the transcript of the confession but is clearly audible on the DVD. Am(Continued on page 10)
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a parking lot that we don't always use. We can add one unit that can house about ten people and make three new offices that we currently rent next door. This move would be less expensive in the long run because the roof and two of the walls are already there. Recently we found out we have a middle floor that can be converted to office space. This would allow us to take the upstairs office and covert it into rooms for the elderly or assisted living room space. This would increase our bed space by 16 people. This can be our medical floor as well for detox or people who need more care which we call “Shelter Plus.” This would require us to move the AC ducks and some plumbing and make some dry wall space as well as a rest room that can include a shower. As most of you know I live only six miles from the shelter but I don't have time to drive back and forth to my home so I stay about 26 nights of the month at the shelter where myself and Lois basically live our life. There are times I do not get to the YMCA to take my shower and I hate that, so this move means a shower every day in case I miss the YMCA when there is an emergency, and believe me we have many emergencies. This conversion of the middle floor would also require us to have the current elevator stop there which means a big price tag. However the best part of this is that we get more beds and we will have more office space for groups and vocational training. These moves would allow us to be more productive at a lesser price tag in the long run because we don't have to rent space . We would build on land we already own. Check out the below price tags and lets see if we can continue to have more miracles take place.
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aster is the annual festival commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the principal feast of the Christian year. It is celebrated on a Sunday on varying dates between March 22 and April 25 and is therefore called a movable feast. The dates of several other ecclesiastical festivals, extending over a period between Septuagesima Sunday (the ninth Sunday before Easter) and the first Sunday of Advent, are fixed in relation to the date of Easter. Connected with the observance of Easter are the 40-day penitential season of Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday and concluding at midnight on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday; Holy Week, commencing on Palm Sunday, including Good Friday, the day of the crucifixion, and terminating with Holy Saturday; and the Octave of Easter, extending from Easter Sunday through the following Sunday. During the Octave of Easter in early Christian times, the newly baptized wore white garments, white being the liturgical color of Easter and signifying light, purity, and joy. The Christian festival of Easter probably embodies a number of converging traditions; most scholars emphasize the original relation of Easter to the Jewish festival of Passover, or Pesach, from which is derived Pasch, another name for Easter. The early Christians, many of whom were of Jewish origin, were brought up in the Hebrew tradition and regarded Easter as a new feature of the Passover festival, a commemoration of the advent of the Messiah as foretold by the prophets. Eastre (or "Ostara"), the Anglo-Saxon Teutonic goddess of spring and fertility was often accompanied by a hare when represented. The fertile nature of rabbits and hares is another symbol of new life and the rebirth that occurs during the spring season. Also, German settlers in America are said to have brought over the tradition of a bunny named "Oschter Haws" who would visit houses on Easter eve, leaving colored eggs for children. Easter eggs were painted different colors to represent the sunlight of spring. Christians later used eggs to symbolize the rebirth of Christ. Another Easter tradition is the eating of Hot Cross Buns. These cakes were marked by the Saxons to honor Eastre, the fertility goddess. The crosses on the buns are said to represent the moon's quarters, while Christians see the cross as a reference to the crucifixtion. An article from Funk & Wagnalls® New Encyclopedia. © 2005 World Almanac Education Group, A WRC Media Company
So with all this comes a price tag that includes the following: • Lobby= $29,000.00 • Remodel the Inside rooms= $124,000.00 • Outside Addition= $137,000.00 • Middle Floor Conversion with Elevator= $212,000.00 • Total= $502,000.00 Please remember last month we used emergency funds to pay off that current mortgage so we still have to try to replenish that amount as well. So we are off to yet another campaign to do what we have to do. There are many seniors who have worked their whole life and now have retired and cannot afford to live on their own with these small Social Security Checks. Many of them are coming to our doors and we must act fast to meet the needs of the country. Not only the retired individuals but now we are seeing that many Iraq War Veterans are becoming homeless and we figure we can’t take years to study the problem and then react. If we did what Uncle Sam did with Vietnam Vets it will end up creating long term Vets that will remain homeless for many years. Our experts predict that it will not take as many units to house them but to develop re-entry programs that are more efficient than the governments programs and get them to the point of self sufficiency faster and longer term. This is something that they deserve and we want to be there for them and to make something that can work so it can be shared with other jurisdictions so they too can offer the same service. -Sean Cononie
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HOMELESS VOICE GoodShop to Help the Homeless (Continued from page 1)
we thought on this venture but we will continue to ask our supporters to search on the internet by going to GoodSearch.com.
