San Rafael has approved permits for a few local churches to open their doors and provide emergency sleeping shelters for the county’s homeless.  This is great news for those who are facing another night in the cold!  Shelters will run through March.

The churches that will be providing accommodations need sleeping bags and blankets as well as other warm items such as socks, mittens, hats, coats, etc.  Used clothing as well as new is accepted.  Myself and a group of my friends are collecting items to donate to one of the churches that is in our community, Terra Linda.

To read more about which churches are providing services, check out the Marin IJ article from today’s paper.   And if you have an extra sleeping bag, or a few blankets taking up space in a high shelf somewhere, think about donating it to a very good cause.

I know that people don’t agree on what to do about our county’s homeless situation, but we can all agree that every human being deserves the ability for a warm place to sleep