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Don-8r the
panhandling
robot-could it
really help the
homeless?
Kevin Fubar
Props to robot designers for finally coming out with
stuff that can make a difference, not that robotic factory arms and mechanized food processing and and
and… Whatever man, this thing is cute. It’s designed
on the principle that many organizations depend on
charitable contributions for their operating budgets.
Usually it takes legions of volunteers to collect these
donations, but in our modern world such tasks can
be done with robots just as well. Not to mention that
people get annoyed with panhandlers. Enter DON-8r bot, designed by Tim Pryde.
DON-8r is constructed from smooth plastic panels, it glides
along the ground for a set length and then stops to ask passersby for donations. The coinage deposited into the slot on his
back helps to power the bot, and he won’t roll on without the
continued support from passersby. This little robotic panhandler is designed to be branded with any charity of choice. He
says “ow” if he bumps into something and after receiving a
donation, says “thank you!” On one trip out he made
$25.
Tim Pryde is a student of the University of Dundee
in Scotland in his final year. He teamed up with the
Dundee Science Centre and produced this cute little
bot to raise awareness for the center and to collect
DON-8tions. People don’t seem to mind handing donations to a cute little robot, so don’t be surprised if
you see one in your future.
iHobo app returns, adds social sharing and SMS donations
to help support the homeless
Matt Brian
To better connect with the issues, the app also
iHobo, the iPhone application that puts “a homeless
encourages users to name their homeless person.
person in your pocket” has today returned to the App
Building the focus on personalisation, Depaul UK
Store, bringing with it features that help users better
allows users to enter their details to contact them in
understand the issues homeless people are suffering,
the future, opening up a way to donate by enabling
integrating social support and easy ways to donate to
SMS donations via the app.
homeless charities.
Facebook Connect has been implemented, sharing
The free application, which originally launched in
user progress and their experiences with friends on
May 2010, let users take care of a virtual homeless
the social network.
young person for a period of three
As part of the launch Depaul
days, requiring their decisions to
For an easy way to donate, has partnered with PeerIndex,
determine the iHobo’s future. Text GIVELOVE to 85944. the popular marketing platform,
Users could offer food money or
Reply yes and $10 will be to target “influential social netemotion support, striking a chord
workers and opinion leaders
deducted from
with the British public to become
during the launch” of its new
your phone bill.
the UK’s most downloaded charapp. PeerIndex created a list of
Does not work with Metro PCS.
ity iPhone application with over
the most respected, well-con600,000 downloads to date.
nected Tweeters which will be used by Depaul UK
Wanting to build on the extraordinary success of the
to target key social media individuals to spread the
original app and to increase awareness amongst new
word about the iHobo app.
iPhone owners, homeless charity Depaul UK has reiHobo version 1.1 can be downloaded from the
launched iHobo to include hidden ‘truth’ items, reApple App Store
vealing facts and information about the issues young
homeless people face.
Our Purpose: To Help the Homeless Learn How to Help Themselves
iHobo
helps
users better
understand
the issues
homeless
people are
suffering,
integrating
social
support and
easy ways
to donate
to homeless
charities
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Our Dedicated Readers,
Over the years I have written stories on just how much help we need. It is that time
once again for me to ask each and every one of you to help us in several ways. Recently
I have had so many personal issues involving my own health, the loss of my best friend
Johnny, now my loving dad who has just been diagnosed with two forms of deadly cancer. Last month after being told over and over my dad was cancer free of the liver and
pancreas we soon found out that the doctors made a mistake. Before I get any further
I ask each and every one of you to pray for my dad that he receives a loving miracle. I
will now say Amen to your prayers. Also please pray for Dennis James as well he is our
client and friend he has lung cancer. Better yet why don’t we all just stop doing what
we are doing and pray for a cure for all cancers? Cancer affects every one of us and it
is about time there is a cure.