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If every supporter just
searches on the Internet using the same web search engines such as Yahoo search we will make one penny for every search and that can really add up. This month we have added the Homeless Voice Mall. This mall means you can go right from the World Wide Web and book your airline tickets via Delta. We will make $2.50 for every reservation. If you use Travelocity and Hotwire.com, we also make money for every reservation. The good thing about this is that your prices are still the same low price. If you need a hotel and use brands such as Wyndham, Sheraton, or Hotels.com we also get paid for every booking. Need a cruise? Go to Carnival.com How about flowers for the wife, Flowers.com Are you interested in buying something
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I see so many Amber Alerts come to my email account. I wrote this prayer several years ago, we all should say this every day, There are many who are still missing.
Sean Cononie
Dear Lord I pray for the one who is missing or being held against their will. Lord let them be found or let them over power the person who has kidnapped them , or please Lord at this time let the bad guy make a mistake so they can run and be free or fill the bad guys heart with love where he will simply do the right thing and let them go. Lord let them suffer no pain. Lord give the Detectives or the many police officers the wisdom they need to secure the person for a full recovery. Let their eyes not be tired and give them the skills they need to do their already hard job. Lord give the family all the love they need to get through this time. Lord I claim a perfect end in your precious name. Amen
Homeless Voice to Open Housing for the Elderly
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osac is opening up housing for the elderly outside of the shelter system as well as completely 100 percent sober living for those who have exited the shelter system who are drug and alcohol free. This is known as as Scattered Housing. We have them now but we rent, so this is our first home we are going to purchase since it is a buyers market. The second phase to this project is part of our Vocational Training Program. Our current staff will take new clients and teach them light construction so they can grow and get
jobs here for a weekly paycheck or even branch out to other companies who are going to give the poor a chance to move up in the world. This plan is a plan that should be duplicated because it creates jobs as well as creating low income housing The difference between us and the private sector is that we don't have to always make a profit for share holders, our projects can run in the negative or break even or even make a profit so we can grow and grow. By doing this type of plan we are killing many birds with one very large stone. Most
experts agree that grouped living is going to be big in the future if things don't change with minimum wage and become less expressive housing for the poor. This house cost us $140,000.00 and $20,000 in repairs and furnishings. We are in need of Home Depot or any other gift cards from stores that can make this project happen. Plus we need a washer, dryer, refrigerator, freezer, kitchen set, couches, dishware, TV’s and VCR's. Help us help the future of mankind and families. -Mark Targett
ere SHE is, The USS New York (LPD 21) , made from the World Trade Center ! SS New York It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center. It is the fifth in a new class of warship designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combatready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters and assault craft. Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite, LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept. 9, 2003, "those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence," recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. "It was a spiritual moment for everybody there." Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the "hair on my neck stood up." "It had a big meaning to it for all of us," he said. "They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back." The ship's motto? "Never Forget." Please keep this going so everyone can see what we are made of in this country!
With a little help this living room will be a place for seniors to relax off the streets.
The first house we have purchased for the elderly homeless.
Billy Robb and another volunteer working hard to get the house ready for occupancy.
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ecutive decision to rearrange our finances. Our mortgage is around $8500.00 a month and we have been paying down the mortgage as much as we can. I am in the process of using our emergency, expansion, and rain funds to make us more stable. This means we will pay off the mortgage and start over. Why pay it off? If we pay it off we will save about $7500 a month in interest as well as not having to make that monthly payment and the extra principal payment we have been paying each month. So what does this all mean to you who have supported us in this attempt to pay off the mortgage? It means a few good things. Finally we will have the “wall of fame.” This is the wall that lists every name that has helped us pay off the mortgage. This is also the time that you all send in your names to us if you have helped