Gladys Tiffany, Director Omni Center for Peace Justice & Ecology
It’s been quieter lately. The renters are scattered and still struggling to find their place out there in the monitized world.
The couple with health problems has found a permanent apartment in Elkins and needed another $100 to cover it. Thanks to you Omni folks and friends it was available. The veteran is more or less settled in an apartment, and the two who are still staying with him are negotiating with his landlord to get another apartment that’s supposed to come open in February. That should be permanent. The two who moved in with us are getting acclimated, and the schizophrenic woman is in the woods.
This is the power of community to help people we don’t even know well. But it’s what we want our community to be. All the studies show that when a community is connected and cohesive it’s resilient in the face of shocks that can destroy a less-connected town because the people are already connected and primed to help each other in a pinch. We are helping to make Fayetteville the caring and welcoming place that all these new people want to live in. Let’s help them get acclimated to the real us. Many of them don’t really know why we have this community feel.
Thank you for keeping 8 People From Becoming Homeless by January 10 !
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