With all this happening it has caused a major strain on this shelter system. Many
of you know that Johnny passed away a few months back but what many of you do
not know is that I got hurt trying to get Johhny out of the building when we had one
emergency caused by Florida Power and Light. Basically FPL caused an outage in the
building and when we told them Johnny was on oxygen and we had a backup system
running his oxygen and for them not to shut the remaining power off until they spoke to
me, they shut it down and we had to hand carry Johnny out of the building. When this
happened we had to carry him down three flights of stairs and I got pretty banged up.
Then about a week later we kept on telling FPL we had issues with our AC and other
electrical items that they broke- a small fire/smoke incident took place and I had to carry
Johnny out of the building again who would not leave because he wanted the .32 cents
in his shoe he kept on dropping his shoe in the fire exit and was not allowing others to
evacuate the building. I felt really bad after I screamed at him to let the shoe go so I
could carry him out. Johnny had one leg missing and he did not have his prosthetics’
on so he was trying to walk down the stairs with just one leg. I kept on getting banged
against the wall and missing steps and having short little falls that ripped some of my
tendons in half. Smoke was coming in through the AC that was damaged by the first
FPL incident and we did not know exactly what was on fire, but what we did know was
that smoke is what causes most deaths in a fire so getting everyone out of the building
was very important. From all of this I have to have six surgeries. My left foot, my left
knee, my right knee, and both shoulders and a hernia surgery. I also reinjured my back
and neck which was pretty good in the last seven years. Then I must have tore up my
hips or my hips now hurt and burn so bad maybe because of the way I am limping from
my other injuries. I have been in and out of a wheel chair for about the last six months
and only doing my board responsibilities. The old Sean Cononie is not able to perform
running the shelter like I use to. As soon as I lose some weight they are willing to do
the surgeries to get me back to being somewhat normal , I hope. However, losing the
weight has been hard so I am kind of in a standstill presently. The shelter has lost me
from my every day work at the shelter. From this, we had to hire more people to fill in
for me. Plus with me not doing my normal work trying to get funds in to the shelter
system it has caused some setbacks.
For those of you that knew Johnny or knew of him you knew he gave me personal
strength for this whole agency was started because of him. Anytime I wanted to quit
because of the hours I put in and the personal stress I would run into Johnny who just
being in his presence made this man know in his heart that I needed to be here helping
people like him. There was something so beautiful about this homeless man who had
a heart bigger than anyone I ever knew. His smiles, his comments and his warmth was
what I needed. Losing Johnny was like losing a child of special needs. I really miss him
and so do all the clients who live here. Johnny was the backbone of COSAC for he was
the King of COSAC. His bed was outside my office door because he did not like to be
closed up in a room. So as I made my way in and out of my office many times thought
out the day Johnny and I had always time to talk. If John was eating something he was
quick to offer it to me. Johnny had nothing but was always willing to share whatever
he had in his hands. If he was holding something in his hands he always offered to
share it with me or many others. Still to this day his bed is still there in the hallway
saved for special people who will come to us in the future. I know he is smiling from
heaven knowing that his little area he lived in
* Carmen Cononie
for so many years is now used for others who
* Mary Summers
are special and need more assistance than other
* Cassandra Wilson
clients.
* Charlene Duarte
My loving dad who still coached till the age of
* Rusty Columbo
70 has been stricken with cancer. My poor mom
* Devon Bailey & Family
who has been married for well over 50 years to
* Maria Dragon
him is sad but amazingly enough is holding on.
* Vemonda Lane & Family
My mom was always a worry wart but God has
* Charlie
given her so much strength so she can repeat* Mr. Mike
edly say to my dad positive things and for him
* Tiffany
not to worry about her. When my dad found out
* Dvora
he was terminal his first words out of his mouth
* Ed Giampietro
was who was going to take care of mom. I reas* Kristan David Perez
sured him that we, his children who he raised
* Tommy & Joe
with the morals they both gave us meant that
* Geralyn
* Little Ryan
no way would mom be forgotten about and that
* Earnest Bowens & Family
mom would have everything she needed, but my
* Ed & Ruth
dad meant more than ever who was going fill in
* Rudy
for him. My mom and dad were always together
* Lisa
and the best times they had were at the ball park
* John McLean
watching the grandkids play ball. They would
* Darren
go to at least five games a week and then would
Cathy’s Prayer List
go to the school my sister was the athletic director of and go to all the games and watch the
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students play ball as well. Yes my dad played
call 954-410-6275, no monetary professional baseball for the Washington Senadonations needed
tors in the late 50’s and my mom also married
the word sports.
