SPOKANE, Wash. — CHAS Health held a memorial service this afternoon to honor 220 unhoused people who died on the streets of Eastern Washington and North Idaho this year.
The memorial drew dozens of community members to remember those who often don’t receive traditional funerals. CHAS collected the names through its clinic teams and community partners, reading 20 more names than last year.
“The help is ever-growing and it changes a person’s life, it just changes a person’s life to know that someone out here cares and wants to help,” said Ilze Zarins-Ilgen, a street outreach worker with CHAS Health…