us. We lost a lot of the names when our office got destroyed by the several hurricanes we got a few years back. You can send it in by mail to, “Add my name” on the envelope or email it to us at myname@homelessvoice.org. Getting back to the campaign we had for the last seven years titled “Burn that Mortgage.” Since we are using some other funds we had to pay off the mortgage we will still keep our current campaign on until we have replenished the funds used to pay off the mortgage. I just wanted to be honest with you all to let you know that we are indeed paying it off but we You can set up payroll deduction through your employer to actually did support the COSAC Foundation’s Homeless Voice not do it with • Your company might even match your donation all the funds • See your human resource or department manager we raised for
n the last two months we have been finally completing some well needed paper work to get all in order. As you all know I have been sick on and off with Meningitis and of course I still can’t get this weight off from the steroids I got while in my coma. However things are getting a little better on paying off the mortgage as well as one of the worst things I could be doing right now, expanding ever more. I say the word “worst” not in a bad way, it is actually all good but some say “Sean, slow down.” When I developed COSAC I knew we would have to do more than just help the homeless. I thought whenever we could help change a person or help to fix a social injustice such as homelessness we should do it with our all. You see, we all have the power to make the world a better place one step at a time, one problem at a time, and one agency at a time. It does not take a rocket scientist to make the world a better place it just takes a dream and then when you wake up, start the process. Look at Aaron Jackson from our sister agency Planting Peace, he is de-worming the country of Haiti. When we went there years ago I said to him, Aaron, it is going to take a lot more than what we can offer to fix this place so kids are not playing in sewer water and eating nothing and developing a belly full of worms. This month I made the ex-
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that campaign. So we are still doing the “Burn that Mortgage” Campaign. I put the numbers in every financial program I could find and consulted many experts in the filed of debt reconsolidation to make my decision and I hope you understand why I made this choice. Now that we will save money and at the same time still try to raise the money needed to do as we originally planned to pay off the mortgage and of course we still need to raise the money for all our programs we offer to the homeless monthly. However, now that the mortgage will be paid off this also means that our monthly budget will be a little lower. We still need to sell our paper and raise about $100,000 a month to pay the bills for the electric, transportation, food, water, gas, and the homeless staff we have. Plus we have the most expensive part of our budget, the rents on the other six buildings we have to house the homeless people at our overflow shelters. So all this is great news and with all this we will continue to run our current programs as well as expanding our properties so we can handle the influx of the elderly clients who can’t afford to live on their retirement benefits as well as developing new agencies to handle any problems we can help tackle. So join our campaign and help us finish the original plan by going below and decide if you want to send in your pledge and be one of those people on our wall of fame. By the way let me say “thank you” to all of you who have helped us in all those donations over the years. Without you there would be no shelter that takes the ones who are
HELP PAY OFF OUR MORTGAGE We need just 19,450 people to send in a check for $20.00, Or 7,780 people to send in a check for $50.00, Or 3,890 people to send in a check for $100.00, Or 389 people to send in a check for $1,000, Or Just one wonderful person or business to send a check for the entire $389,000; We will name the shelter after you or whomever you choose Remember the donation is tax deductible!! Please send your checks to:
The COSAC Building Fund P.O. Box 292-577 Davie, Florida 33329 We do thank you
turned away by the other shelters. Sean Anthony Cononie
Foreclosed Homes Occupied By the Homeless (Continued from page 1)
He said a "fresh building" recently foreclosed offered the best prospects to squatters. Top 5 foreclosure cities by inventory: CHICAGO, IL, MIAMI, FL, LAS VEGAS, NV, JACKSONVILLE, FL, ORLANDO, FL "You can be pretty comfortable for a little bit until it gets burned out," he said as he made the rounds of the annual "stand down" where homeless in Cleveland were offered medical checkups, haircuts, a hot meal and self-help information. Shelia Wilson, 50, who was homeless for years because of drug abuse problems, also has lived in abandoned homes, and for the same reason as Bertan: She kept getting thrown out of shelters for violating rules. "Every place, I've been kicked out of because of drugs," she said. Michael Stoops, acting executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, hasn't seen evidence of increased homeless moving into foreclosed homes but isn't surprised. He said anecdotal evidence candles burning in boarded-up homes, a squatter killed by a fire set to keep warm shows the