Even though I love the shelter and I spend ev-
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ery minute of my life there my dad and family will come first. I will be traveling back
and forth to Jacksonville for now it is five days there and five days at the shelter. In my
van sits six piles of past due paper work that has been due for moths. With me being in
and out of the hospitals and working so many hours I am behind in everything. Mark
has set up video conferencing for any emergencies and Lois and the gang is holding up
the fort just like when I had bacterial meningitis and almost died about five years ago.
As most of you know we do not get any funding and we the homeless create every
dollar that comes in to a shelter that serves the population that does not qualify for the
main stream shelters. We take the ones that are severely mentally ill, chronic and severely disabled. At the main stream shelters they only get in if they can complete and
graduate a program. This newspaper you are reading operates about 14 different agencies as well as getting one of the first jets in to Haiti with 70 doctors on board and thousands and thousands dollars worth of antibiotics needed from all the amputations taking
place during the earthquake last year, (Podcast Episode #6 on HomelessVoice.org) The
homeless themselves raised the funds, packed supplies into trucks and carried it from
one truck to the next. It was a repeat of all the hurricanes our disaster agency responded
to about five years ago when Florida was struck with one hurricane after another.
With all this happening to us and me, it has affected our funds and we need you now
more than ever. We need to raise about $500,000 dollars and we need to do it fast. Remember those days about 10 years ago when we needed to raise a little over a million to
buy the shelter. Well that happened and the shelter is paid in full. Not only the shelter
but a few smaller shelters are now paid off. All because you the people buy our paper.
We need each of you to please buy a raffle ticket by following the directions on the back
cover and then we also need each of you who buy our paper to send in a check for ten
dollars. If each of you did this, this would put us through our crisis period allowing me
to do what I need to do and allowing the shelter system and the 14 other smaller agencies to still run without interference. Agencies like our outreach agency who takes our
make shift ambulance out on the streets with our nurses and doctors getting medical assistance to those who do not seek shelter. It is so important for this to be done. Please
come by and see your shelter and our shelter, I say yours and ours because it is not the
governments shelter it belongs to the people who made this happen.
The Homeless Voice May 2011
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One Step at a Time.
The Homeless Voice May 2011
Amanda Suarez
“When I saw his smile I knew it was love,
His eyes shined brightly like the blazing sun,
My heart fluttered fast like a flying dove
He never failed to make sure I had fun
But quickly things changed, they werent the same
His love for me crubled in a short span
For all this pain he was the one to blame,
Missing him this much was never the plan
There is no use in being heartbroken,
After all every guy is the same.
Good things dont come from words left unspoken
You cant have a rainbow without some rain
As bad as everything now may be,
Things will get better with time you will see.”
Poetry is when an emotion
has found its thought and
the thought has found
words.
Robert Frost
Adrian Mederos
Spellbinding love
The pen is no mightier than the sword,
As war has become inevitable.
Leaders only seek the greater reward,
Played have memoires unforgettable.
We know with our conflicts come death and blood,
Yet we kill with a lack of self control.
Only when the body sounds of a thud,
Do we think we have accomplished a goal.
Our children missed as soon as they were flown,
Quickly they leave just after selection.
Parents heartbroken out living their own,
And in the end they miss their affection.
Rather watching the ongoing blood bath,
we should be ending the butchers death wrath.
Grace Gutierrez
Like winters bitter cold love aches my heart
My only dream is for him to love me
His smile to me is like a piece of art
The rarest painting anyone will see
He is walking by my heart skips a beat
With every step a piece of me he takes
To see him for a second is a treat
Sweeter than a double chocolate cake
Seeing his love notes everywhere I went
And to my surprise he knew me so well
Blinded by the pain was time not well spent
For we were both caught under a love spell
Happy to see I was wrong all along
Happy to be in his arms all day long
Pennsylvania
Annabel Alvarez
“The white snow crushing under my small feet The
trees tall as mountains, swayed with the wind Snow
covering houses like a large sheet To such a pretty
sight people have grinned.
