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Look for our new pink shir�s John Plaster, Loss Prevention Operative

For years we have used bright yellow shirts and vests for safety, however things need to change.

It seems that there are individuals out there that are not homeless but are scammers who went to a store and bought the same color vests and shirts, standing on corners collecting donations that have nothing to do with us. Some of them even got a hold of our yellow shirts by stealing them when our current vendor was taking a break at the corner and then going to their own corner trying to collect donations. We have never prosecuted them but for now our loss prevention department is going out full force and looking for them with a police detail officer from each county.

To combat the problem we are “Going Pink.” Our vendors will be wearing PINK shirts. If you see a yellow or orange shirt out there and they say they are the Homeless Voice you can call our office at 954-92-HELP-1 or 954-924-3571. Feel free to call the police as well. Our vendors have Identifications that expire every so often so feel free to ask them for their ID and look at the expiration date. When in doubt simply call us. Or perhaps you prefer to send in your donations via check. If this does not work we will be taking their pictures and printing them in our own paper to stop them from misleading you all who give from the heart. If it is someone who is homeless we will ask them to come back to the shelter instead of calling the police.

We are going PINK and feel free to take a Wink at their ID!

In terms of how to help the homeless, there is really no wrong way to help and assist. Any help is beneficial for the community in general. If you are wondering on whether your money or your time would be a better donation; either contribution is helpful as both are important in their own way.

Giving money will provide clothing, education, food, and shelter. It will help the homeless in more ways than you may realize and the more money that is given, the more services and help can be provided. But giving money is not the only way to help – you or your friends and family can also give your time to the homeless.

Giving time is just as valuable as giving money. You can spend your time volunteering for meal times, or working on projects that will benefit the homeless, and overall, be there as a support and anchor when times get tough. During the holidays, many people love to feed the homeless and assist with meals. The Homeless Voice loves the holiday help, but would also like to kindly remind everyone that help is needed more on days that are not holidays.

While many look past the homeless, caught up in their own busy world, you can do something. If you have a desire to help, then give to the homeless, be it money or your time. Your contribution helps provide hope to some of those who need it most.

Our Purpose: To Help the Homeless Learn How to Help Themselves

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This year my wish for a good year is that we all pray for the Lord to send a cure down for all Cancers.

Lord we ask you to give wisdom to all cancer researchers and scientists so they can come up with a cure.

Lord allow the elected officials to declare war on cancer and make it a goal of the President to rid the earth of all cancer in the next three years.

Lord we ask that you heal all people who are dying of cancer.

Lord we ask this in Your name and we ask that it happen in the next three years.

In Jesus’s name Amen

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The COSAC Foundation was originally established in May 1997 to partner with other social service agencies, in the area, that provided help to the homeless population. COSAC also independently feeds the homeless. We have grown into a multifaceted agency that feeds, shelters, and arranges for each homeless person to receive the necessary access to social and noncompulsory religious services to enable a return to a self-reliant lifestyle. And for the small percentage of people incapable of living independent lives, we provide a caring and supportive environment for their long-term residency.

Our Vision To end discrimination against the homeless population and to develop such an effective network of services that we greatly reduce the time a person or family emerges out of homelessness back into self-reliance.

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Homeless Voice Newspaper Staff Publisher Sean Cononie Editor in Chief Mark Targett

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Dear Homeless Voice Readers: We are the small non-profit that runs the #1 emergency and response shelter in South Florida. We serve, house, and care for 500 homeless every day, and have costs like any other business: water, power, rent, programs, staff and legal help.

The Homeless Voice is extremely effective. It is a place where anyone in need will get help. It is a safe place for people to go when they have nowhere else to turn. We take no government funds. We run on donations averaging about 33 cents.

If everyone reading this paper gave the price of a cup of coffee, our fundraising would be done. If helping people is important to you as it is important for us, take one minute to go online to www.hvoice.org and become a monthly angel. $15 per month is what we need from You. Please help us forget fundraising and get back to Serving the Homeless.

Thank you. Please visit: www.hvoice.org/member

We Have Been Removed From The Streets...

For any new readers to our paper, I’d like to explain a little on how we support ourselves.

We run on 100 % generosity of our readers. We are not funded through the government and depend solely on the communities we serve. Distributing the free Homeless Voice newspaper has been our way over the last ten years to collect donations while providing a job and money to the transients of South Florida. By not accepting government funding we are able to accept people of every age, race, criminal and mental background with no limitations on how long they can stay or how much we can help them.

It is very important for us to bring the news to you as well so we can reduce the number of homeless people in the community. The more people who read our newspaper, the more we can educate and then help fix the problem of homelessness.

However we are in serious danger of losing that freedom. More and more cities are taking our vending rights away while sending more people to our shelters. Our supplies are running low and our bills are piling up.

