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Homeless organizations collaborating as winter approaches Brandon Leuallen
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s Grand Junction’s largest homeless shelter, HomewardBound of the Grand Valley, prepares to consolidate its two locations into one in January, The Business Times sat down with Joseph Center Director Mona Highline to get an in depth look at what collaboration is happening. Highline first talked about smaller community-based programs that can shelter as many as 16 people at a time and how they will play a role in helping during the winter months. These smaller sites, often located in churches or nonprofit buildings approved under fire code and with a temporary-use permit, provide some shelter options during the winter months. Even when HomewardBound is fully operational, the smaller programs fill critical gaps for people who might otherwise be left without shelter. Highline said one program run by Grand Valley Peace & Justice shelters up to 16 men experiencing homelessness each night in approved church and nonprofit spaces. See story Page 5
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Finding a North (Avenue) star RM Construction was looking for an area in GJ with great potential, and it thinks it found it on North Avenue. — See Page 2 RM Construction co-owner Bob Gibson stands outside a strip mall in the 300 block of North Avenue, where his company owns six of the commercial units. After doing major renovations to units that now house home-improvement contractor DaBella and Kim Kerk Land Consulting & Development, RM Construction is renovating the fire-damaged unit that will become its office. Photo by Tim Harty.
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