The sky filled with large white puffs of cotton The sun
shining over like one bright light This precious scene
will never be rotten The wind pushing you with all it’s
great might
Such marvelous creatures roam through the land The
scent of pine trees filling your nostrils I catch little
snowflakes in my bare hand Oh, the fantastic cold
gives me great chills!
This is the place, the land that I cherish Never would I
want to see it perish.”
Alec Sanchez
Is this game that I play all day, my life?
This game that I play with all of my might;
I must treat with love, as if it’s my wife.
I will not give up if it still feels right.
As the final chance comes near, we shall hear?
All the fans rise up, with the will to stand;
While biting their nails and screaming in fear;
They all know that the end will not be bland.
Shall the crowd be pleased with an awesome win?
The tension rises all throughout the land;
Knowing a lose today would be a sin;
We all play with the reason, to be grand.
Though the game was a lose, we truly won;
This game that is now my internal sun
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Unrequited Love
DANIEL GONZALEZ
Asad Mirza
Emelly Rincon
JUST A PAGE OF WHAT I FEEL
Why think of yourself to be others blame Being
the same as those in masquerades Take pride in
what erupts your heart in flame Do not feel any
fear, lest your heart get raid
I have cried many tears all to your name Making my love for
you stronger each day Although it’s my thoughts that’s really
to blame It seems that my heart won’t keep you away
YOU ARE AS WONDERFUL AS YOU ARE NICE
Being a duplicate is a true bore
No true voice is in the majority
People have forgotten, why not explore
Thoughts and hopes lie with the minority
These cocoons of conformity, all loathe
Their shell of today’s norm, break the shackles
Dismay now, the sadists in their abode Be the sole
cloud in the sky to tackle
YOUR EYES AS WONDERFUL AS ICY SKYS
THE SUN NOT AS BRIGHT AS YOU ARE
And after all the pain you caused me
You seem to move on without a regret
My love like the sun made it hard to see That not seeing me
would make you forget
YOU ARE AS COLORFUL AS CAN BE
YOU HAVE THE PERFECT PERSONALITY
YOU ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE
So go ahead and move on with your life
Because soon that’s what I’ll be doing too Our relationship
was nothing but strife But like a first kiss I won’t forget you
I REALLY NEDD TO FACE REALITY
YOUR HEART IS AS WARM AS A BLAZING FIRE
So even though you’ll always be nearby
I realize that this is our last goodbye
For originality is a light
A light that shines through the darkest of nights
I WANT A CHANCE TO TAKE YOU TO THE DANCE
I WOULD EVEN CROSS THE NILE FOR YOU
I WANT TO DANCE WHEN I TAKE YOU TO FRANCE
I CANT WAIT FOR THE OPPORTUNITY
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric,
but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
-William Butler Yeats
Your Eyes Offer Inspiration
By: Gabriela Del Rio
Sergio Salazar
Most people try finding their one true love But I, I was blessed with
the best ever I have no doubt she was sent from above I wonder why
they call me unclever
They said I’m infatuated, they lied.
They claimed I am too young. But who’s to say?
I love her. And this will not be denied.
Her smile lights me up like a summer’s day.
Why ask if our love is legitimate?
No, I’m not living life in a hurry
I’m telling you, she is my one soul mate I know who I’m with,
I don’t see blurry
You will be put down, more often than not, Love conquers all,
and I love her, a lot.
Your love has revived my once steady heart,
Your touch, a static charge, drives head to toe,
What pain it would cause if we ever part,
The angels in heaven would never know.
The demons below, could they ever guess?
Your eyes can see through my painted disguise,
The way your hand cups my face to caress,
And much like you, it leaves me mesmerized.
A grandiose honor, I can proudly say,
With his face unique, carved out of marble,
In your mind, I wish to forever stay,
When outsiders speak, they are all garbled.
