Tag: pine st inn
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Food For Free in Cambridge Provides Farm-to-Table Produce for Boston-Based Homeless Shelter Pine Street Inn
As winter approaches, one Cambridge nonprofit has taken advantage of this year’s growing season to help combat hunger and homelessness. This year, Food For Free dedicated all the vegetables it grew on a quarter acre of farmland in Lincoln, Massachusetts, to just one of the 125 groups it partners with in Greater Boston: Pine Street…
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Dr. Lipi Roy Works to Serve Boston’s Most Overlooked Citizens
A decade ago, Lipi Roy was a second-year medical student at Tulane University in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina breached the levees, flooding the city and changing millions of lives. For Roy, it changed the way she looked at her work as a physician. “That’s when I got a sense of what it means to…
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Hit the Ground Running: Boston Marathon runners find inspiration in fundraising for charity
Ed Wholihan was cold, wet and exhausted, and though he was only a few miles from the Boston Marathon finish line, he had just hit The Wall. He was on Beacon Street, having made it up and down Heartbreak Hill while runners around him dropped like flies. The gray skies and steady drizzle had permeated…
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Winter in Boston
I’m tired of winter in Boston this year because it seems like it’s a totally different season from the ones we endured when I was a child growing up in Avon, Massachusetts. Back when I was a kid, winter was fun, but now it’s lost it’s flavor. It’s no longer fun to build snowmen, snow…
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Voices from the Street: Ignorance
The other night I watched an episode of “Law and Order” about a homeless man who killed another homeless man. I’ve probably seen it 10 to 15 times over the years, but on this night, the sheer ignorance about homelessness made my skin crawl. The episode touched on every stereotype about homeless people and explored…
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Out of the Wood: Transitioning out of homelessness, board by board
Idle hands are the devil’s workshop, as the saying goes. And while the phrase was probably crafted as commentary about the proclivity for young children to stick things into electrical sockets or come up with fresh ways to torment a sibling, on the northwest outskirts of Franklin Park, along a stretch of Washington Street peppered…