“We got a washer open. Bring your stuff on over now, okay, you’re early today.”
It’s a little after 11 on a Tuesday morning on Glenn Arvin Avenue. Catholic Action Center employee Dennis Johnson greets a regular who’s come to clean his clothes.
“Last week you were about one o’clock. I’ve never seen a man have so many nice sweatshirts and he can sing, oh, my goodness, y’all hear him sing.”
On this day, he’s songless and quiet, but friendly. He hands his clothes to a CAC employee who handles laundry duties – and the occasional joke.
“A, D, D, i, s, O, N. Thomas, like the saint, but far from it.”
Among the dozen or so they’ll assist today is a woman named Charlotte. She says she grew up in Nova Scotia, Canada, is 61 years old and has been in Lexington seven months – the last six of them homeless.