Luckier than most, I can call him mine,
No matter how much distant space or time.
The Star
Tristan Coll
Stephen Gonzalez
-The Palace Nursing HomeVictor Gonzalez
I will not fail in bringing joy to all
The lonely and forgotten souls in that
Palatial place of soft and rich nightfall They call the “Palace
Nursing Home” or what?
A palace they say to the residents?
A palace they say to their relatives?
But far from feeling like tall presidents, Its dwellers feel like
vile, lowly captives!
Let’s not deceive ourselves into thinking so; Behind the window
waits your mother old, Every day one step closer to death row,
Never mind if she’s in a cage of gold!
For that which some call “palace” with such hail, Is not a palace
but a sad, dark jail!
Why were you always the light to my eyes, You are
as beautiful as a rose I bet you have been through
so many guys, I really hope I am the one you chose
Why am I so troubled to talk to you?
For I know that this has never happened, In the halls
so many kids I ran through When I saw you with him
my heart fastened Why was I so incredibly obsessed
I love you with my life and so much more Now think
about what I have just confessed Forgetting you was
like being in a war As long as you are someone in
my life I love you no matter who’s my wife
If I would stop and look at the night sky
Is there any star out there I would find?
That would compare to the shine in her eyes
Or would the stars give me a different sign
One that would make me question how I felt
One that would make me see her different
One that would make me fall and melt At the
thought that I would not smell her scent
But if that star did not shine like I think
Would I know that she’s the one in my dreams?
At the sight would my heart begin to sink?
Imagining what lay beyond those seams
But I do know that if I never try
That I will never live, to ever die
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The Homeless Voice May 2011
-Society’s Cocoon-
7
Yes I
Am A
Professional
Artist, Yes
I Am
- Written by Sean Cononie
Is she Homeless, is she a Homeless Voice Vendor?
Highway in Hollywood in the middle of the night always with
Maybe you have seen her walking down Federal
a cup of coffee in her hand. I did not stop at this time but when
Highway in Hollywood for years and to you she was
I saw her a few more times at different times of the day I made
it my business to stop and talk to her. She denied the fact that
homeless. Yes she was homeless and yes she has sold
she was homeless but I still talked with her and offered to buy
our paper from time to time. She has stayed at our
her a cup of coffee at the circle K. She
Homeless Voice Shelter now
accepted it. A few days went on and I
known as the John McCormick
her eating at our soup kitchen, and
Homeless Shelter on and off
I opened the door all I could see saw
even when she was here she had that
for the last five years. She then
would find her own place but to was two small hands holding up coffee in her hand. I asked her again,
then be homeless a few months a large canvas painted with a are you homeless Lynn? She said No, I
have my own place I pay $650 a month
later. Even when she got her
bunch of loud colors
for. Then one time I was coming back
own place she continued to sell
from the YMCA at 10 pm I saw her sitour paper a few days a week
ting at the bus bench and I decided not
for extra income. Who said the
to approach her then but to go back on and off for the next few
Homeless were lazy? Not this lady, far from being
hours. She sat on that same bus bench for almost ten hours.
lazy, I Sean Cononie say.
I finally said to her, Lynn you are homeless, and yes you can
Close Encounters of the Homeless Kind
come to our shelter. She then picked up her small bag and her
When I first met Lynn she was walking down Federal
cup of coffee and got in my van and stayed at the shelter for
about six months. For the next six months she did
very well selling her papers day by day.
Lynn, The Hard Worker Saved Her Money
and Moved Out
Lynn came up to Operations one day and said “Thank
You Very Much, but I found my own place now and I
am moving out.” She did exactly that. It was several
months later then Lynn came and asked if she could
sell the papers again. We told her she could and she
continued to sell the papers a few times a week. Then
one day she asked if she could come back to the shelter
and we allowed her to. A few months later Lynn, the
hard worker saved her money and moved out again.
