Wilmington’s Department of Parks and Recreation partnered with Friendship House to shelter and feed the unhoused community through the winter storm.
Wilmington Parks and Recreation Director Melody Phillips invited anyone without shelter to the William “Hicks” Anderson Community Center, which will be open as a shelter through the early afternoon Tuesday.
“Although we are a shelter and individuals can spend the night, they don’t have to if they don’t want to,” Phillips said. “We don’t want them outside. But if they’re like, ‘I just need some shelter for the day and they have somewhere else to sleep, not outside, they could definitely come in and just receive a meal for the day.”…