determination of the homeless to find shelter. Davis said Cleveland's high foreclosure rate and the proximity of downtown shelters to residential neighborhoods has given the city a lead role in the homeless/foreclosure phenomenon. Many cities roust homeless from vacant homes, which more typically will be used by drug dealers or prostitutes than a homeless person looking for a place to sleep, Stoops said. Police across the country must deal with squatters and vandalism involving vacant homes: In suburban Shaker Heights, which has $1 million homes on wide boulevards, poorer neighborhoods with foreclosed homes get extra police attention. East of San Francisco, a man was arrested in November on a code violation while living without water service in a vacant home in Manteca, Calif., which has been hit hard by the foreclosure crisis. In Cape Coral, Fla., a man arrested in September in a foreclosed home said he had been living there since helping a friend move out
weeks earlier. Bertan and Wilson agreed that squatting in a foreclosed home can be dangerous because the locations can attract drug dealers, prostitutes and, eventually, police. William Reed, 64, a homeless man who walks with a cane, thumbed through a shoulder bag holding a blue-bound Bible, notebooks with his pencil drawings and a plastic-wrapped piece of bread as he sat on a retainer wall in the cold outside St. John Cathedral in downtown Cleveland. He's gone inside empty homes but thinks it's too risky to spend the night. Even the inviting idea of countless foreclosed empty homes didn't overcome the possible risk of entering a crack house. "Their brains could be burned up," said Reed, who didn't want to detail where he sleeps at night. Sometimes it's hard to track where the homeless go. Top 5 foreclosure cities by activity: LAS VEGAS, NV, MIAMI, FL, SACRAMENTO, CA, CHICAGO, IL, RACINE, WI In Philadelphia, the risk is
too great to send case workers into vacant homes to check for homeless needing help, said Ed Speedling, community liaison with Project H.O.M.E. "We're very, very wary of going inside. There's danger. I mean, if the floor caves in. There's potential danger: Sometimes they are still owned by someone," Speedling said. William Walker, 57, who was homeless for seven years and now counsels drifters at a sprawling warehouse-turned-shelter overlooking Lake Erie, has seen people living in foreclosed homes in his bluecollar neighborhood in Cleveland. He estimated that three or four boarded-up homes in his neighborhood have homeless living there from time to time. Sometimes homeless men living in tents in nearby woods disappear from their makeshift homes, Walker said. "The guys who were there last year are not there now. Are they in the (foreclosed) homes? I don't know. They are just not in their places," Walker said. Associated Press Writer
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HOMELESS VOICE Court allows recorded statement to be heard in homeless beating case (Continued from page 5)
mons' attorney, Sam Halpern, is seeking to bar Ammons' second statement from trial. He says his client was not informed again of his rights to remain silent and seek the aid of an attorney. Detectives leaned on Ammons to admit that he and his friends often engaged in "bum hunting." "That's sick," Ammons said of the notion. Specifically, detectives homed in on a post-Thanksgiving attack on a homeless man two months before the spree that landed Ammons in jail. "I don't believe in violence like that," Ammons said. "There's no reason for it." Fort Lauderdale Police
detective Ghalib Carmichael pushed harder, saying that Ammons and his friends hit a sleeping homeless man in the head with a brick near the RiverWalk. "You do this on a regular basis, you and your friends," Carmichael said. Ammons came around. "Have I been there? Yes," he said. "I remember the one after Thanksgiving." But then backpedaled, saying he did not recall any bricks. "We just went down there and threw a rock on the guy," he said. "But we didn't do it. The guy woke up and tried to beat (us)..." By Tonya Alanez South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Saying The Right Thing (Continued from page 4)
the police that he had been killed in a car crash. I had no money, no job, no friends, and I was evicted from my apartment. I have been living on the streets since then; I came here today because the bartender hooks me up with some leftovers once in awhile.” She bowed her head as low as it could go and said, “I am nothing, I am worthless I deserve what ever I get and I’m lucky to get that.” I could not believe all that she had told me, her self-esteem did not exist, that man really did a number on her, I said to myself. What can I say to her that could maybe show her a glimmer of the person she used to be? I did not want to show her pity, I needed to say something to her that could strike a cord. I took her hand and asked her to look at me, I went into my purse, and I took out a crisp and new 100 dollar bill, I placed it next to my plate, I said to her, “if I was to give you this hundred dollar bill would you take it?” She said, “I would not want to but I suppose I would.” “Why?” “Well, cause its a hundred dollars.” Ok, I took the bill in my hand and crumbled it up; making it into a small ball, I put it back on the table and said to her, “do you still want it?” She said, “of course, why not it’s still a hundred bucks.”
