Homeless help

To the editor:

Citizens of Lawrence, we feel almost deliriously happy that our homeless people of Lawrence have a place to be between 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. each day. The Victory Bible Church of 1942 Mass., with Pastor Leo Barbee, has opened its church for our homeless. How could our hearts have borne it otherwise, knowing that for six hours daily our homeless citizens would have been out in weather, which, Monday morning, had a chill factor of minus 8 degrees!

We await, with great hope, for the Lawrence city commissioners to provide the long-needed comprehensive shelter for our homeless. We urge the city commissioners to provide the Carnegie Building for this desperate cause. The front could be used for cultural purposes by the community.

We have an excellent arts center. Lawrence has an $8 million parking garage which protects autos from snow and ice yet autos don’t have a heart to know when they are being neglected and abused.

It is long past time for the city to step up to provide the building and the means to care for our own. The Carnegie could lift our own from their despair, and give them hope once more.

Mary Siegrist,

Lawrence