All Posts Tagged With: "homeless"
COVID – Three Days In
Sunday night, January 16, I went to bed with a slight headache. I did not take any medicine for the headache. Fever and chills visited me through the night and Monday morning (MLK Holiday) I went to urgent care. By then my symptoms were headache, cough, runny nose, fever, chills, and some body aches. I […]
19Jan2022 | Gary Clark | 1 comment | Continued
Just Keep On Walking
Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal writer and former GOP speech writer, is an occasional guest on Morning Joe. A couple of weeks ago the topic of the day was torture. American torture. American torture of others – America committing war crimes as defined by the Geneva Convention. We wring our hands, questioning – What to […]
8May2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued
Homeless Community
This writer has worked and volunteered at the same social service agencies dedicated to cleaning up the river banks, to rescuing the downtrodden, to saving the helpless, threading the eye of the needle as a gateway to Heaven. We will walk through the Pearly Gates and God will thump us on the forehead with his middle finger, look at us in disgust, and then invite us in to the ultimate shelter from damnation. We will be seated in the middle row, the homeless will have front row seats.
9Feb2009 | Ohg Rea Tone | 3 comments | Continued
United Way – Mission Lost
I have written before on the United Way. The continued degradation of their mission by participating agencies continues. This is just wrong. The United Way folks should look at their original intent – their original mission. Clearly the purpose was to Unite. Not only to unite social service agencies in their individual missions, but to […]
6Dec2008 | Ohg Rea Tone | Comments Off on United Way – Mission Lost | Continued
United Way – uniting community?
Son, There are many social service agencies in all communities that compete for the limited local dollars available. The imperative of local communities is that they respect the dollars donated and use these dollars wisely. The United Way was formulated, I think in the 1960’s, to offer the synergy of cooperation among social service agencies. […]
16Oct2007 | Ohg Rea Tone | 2 comments | Continued