I picked the bill up and opened it, and then I threw it on the floor I got up and stepped and stumped on it, then I spit on it, I put it back on the table and asked once again, “do you want it now?” Her eyes were filling up with tears like she knew what I was trying to say. She said, “Yes I still want it, because no matter what you did to it, it is still one hundred dollars and it still has its value.” I took her face in my hands and looked at her straight in the eye, I told her no matter who steps on you no matter who stomps on you no matter who spits on you, you never lose your value, always remember that, I gave her my card and another hundred dollar bill and told her to keep the dirty one in her pocket to remind her of what I had said, and that every time she felt like nothing, to look at that bill, I told her to call me and that I would try to help her, she kissed my cheek and gave me a smile, somehow she looked different. She had her back straight and her head up and as she walked away from the table she swung her head back and with a confident look she said, “say hello to your Mom for me.” Thank you Lord for helping me say the right thing. By Mary Lou Gonzalez
Things We Need....... • Toilet Paper We are in desperate need of toilet • Ketchup paper. Sometimes people do not like to do• Ham slices nate money and would rather donate prod• Ground beef ucts. We spend anywhere from $1500 to • Eggs $2500 a month on this product. It changes • Milk at different times of the year. We need this • Juice product donated as well as many • Pancake syrup other products. What some people have • Sugar done was to set up food donation programs • Coffee at the office or where they live. One • Spaghetti lady last year made a little flyer and passed • Spaghetti sauce it out in her community asking her • Veggies neighbors to buy a little extra when they • Fruit in cans went to the store and then bring it to her • Salt and pepper house once a week. Her little flyer said, • Tuna fish “When you buy that TP buy some for the homeless and bring it to me.” It was so • Oatmeal nice to see her show up weekly with a • Grits truck full of supplies. She would bring her • Garlic power kids who were young like maybe five years old weekly. She would tell her kids little things like, “You see this food it is going to kids who don't have any snacks or food.” Once in a while her kids would be eating their own snack and they would come up to us handing their little half eaten snack and say “here give to peeeeopple who hungy.....” She was grooming them for a life of giving to others. It was the cutest little thing. So today with no delay start a food drive at your church or office or even where you live, allow us to put your generous support in the form of smiles. If you are short on your time you can try to collect gift cards from Publix and send them to the: Put a Smile on A Face Campaign P.O. box 292-577 Davie Florida 33329
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HOMELESS VOICE Leaders Angered by Homeless in Ft Lauderdale (Continued from page 1)
A Broward survey a year ago found 3,154 homeless people countywide, 701 of them living on the streets. The meeting was billed as a look at "safety, security and quality of life in the downtown area," by the Urban Core Committee of the Broward Workshop, a forum of business leaders who try to exert influence to fix the county's problems or bring about change. Some of the workshop members had already complained to City Hall about the indigents on downtown streets, leaving the rancid smell of urine, stealing food off plates at outdoor cafes, chasing away business and offending tourists.
"Homelessness is not a crime," he said. "The city of Fort Lauderdale does not
least of these, you have done it unto me, thou good and faithful servant." The meeting was then back in the
But before they could say much Thurs-
arrest people simply for being homeless."
day morning, a man walked into the
On an overhead screen, he showed a
meeting dressed shabbily, with plaid
picture of an unidentified man in a base-
"I think there's no one in this room who
pajama pants and a T-shirt over several
ball cap with a red plaster cast on his
doesn't have compassion," said devel-
layers of other clothing.
leg. The man was one of Fort Lauder-
oper Pamela Adams, who chaired the
dale's homeless.
meeting. "All of us serve on boards that
He has schizo-
help" people. But, she said, the people in
phrenia;
that room want their substantial invest-
"When you see people dressed
the
way
I'm
dressed today, disheveled,
dirty,
maybe
smelly," the man said, "‌ that doesn't make them derelicts, undesirables. On our streets, on any
When you've helped the least of these, you have done it unto me, thou good and faithful servant.
his
teeth have rotted away.
hands of the business crowd.
ments in downtown protected as well. "I understand homelessness is not a
He told of an-
disease, but ... when you're spending
other man, Nel-
$100 for lunch you don't want [the home-
son, who lived
less there]. I hate to be crass."
next to a dump-
"In the last four months, we've almost
dale, there are many
ster off Cypress
been overrun by them," said Tom Vogel,
people dressed like this
Creek Road. A
managing partner of One River Plaza.
given day in Fort Lauder-
that are lawyers, doctors. I've had po-
paraplegic since age 15, Nelson smelled
After the meeting, Steve Werthman,
licemen, and I have even had business-
of feces and used a stick to eat whatever
the county's Homeless Initiative Partner-
men like you. They're in a state of crisis."
he could glean from the trash. Drinking
ship administrator, said the downtown
had destroyed his life; he had lost his
crowd could start the necessary political
$60,000-a-year job and his wife.
groundswell that's essential to push for
He then shed his street clothes to reveal dress slacks, a dress shirt and tie. He was
the
1,200
additional
shelter
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A veteran named John walks Sunrise
dale police officers assigned solely to the
Boulevard. He has a huge inheritance
city's homeless people.
and a pension, but his mental issues are
The county spends $12 million a year
Costas launched into a speech that
larger. John grew up rich but fell apart
helping the homeless. But, Werthman
crossed into sermon. Tears streamed
mentally when his parents were killed
said, tough economic times bring tough
down his face as he told the business
while he was serving for the United
choices, and, quite possibly, more people
crowd that "these people don't have a
States in the Vietnam war.
without a place to live.
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disease," and that they "need intelligent
At that point, Costas was in tears
people like you and I that have all their
again. He borrowed from the Bible, from
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
issues organized, to help them."
the gospel of Matthew: "When you've
February 22, 2008 FORT LAUDERDALE
Any one of you, he told the crowd of
helped feed the hungry, when you've
about 40, is only a crisis away from be-
given drink to the thirsty, when you've
ing homeless yourself.
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