Living Hope Day Center faces imminent closure with no interim location set

Donnie Dublin was once a client at the Day Center, but more recently became a volunteer. He says the upcoming closure is hard to stomach — for him and for the homeless folks who come here.

“For me it’s been, I get kind of choked up, so but it’s been kind of rough for me, because I love volunteering, you know, I’m saying, so, and now it’s only gonna be one day a week, so that’s gonna put me with having to find something else or somewhere else, and I wouldn’t want to volunteer nowhere else, but here. This is my second home. I love it,” he said.

Dublin says it’s going to be a problem for downtown Wilmington — people are using the library more to escape the weather, and staying out of the heat…

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