This had happened a few times over the years. I know
some of you may be thinking drugs or alcohol. To my
knowledge Lynn has never used drugs or alcohol. But
there was a reason why she was becoming homeless
and that was because she was trusting too many bad
(Continued on pg 9)
Saying Good bye to Miss Marilyn
take pain meds end up abusing them to some extent. Then you
Marilyn Georges, she was a long time client, a long
have these doctors get busted and the so called authorities just
time co-worker and a long time friend. She came to
assume that all the patient are drug addicts. They don’t place
us after doing a little time for “Doctor Shopping” to
them with another doctor and there you have it. 200 patients
get extra pain medication. As most of you know for
who got addicted to pain meds and now they are extremely sick
years I have been fighting the pain clinics for over
because their doctor got busted. So what does the patient do,
prescribing dangerous narcotics and other substances
they go to buy pills on the street or they start going to many
like Xanax. I became aware of the over prescribing
other doctors just so they are pain free and not sick.
of these meds about ten years ago. When Marilyn
Now Marilyn, she had her issues and it was because she was
got here I asked her all kind of questions about her
in major pain. As she got older she was able to control her
use and why the doctor shopuse of pain meds and hardly misused
them at all. For the time that she was
ping? Our policy makers have
made major mistakes in dealshe was a fun and loving person here I only recall about two times that
ing with these doctors now
she finished her bottle a few days early.
who was not afraid to say,
because the policy makers do
She was most of the time able to do it
“I love you.”
not make room for people in
all correctly but things got worse with
pain. In fact they treat patients
her health. For the last two years she
who get addicted the same as
had spent more than 15 months in eiif they were common criminals. They forget when
ther a hospital or a nursing home. She would come home to the
people take narcotics for pain they are addicted to
shelter and a few days later would be back on a stretcher going
them and it does not matter if it is your mom or your
back to an Emergency room.
dad or the nun down the street, or even the Chief of
About a year ago on one of her home visits at the shelter we
Police, if you take pain medication for about a week
almost lost her. It was 4 am and the call came over my emeror more you are addicted and there is nothing anygency speaker in my bedroom at the shelter, “CODE BLUE,
one can do about that addition unless you stop taking
CODE BLUE, CODE BLUE room 205 Marilyn is unconscious
the medication that really allows you to be pain free.
and barely breathing unresponsive.” We worked her up and
There has to be a time that these new laws change and
used a breathing method I never used in the past. No matter
make room for the people who are addicted and not
what we did, air was not going into her lungs, she had stopped
treat them with felonies. Every bit of science will tell
breathing and we were trying our best to get that airway. Fiyou that if you continue to take them the need will
nally we got her to start breathing on her own and EMS picked
go up and continue to go up where it becomes unher up. She spent another three months back in ICU where she
bearable for any normal person to control their meds.
was very weak. As time went on she picked up her strength
It is estimated that over 80 percent of patients who
(Continued on pg 8)
Sean Cononie
A New Life and A Better Tomorrow
Staff Writer
If you call the shelter between 4pm and 11 pm on
certain nights you’re going to think we have a ten
year old working our front desk. What you are really
hearing is the soft, youthful voice of Miss Danielle.
Always regarded as “The Sharon Stone” of our facility by many. If there was to be a Miss Homeless Pageant she would have surely been crowned numerous
times. Although she looks in her twenties Danielle is
in her late thirties. She came to us many years ago
due to some minor issues, of course we all took an
instant liking to her but not for the reasons I’ve just
described. She makes you feel young and energetic
again. She has that combination of mature, responsible woman along with young still want to have fun
type of personality.
A few months ago Danielle was blessed with a little
baby boy. She was also blessed with someone as her
mate. The three of them now resides in one of our
outside properties, a remodeled house where they
trying to do his physical therapy in our parking lot but
can live with pride and privacy and the support of each other.
took the time to wash his hands and hold the little one.
