I will go into more detail later but the one most interesting place is the shelter that I am in in Trenton. Everytime someone signs in at the shelter to get a bed for the night the government recieves money per person. We have to be in line before 4 o'clock every nightand we are out before eight in the morning we get two meals dinner and breakfast. I think that all the food is donated with a few exceptions. As I have said the goverment pays per person per night. we sleep in prision type beds there are thre showersand aproxinitly 80 people during the spring ,summer season. I can not exactly say for sure but it has been said that the amount the gov. pays is about35 to forty dollars per night. We do get clean sheets and sometime pillow cases and towels about the size a little larger than a hand towel. but this is not always the case for the last week or so the pillow cases has been missing. The place for the most part is run by the former thugs that have at one time stayed in the mission and are now in some program run by the missionWe have a Women CEO that runs the overall place and it is she that makes the money she is paid very well don't have the figures yet but am working on it. She get all kind of awards from this and that groupfor her humanitarianism (SP) All of which no one believes she deserves. She is in reality funelling the money from the shelter over to the other programs her pet programs that get the higher profile and makes her look good. I will tell more as it starts to get interseting.
I have to take a breif monet here to let anyone know that does not that Trenton is the State Capital it was once a thriving industral city home to Ussteel American Bridge The Robling Wire Company that invented and made steel cable for suspention bridges. These companys together or sparate ly made some of the biggest and well known bridges in at least the USA.
Trenton besides Stoke on Trent England were the poterty capitals of the world Trento up until the end of WWIIas potery was than mass produced Many of the imagrents that came to Trentom in the 1850 we from Stoke on Trent an the years to follow including my family. Trenton potery could compete with Royal Dulton at one time. My greatgreat grand father's stuff can be Found in the Metropolitan Museum in New York
Now the bigest industrys in Trenton State Workers and the poverty industry which included transitional housing halfway housing drug and alochol treat programs abound hereand much more.
Beside the meals that are given at the shelter there is a soup kitchen that has two meals per day monda through thursday lunch only on friday. and it is not open on Saturday or Sunday. On the week end mostly Saturday the churches take over Some saturdays there are more than one choice and all are very good meals run by very good people. The Major Catholic Church St. Mary's Cathdral provides meals on the lst tw Saturdays of the month starting at 9 o'clock coffee and donuts. The Salvation Army has coffee evey dayalong with newspapers frome eight in the morning until 4 in thwe afternoon there is a large screen TV the and tables to read or sit and talk to your neighbors at the tables they havee their rule and for the most part are enforced prople must sign in as they two get funding from at least the city if not more.no one is required to yet on a daily basis thre is a bible study is going on
More later I am now in the local library using their computer from where I get my email and post to this message board I started by printing out the songs that I knes the melodys to as I am a folk singer. I have always had a think for songd about Hobo's they are still around the are now some of the homeless
So long I'll post more later