If you have received this free issue in your mailbox, thank you for taking the time to read about us and the people who live here. We are a full service shelter and offer three meals a day, a bed to sleep in and the opportunity for counseling and assistance in applying for benefits and jobs. We offer much more and when the opportunity allows we often provide emergency assistance and aid in the surrounding area.We are in desperate need of people who can donate every month.

We love vistors to come by and see what we are all about. Please see below on ways to donate, thank you!

On Spirituality...Pray!

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Deacon Bob

Back when I was a teenager one of the great rock and roll bands I spent many hours listening to were The Doors, with lead singer Jim Morrison yelling, bellowing, screaming, out the lyrics. One of these screams of his was an intro to a song that said “you cannot petition the Lord with prayer “! I have thought about this phrase many times in my life and sometimes I tend to agree.

I have been writing to you for years now about spirituality, and our life in this world with God, yet I rarely write about prayer, or how we talk to God. Part of the reason for staying away from the subject specifically is because we all pray differently.

I would never assume that my way of praying was better or more effective than yours, and while I would like to hear how you pray, I don’t think I would change spending time with its parents and other family my way to match yours. What we have is members that the child learns the language. It is a relationship with our higher power and the same with God, we learn it is our higher power to pray by spending time with that teaches us how to God. We learn the language talk, just as a mother ...my weapon against of the heart and how to pray and father teach their with our hearts. This is where young. It is this talk- this worry and anxiety is God resides and is found, in ing to God that is our our hearts. prayer... prayer. What if a child I am afraid of many things were left in the junthese days. The violence in gle, raised by gorillas, the world, global economics would that boy or girl that can lead to large scale wars, our dwindling learn to speak? Of course not. It is by resources, climate change, racial inequality, soIf you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.

Do good anyway

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.

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The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.

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cial-economic inequality, and a host of others. Despair comes knocking on my hearts door, and I know not to let it in, and I know that my weapon against this worry and anxiety is prayer, because I can petition the Lord with prayer, we can, you and I. If we are believers and we subscribe to the Bible then we know that we can move the hand of God, and that before it was our world it was God’s world, and it is still God’s world. God will come to the rescue; God will save the day, hallelujah! All we have to do is ask Him. Pray! Pray! Pray!

To Be a Fast Runner, You Must Run Faster

Dear Miami Residents, The National Coalition for the Homeless is very concerned that the City of Miami is working to cancel its agreement with those experiencing homelessness in the Pottinger settlement of 1998. This settlement came about because of the excessive use of police authority to move homeless people out of the public eye. This was callous example of using law enforcement as a substitute for effective social services which builds relationships with those resistant to shelters.

Instead of working to renege on this landmark court settlement, the City should work to assure that no one feels the need to sleep on the streets of Miami. Until the City does not turn one individual away who requests shelter in Miami, it is too early to turn away from the Pottinger settlement. The number of homeless youth, families, personal bankruptcies, and those facing food insecurity are all reported higher in South Florida, which does not seem to be the best time to cancel an agreement with homeless people.

Going back to a failed public policy of arresting homeless people will only jeopardize any progress the City has made in serving those who have been homeless for a long period of time. This policy of arresting and jailing homeless people is expensive and will in the end lengthen the time people spend without housing. The City will eventually pay the additional cost of housing, feeding, providing health care, and behavioral health for these individuals they arrest for purely innocent life sustaining behavior.

We urge the City to commit to social workers, housing and supportive services instead of law enforcement, incarceration and turning on their own citizens.

Sincerely, Michael Stoops Director of Community Organizing National Coalition for the Homeless\Washington, DC

What is The Homeless Voice, and What do they Do?

Staff Writer

The Homeless Voice houses, feeds, and finds jobs for anyone who is homeless. We serve 500 homeless daily and serve over 45,000 meals each month.

The Homeless Voice distributes a street newspaper in South Florida on street corners of Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach Counties. The Homeless Voice Newspaper has three functions.

1-Educate the public on homelessness and poverty issues 2-Provide temporary employment to those without a job 3-Raise additional funds for the Hollywood, Florida based homeless shelter We have grown into a multifaceted agency that feeds, shelters, and arranges for each homeless person to receive the necessary access to social and noncompulsory religious services to enable a return to a self-reliant lifestyle.

For the small percentage of people incapable of

living independent lives, we provide a caring and supportive environment for their long-term residency.

The COSAC Foundation was originally established in May 1997 to partner with other social service agencies, in the area, that provided help to the homeless population. COSAC also independently feeds the homeless or anyone in need of food.

The COSAC Foundation opened its first homeless shelter in 1999 and named it COSAC Quarters (the shelter money was raised by spare change).

Our mission is to provide the homeless population access to shelter, food, employment opportunities or referrals, as well as access to social services all toward the aim of enabling their return, if possible, to self-reliance.