Money is scarce as most of the baby’s needs are filled through
Sean was busy holding the little one but you could
donations we receive at the shelter, but love is in abundance
tell that he was secretly blessing the baby by makfor this family from all of us at the facility. We could not be
ing the sign of the cross
any prouder of Danielle, who has
on the baby’s forehead.
taken on the role of responsible,
hard working, caring mother and
Danielle caught on and
earned even more respect from
thanked him.
he makes you feel young and energetic Our hats go off to you
those of us who loved her just for
who she was.
again. She has that combination of mature, and your family, DaniTheir next move after they are
elle and may you all
stable here for a few months is to responsible woman along with young still have a wonderful life on
move out all on their own. Sean
your next phase. When
want to have fun type of personality.
the Director told Danielle to make
in doubt reach out to us
the step to move out but to do it
at any time. One last
slowly and have all of her needs
request to make to you
met first. “There are steps you must take and you must take
and the love of your life. When the little one grows
them slowly.” He said as he looked in to the babies beautiup do not forget to invite us to all those special moful eyes. About a month ago she brought over the little boy
ments especially the first birthday and all the way up
wonder all bundled up in a light blue blanket. Sean was busy
to graduating from school.
S
Hope Thorpe paying close attention of the Minister
who helped with the funeral service.
The Unknown handshake of love during the funeral
service Of Miss Marylnn
The Homeless Voice May 2011
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The Homeless Voice May 2011
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On Spirituality
Can violence bring about peace? This is an age old question
that I believe humankind knows the answer to, but continues to
try anyway. When a power abuses it’s power as in the case of
Nazi Germany, other powers are called upon to stop the abuse
and bring about peace. This sounds right in theory, yet throughout history what usually occurs is more violence for a longer
period of time. I was at a college commencement recently and
in his opening remarks, the schools president mentioned the
death of Osama Bin Laden. A good portion of the audience applauded and cheered. I thought is this what we have become.
To take another human life and cheer about it. What happened
to due process? Don’t we love America because we are a nation
that respects law.? Can killing stop killing? Is it sane behavior
to kill a doctor who is performing abortions? To come to grips
with all of this we have to look to the cross. The killing of the
most innocent of all who said, “Father forgive them, they know
not what they do.” So often we human beings know not what
we do. In the words of Saint Francis of Assisi we pray “Lord
make me an instrument of your peace, where there is hatred
let me sow love, where there is injury your pardon and where
there is despair let me bring hope, and where there is doubt,
true faith in you. Enjoy all of Gods’ beautiful wonders as we go
about being an instrument of Gods’ peace Deacon Bob
Bedbugs With Drug-Resistant MRSA ‘Superbug’ Germ Found
Mike Stobbe
Hate insects? Afraid of germs? Researchers are reporting an alarming combination: bedbugs carrying a
staph “superbug.” Canadian scientists detected drugresistant staph bacteria in bedbugs from three hospital patients from a downtrodden Vancouver neighborhood.
Bedbugs have not been known to spread disease,
and there’s no clear evidence that the five bedbugs
found on the patients or their belongings had spread
the MRSA germ they were carrying or a second less
dangerous drug-resistant bacteria.
However, bedbugs can cause itching that can lead
to excessive scratching. That can cause breaks in
the skin that make people more susceptible to these
germs, noted Dr. Marc Romney, one of the study’s
authors.
The study is small and very preliminary. “But it’s
an intriguing finding” that needs to be further researched, said Romney, medical microbiologist at St.
Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.
The hospital is the closest one to the poor Downtown Eastside neighborhood near the city’s waterfront. Romney said he and his colleagues did the research after seeing a simultaneous boom in bedbugs
and MRSA cases from the neighborhood.
Five bedbugs were crushed and analyzed. MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, was found on three
bugs. MRSA is resistant to several types of common antibiotics and can become deadly if it gets through the skin and into
the bloodstream.
Two bugs had VRE, or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus
faecium, a less dangerous form of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Both germs are often seen in hospitals, and experts have been
far more worried about nurses and other health care workers
spreading the bacteria than insects.
It’s not clear if the bacteria originated with the bedbugs or if
the bugs picked it up from already infected people, Romney
added.
The study was released Wednesday by Emerging Infectious
Diseases, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
Saying Good bye
to Miss Marilyn
(Continued from pg 7)
and was able to return to the shelter. She did not want
to go to the nursing home, she wanted to be back in to
room 205 with her loving Cat Mr. Mann.
