COLUMBIA — Two programs at the Voluntary Action Center’s Opportunity Campus in Columbia could shelter about 190 people Friday night as the campus prepares for its first winter.
The Voluntary Action Center runs Waypoint, the campus’s year-round overnight shelter. Waypoint could fill all 150 of its regular beds for the first time Friday night, Shelter Director Jessica McNear said.
She expects about 170 people. If the regular beds fill, staff can set up 20 additional cots in hallways and other available spaces…