To accomplish this, COSAC is the hub organization. We developed the Homeless Voice Newspaper, a COSAC funding tool, which has been responsible for employing homeless people and therefore giving them income to survive on the streets. Also, the “The Homeless Voice” is the means by which we advocate on behalf of the homeless population and to educate the public as to the true

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nature of homelessness and ways we can all work to eliminate the bias against this sector of our population and to help empower those affected by homelessness to regain or maintain their self-esteem and sense of self-worth during their transition through difficult times. The Homeless Voice became the official name of our homeless division, which operates four facilities in Broward County. We created the COSAC Quarters Hotel for the poor, a hotel with 21 rooms that serve the indigent or people with limited income. The clients receive three meals a day at Arnolds Café, named after the great homeless advocate Arnold Abbott. Another agency is the Day Labor Company, employees of which match an outside company labor request with a suitable shelter resident. Lastly, COSAC Foundation decided to become the South Florida County Food pantry.

This service helps us provide food for those “nearly homeless” families.

Our Vision is to end discrimination against the homeless population and to develop such an effective network of services that we greatly reduce the time a person or family emerges out of homelessness back into self-reliance.

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As circular and obvious as that sounds, most runners neglect a necessary component in any training program: speed work.

It doesn’t matter if you’re training for a 5K or an ultra-marathon, or if you’re goal is to simply cross the finish line, or to set a new personal record. Whatever gets you to the starting line, you’re chances of success increase greatly by being a well-rounded runner. So, if all you do is the same thirty to forty minute run a few days a week, you’re selling yourself short. Those “junk mile” days of the usual steady-pace efforts have their place, but they shouldn’t make up 100% of your weekly mileage. Instead, do at least one day of “speed work.”

There are many different ways to do speed work. In fact, that’s one of the most exciting aspects of the speed day: variety.

Not only do you have several tried and true workouts to choose from- mile repeats, Yasso 800′s, quarter mile repeats, ladders, fartlek, in-and-out miles, tempo runs, the list goes on- but you can tailor the workout to meet your specific needs in a myriad of ways. The basic premise is to run one unit of either distance or time at a fast pace, then run a smaller unit of distance or time at a significantly slower pace. Repeat as necessary.

Take for example the always dreaded, “mile repeats.” Warm-up at an easy pace for a mile, ten minutes, five minutes, whatever suits you best; just make sure you’re good and warm before starting the first fast interval. Then, run 1 mile at a challenging pace, somewhere around 85% of your “max effort” or “perceived exertion.” Follow that with a very easy jog (walk if you must, but keep moving!) for around half of the amount of time it took you to run 1 mile. So, if it was an 8-minute mile, recover for about 4 minutes. Repeat 1 to 2 times, working up to 3 mile-repeats (not counting warm-up and cool-down), or more as you progress. After your last repeat, cool down the same way you warmed-up.

People often ask at what pace they should run the fast interval. If you don’t already have a gauge to determine your pace, like a recent race you’ve run, then “max effort” or “perceived exertion” can help you determine the optimal pace. While running the fast interval, ask yourself honestly if you can sustain whatever pace you’re at for the requisite distance or time. If the answer is a solid “no,” scale it back a little bit. Just be sure to push yourself, because although you want to be able to complete the interval, you also want it to be challenging.

For more tips, or if you have questions, visit my website ilikerun.com.

“The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start” -John Bingham

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‘Mother,’ the Other Word for ‘Love’ ing her father Ibraim, a shoe polisher and disabled war veteran.

“There is nothing more wonderful in the world He was once in a hurry to get to his workplace in the town than when someone calls you ‘mummy’”, says Esma center whilst walking on crutches. A lady, seeing this touching Redzepova-Teodosievski, the queen of Romani muscene, took some money from her wallet with the intention to sic, the UNHCR ambassador, two times a nominee for give it to Esma’s father. He refused the money saying he would the Nobel peace prize, a woman who, perhaps, was feel a lot better if she brought all the shoes in her house to be not lucky enough to give birth biologically; but was polished, and pay him then. Little Esma started crying with lucky enough to bring up and educate 47 boys and happiness and pride and when her father asked her why she one girl. was crying, she said that she was touched by his refusal of the Eleonora Mustafovska is now grown up and is atmoney. Although she maybe did not really know the meaning tending both a college and a Music academy. She is of the word ‘touched’, she was already mature enough to recalso the long-awaited heiress of the music diva and ognize goodness and kindness. is now learning Esma’s singing techniques. She is the Somewhere around this time she also understood that she was last one in the group of gifted and talented children ‘different’ from other children, when a classmate did not want who still talk to their benefactor every day, during to shake her hand and sit next to her because she was a ‘gypsy’. breakfast, lunch and dinner; and for good morning or Luckily, Esma’s aunt explained to her that she should not listen good night. And although Esma is modest, it is difto comments like that. Since she was a naturally cheerful child, ficult not to feel exhausted and overwhelmed thinking she didn’t find it difficult to follow that advice. And there was about the scale of the mission that the famous singer always singing, which to her was a consolation, a vent, a way took on with her late husband Stevo. of expressing her emotions.

