As temperatures drop, Woodburn’s sole overnight shelter has been hard at work providing warm beds for the homeless community.
The shelter is located at 1560 Hardcastle Ave., inside the Church of Christ, and is managed by the Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency in partnership with the city. The shelter is open from 7 p.m. to 8 a.m., seven nights a week, with case management, mail services, dinner and breakfast, laundry and showers available inside the church.
Before the winter, the shelter could accommodate 20 people every night, with Federal Emergency Management Agency tents set up in the church’s parking lot and room for people to sleep in their cars on the property. However, as the shelter enters the “warming period,” it has been granted a 90-day occupancy permit, allowing people to warm up and spend the night inside the church as well…