Extreme temperatures leave California's Homeless Children in danger

[RLF]

Due to record-breaking temperatures that reached in excess of 114 degress, Shasta County officials were ordered by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to open a cooling center for the nearly three thousand Shasta County residents who were determined to be homeless in a 2006 survey. This figure includes nearly one-thousand children, which was an increase of 45 percent over the previous year, making the most vulnerable and defenseless members of our community the fastest growing segment of that group. Unfortunately, local officials chose to locate this cooling center in a small town 10 miles from Redding, which is the major population center of the county. In addition, the primary agencies serving the homeless in Shasta County refused to either provide homeless families with bus fare to reach this center, or to even publicize the fact that this refuge from the intense heat was available to a clientele which typically doesn't have access to a televison or newspaper. The "cooling center" itself provided no bottled water or other services. However, bottled water was being sold by fairgrounds personnel for a dollar a bottle! More than thirty individuals were taken to hospitals in Redding due to heat-related emergencies. Thank you, Governor Schwarzenegger, for your gestures of compassion, which regretably was wasted in an area where local administrators are anything but compassionate toward the poor in general and the homeless in particular


Welcome to Redding CA Loaves and Fishes Ministry - Additional 300 kids are suffering among the homeless

[AVengeance]

Maybe some nice church people would help out, if they weren't being taxed to death to create some nonsense "cooling shelter". Oh wait, Cali is all gay and liberal. Nevermind.

And someone, where's that THINK OF THE CHILDREN graphic? This is a perfect place for it.

[thomez]

If you are homeless and living on the streets with children the state should be at least considering taking them away from you.

If you are staying in shelters every night or whatever that's different than living on the streets and not providing water for your child when it is 114*.

[DosEquis]

They obviously need a better monkeysphere.