Closed for the season
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- March
- 29
Brewster’s emergency shelter program has closed for the season and here, from its chairman, John Hagedorn, is a blunt assessment of how it fared: “There were no recorded deaths from exposure this winter so we did our job and we did it well.”
A coalition of houses of worship took turns offering shelter to homeless people in the area—and providing meals and volunteers to say overnight.
The churches within Brewster encountered no problems. But Trinity Lutheran Church, which is in the town of Southeast, ran into opposition from the town about allowing overnight stays and from some residents who argued that the homeless people were illegal Hispanic immigrants.
In the 14 weeks that the program operated, it served at least 10 different people, according to Hagedorn. The highest number of people for any one night was eight; they had guests consistently from the middle of January.
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