Service a reminder of homeless who have died
Photo by Gretel Daugherty—Pastor Gary Haddock, fourth from right, leads a group of about two dozen people in a prayer Sunday at Hawthorne Park during the 14th annual service in memory of homeless people who have died in Grand Junction. A leader of the Grand Valley Coalition for the Homeless said that as far as she knows, no homeless people have died this year because of exposure to weather.
Gretel Daugherty
Photo by Gretel Daugherty—Pastor Gary Haddock, fourth from right, leads a group of about two dozen people in a prayer Sunday at Hawthorne Park during the 14th annual service in memory of homeless people who have died in Grand Junction. A leader of the Grand Valley Coalition for the Homeless said that as far as she knows, no homeless people have died this year because of exposure to weather.
By
Melinda Mawdsley
Monday, December 5, 2011
It was early December, and one tree in Hawthorne Park had not shed its leaves.
The 30-foot-tall tree is a living memorial to the homeless who die every year in Grand Junction. On Sunday, as…
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