This afternoon, while walking on Broadway on Capital Hill, I encountered a young woman in a wheel chair sitting at Dick's Hamburgers near Denny. I asked her if she would like a meal and purchased a cheeseburger, coke and fries for her, acquiring in the process a free tall paper cup of ice to help her with the warm two-liter coke bottle she had by her side. Cost: $6.28.
She said her name is Lynette, and that she had been homeless for 3-4 years, but only in the wheelchair a few months, due to an injury. That raised a question: What does a homeless person do if they are injured -- who do they turn to? That will be something to include in the index for the upgraded Web site, homelessinseattle.net, which we hope to have operational within a month. The roughed-in site can be found by clicking the link in this paragraph.
Meals served so far: 32.
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