Bethesda Row's Ten Thousand Villages will donate 15 percent of purchases made from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday to the outreach group.
This holiday season, many of us are thinking about ways to help out the community's needy and ways to give back to friends and family with the perfect gift. Thursday, you can do both at the same time by shopping at Bethesda Row's Ten Thousand Villages. The shop will donate 15 percent of all purchases made from 5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 6 to Bethesda Cares, a local advocacy group that works to help and house the community's homeless. The group offers services to those living on the street in Montgomery County and Washington, DC. It also helps needy residents with eviction prevention and works towards permanent housing for the homeless, many of which have been living on Bethesda's streets for years. The group recently helped house a 72-year-old …
Volunteers needed as Montgomery County and City of Gaithersburg co-host the 2nd Annual Homeless Resource Day on Nov. 15.
For the second year, hundreds of homeless people will be able to tap into Montgomery County’s gamut of health, housing and financial services all in one day and one place. Montgomery County and the City of Gaithersburg will co-host a “Homeless Resource Day” on Nov. 15 at the Activity Center at Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg. More than 30 organizations will be on-hand from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to offer information and free resources for homeless individuals and families, including: Montgomery County does not have data on the number of homeless people living in Montgomery County, said Mary Anderson, a county spokeswoman. The only available metric is the annual “point in time” survey by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, in which …
Some state legislators are looking to crack down on panhandling.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
By Brandon Cooper, Capital News Service Vanita Smith sat in the grassy median of New Hampshire Avenue, her body balled-up underneath her blue poncho to keep warm. When the traffic light at Lockwood Drive turned red, she uncoiled herself and showed drivers her sign—"Homeless. Hungry."—and walked past their cars. Over four hours, she said, she usually makes between $20 and $25. But there's a cost, too. "You lose your self-esteem out here," she said on Monday. If three state legislators get their way, it will be harder for homeless people like Smith, 40, to earn money panhandling in Montgomery County. Following the failure of a move to restrict the practice in the state legislature earlier this year, Delegate Anne Kaiser, D-Montgomery, …
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12:20 pm on Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Panhandling is part of life in the city that's been around as long as I can remember. Begging in median strips is a fairly recent phenomena that is dangerous. It distracts drivers and the beggars are in harm's way. It should be illegal for safety reasons the same as jaywalking. I believe aggressive panhandling is already illegal. Most panhandlers that I encounter are benign and can be ignored by … more ›