For her five years she was here, she went form a client who was homeless, to working at the front desk. I
have to say I was quite amazed that her ability to work
so efficient really paid off at the front desk. She was
a very understanding person and when a person came
to us in need she was first to jump in line to offer a
healing and helping hand. What I liked most about
her, it was her willingness to help young ladies who
were abusing drugs especially Xanax, Soma and Opiates such as Oxycontin. She always went out of her
way to come to me and say, “Sean you know this girl
Miss Smith? She is using pills.” To me this meant
the young lady was in need of desperate help. A few
times her insight saved a few of these young ladies.
Last month, we thought Marilyn was doing fine, she
had went back to the Nursing home and we thought
she would be out in a week or two. But then we got a
call from the Aventura Hospital saying that we needed
to make arrangements for the body of Marilyn Georges. I about hit the floor. We had no call at all from the
nursing home that she had had a heart attack at the
nursing home and was transported to Aventura Hospital. I was shell shocked because I cannot believe we
got no calls because it is our policy to be there at the
hospital when people are this sick. We could have held
her hand telling her we loved her and prayed for her
soul. I was just so upset that she died by herself. I not
only said a prayer for salvation for her but I actually
apologized to her as I looked above.
What can I say about Miss Marilyn Georges? She
was classy, she was a hippie left over from the 60’s,
she had the knowledge of a rehab therapist, she was
a fun and loving person who was not afraid to say, “I
love you.” She also was a proud grandma. She was
a person who deserved a decent funeral. So we gave
her one at the shelter. At least 70 residents showed
up and yes we always pray for the dead asking the
Lord to forgive them for their sins. One of my favorite prayers I pray myself is that I ask God to forgive
all who have died in the past, present, and for those
who will die in the future. It is my belief that by me
asking the Lord to forgive all people of all times and
to forgive those who hate God or for the non believers
all people who ever walked the earth will end up in
Heaven. So today I ask you to do the same.
To you Marilyn, I love you honey and may you meet
every new face that walks into Heaven and say, “How
may I help you,” just like at the shelter.
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Yes, I Am A Professional Artist, Yes I Am
people and she believed their stories.
You Get Paid For Your Art Work, So You
Must Be A Pro
It was the early part of May and Lynn came up to
me and said, “Sean you are a professional artist can I
speak to you about my art?” I told her, “ just because
I have an art gallery does not mean I am a famous artist, besides have you seen the gallery it is very tiny.”
She looked at me and smiled and asked if I would
hang her painting up in the gallery so she could sell
it. She had said that someone wanted to give her $40
for her painting, but she wanted at least $75 so she
could make a $60 profit. I then explained to her that
sometimes I buy art work especially from homeless
people because I feel that homeless people are very
talented and to me, it helps me remember the person.
I also told her that just because I may buy the painting doesn’t mean I may keep it, that sometimes I give
special paintings to special people especially when
they get their own place. I hinted if I like it, there is
value to it and when art work goes to different homes
or different owners it makes that art work even more
valuable. The simple transfer of owners keeps her art
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(Continued from pg 7)
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work alive.
A few days later I got a knock on my office door and when
I opened the door all I could see was two small hands
holding up a large canvas painted with a bunch of loud
colors and at first I thought I had painted it. After I looked
even more I still did not see the face but I knew it was not
my work because it had a pattern and my work is abstract
with no hint of a real picture that made sense. Then I
heard a very shallow voice say “Do you like it?” I said,
“For Sure.” I then explained to her that you do not sell
art work for under a $100 for this size, the canvas alone is
at least $10 and there is a cost for paint. I asked her if I
could buy it and offered her $100 for it. She said no you
can buy it for the $75 and I said to her “You Get Paid For
Your Art Work, So You Must Be A Pro and you need to
sell it to me for $100.” I then wrote her a check for $100
and all she could do was to smile and then ask where she
could cash it. I then cashed the check for her at the shelter
and then she exited the office. I went to the security video cameras and watched as she exited the front desk area
and as she exited she was holding up the five twenty dollar bills and smiled so big- almost as big as her painting.
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