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Mobile outreach van, team serving the homeless suspended until further notice
The Action for Boston Community Development Mobile Homeless Outreach Team (MHOT), a program serving homeless people in Greater Boston’s Mystic Valley region , has temporarily suspended its services as the program looks for donations to keep the van running. Spare Change News highlighted the program in March when it lost funding from the federal government…
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Mobile outreach van, team serving the homeless suspended until further notice
The Action for Boston Community Development Mobile Homeless Outreach Team (MHOT), a program serving homeless people in Greater Boston’s Mystic Valley region , has temporarily suspended its services as the program looks for donations to keep the van running. Spare Change News highlighted the program in March when it lost funding from the federal government…
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Boston Pushes for Long Island Bridge’s Reconstruction, and Quincy Pushes Back
Boston city officials are pushing forward with plans to build a new bridge to Long Island and re-establish an addiction recovery facility there. The Boston City Council expressed widespread support for the project, calling it a needed expansion in treatment for the thousands of people affected by the opioid crisis in the area. At…
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Editor’s Note: We’ll miss you, Fred Boykin
On Oct. 3, we at Spare Change News learned that longtime vendor Fred Boykin had passed away. While we plan to release a fuller tribute to Fred in the next issue, I wanted to acknowledge Fred, commend his hard work for the paper and make sure our readers — including his customers — heard the…
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Stray to Tent A Forever Home: A Book Review
Stray to Tent A Forever Home http://www.straytotentaforeverhome.com What a glory! This book by Gary Clark is beautifully illustrated to raise children’s awareness about homelessness in a positive, loving way. It says that it is for children from the ages of 5 to 8 but really, this is a book for everybody. Really, I found the…
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