No Room at the Inn
Homeless Voice Plans to Beautify Shelter
An update from a previous issue
As you can see by the pictures on page 7; we are starting to complete
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his month we have seen a severe increase in the amount of Homeless Families. Usually we get a call once a week about a homeless family. This month of July we have gotten a few calls almost every day. It almost feels like the olden days of our shelter system back in the late 1990’s when almost every other month we had a baby or a family on our cover. In 2003 we had over 40 children here for the holidays. Since the county opened up more family units there really wasn’t any need to take families anymore because there were more than enough units. Off and on we would still get a family in the middle of the night and we would house them until we got them in the proper family shelter, but overall, the county did a pretty good job of making a system work better. It (Continued on page 6)
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the outside remodeling of our shelter. We plan to bring it to the same Art Deco format along downtown Hollywood. This way it looks just like a regular Hollywood Building and not a Homeless Shelter.
imagine it cost a pretty penny to do this clean up job and as you also can see we waited and waited until we had most of the funds to do this pro-
In 2003 we had over 40 children
ject.
We still are a little short and
we still need about another $2500 to
here for the holidays.
IRS Warns Taxpayers of New E-mail Scams the word out. If asked the question, The Homeless Voice’ Intro how many Americans got scammed any people become homeless out of their last dollars, the answer for many different reasons, would be in the millions maybe ever such as health, death, substance abuse more than 100 and also simple povmillion dollars. If erty. Lately we have If you receive an you asked us how seen an increase of senemail like some of much was iors who have become the ones we have scammed from homeless due to fraud people who actuand to top it off seniors mentioned in this ally came to our who surf the Internet are story, simply do not shelter over the among the majority of even reply to it. last two years the those getting ripped dollar amount off. At times it can be would be over $50,000. the average person who only has a It starts off with an email sent little money in the bank and then gets to the person’s incoming mailbox. In hit with a scam and before you know it they are knocking at our doors. In fact t h e e m a i l , “ ‘ Y o u ’ a r e t h e lucky person who has become a lottery it got so bad with the number of cases winner.” Other emails may be diwe saw coming in to the shelter we rected to you and yes, lately these even took the time to notify the Dept. scammers have started to market not of Justice as well as asking the Social for profits telling them that so and so Security Administration to send out died and they wanted the estate valued notices to everyone on Social Security. at 25 million to go to your agency. Or Not to our knowledge did they ever do (Continued on page 5) this but the FBI has been trying to get
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Palm homeless man accused of killing another over booze BOCA RATON -- A homeless man was in Palm Beach County Jail Tuesday after police arrested him for allegedly killing another homeless man during a fight over booze. Raymond Roach, 36, faces a second -degree murder charge in the killing of Carlos Reyes, 53. He was arrested Monday. Reyes was found by a jogger Saturday morning in the Camino Gardens (Continued on page 10)
Backyard Pool Safety According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, an estimated 350 children under five years of age drown each year in swimming pools, many in residential pools. The Commission estimates that another 2,600 children under age five are treated in hospital emergency rooms each year following submersion incidents. Some of these submersions
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result in permanent brain damage. Nationally, drowning is a leading cause of death to children under five. (Continued on page 9)