The sons are not any worse off than Eleonora. They “My father loved music and he could play all the percussion instruments, so our house was always full of singing”, Esma can pop in to their family home at any time. And have as many “mummy” phone calls as they want with the remembers. “In the winter evenings, when there was nothing to woman that always encouraged them and believed in do, father would entertain us, he would sing to us but he would their talent. Although the word also encourage us to perform too - either ‘talent’ may not be right in this to sing or to dance.” case, for Esma and Stevo alEsma was always the fifth (next to last) Although she maybe did not ways believed that talent only in a row, and she would always wait makes 30% of success - the really know the meaning of the for her turn impatiently. “I always sang rest is achieved by hard work. word ‘touched’, she was already very seriously, so my brothers and sisThey tried to instill this belief always laughed”, she says. She was mature enough to recognize ters among others - in their numerconvinced even then, despite the teasgoodness and kindness. ous (musical) offspring. ing, that she would one day become a Let’s start from the very bestar. This idea was further encouraged ginning, from the moment by her successes at school assemblies Esma first felt this philanthropic ‘condition’ - when - her teachers’ praises, won her first places at various school she received a hat, socks and gloves from Red Cross competitions, and even the national radio competition “The in her second year of primary school, and decided that microphone is yours”. She hid this cash prize “in her knickshe too - if ever she was able - would help the poor. Or ers”, afraid that she might be scolded for putting singing beperhaps it happened even earlier, when she was helpfore more serious, school-related things. When her mother Dragana Nikoletic

decided she needed to take a bath and started taking her clothes off, the money flew everywhere. “Where did you get all this money from”, her mother shouted.

Esma at first tried to hide it, but then admitted that she earned it “from singing”.

After this triumph on the radio, her career was put in the hands of Stevo Teodosievski, who ‘took’ her from her family to educate her and make her famous. As her mentor and manager, Stevo protected and admired her, and as soon as she turned eighteen, he proposed (Continued on pg 10)

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to her every six months. Eventually Esma said yes ite’ one, always by her side. and, even though she did not love him at first, she was Simeon claims it is because faithful to him to the end of his life. She never fails he is the most handsome, to mention his part in her life successes - their large and she laughs, worried that family, the Humanity Home, and the Music Museum others might hear. They go that they set up together. on their summer holidays toOnly half a year after being ‘taken’, she became gether even now - Esma, and known throughout the whole of Yugoslavia. Under Simeon with his wife, his the name “Teodosievski Orchestra”, they conquered daughter Esma and his son the world. They earned a lot of money, but they didn’t Stevo. want to spend it all on themselves. As they were not When Stevo (senior) was able to have children of their own, an idea was born alive, everyone behaved well, (a better idea than modern TV talent shows), to adopt regarding him as a true head young musicians who did not have enough money for of the family. “He educated education. They adopted orphans, poor children, and them, always strict and fair, children from divorced parents. a real father. He was always The first one was Ibro, and he immediately called very tough, whilst I’d always Esma “mummy”. She stepped back and said “Don’t give in. Actually, I was their call me mum”. The little boy looked sad and asked shoulder to cry on”, Esma who then could he call “mummy”. Esma realized that explains. However, even she all he needed was love, and that ‘mother’ is another would scold them sometimes, name for ‘love’. “when they misbehaved”.

They considered, for a while, to adopt girls as well, Esma and Stevo brought up but they soon realized that it would the children to be a support to each other, be a bit intense to bring them up and an example to people around them. together with the boys under the They taught them that “health is most imsame roof. Therefore they decided They taught them that “health is portant”, for when you are healthy you can to just adopt boys, and they stuck most important”, for when you work and earn money, but also help the to that decision for two decades. are healthy you can work and earn poor. “In my opinion that is the only reciAlthough she always emphasiz- money, but also help the poor. pe for happiness - to share everything you es that she loves all the children have with others”, Esma concludes. equally, one of her sons, Simeon They grew up to be good men and excelAtanasov, always felt somewhat lent musicians, so Esma always takes pleaspecial. He arrived at their home underweight and sure and pride to introduce her sons at the beginning or end of exhausted by illness. She would cry and say that she a concert. She still gives them advice, they still worry for her would kill herself if the boy died, and Stevo would health, and they regularly keep in touch. console her and do anything he could to make evOn her birthday, August 8th, all the children with all their offerything ok. That’s how Simeon became the ‘favorspring gather together. That day is always magical. “I am not

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like a child, looking forward to my birthday, but I just simply cannot wait to see all of them together”, says Esma. They are always busy for New Year’s Eve, all of them having their own performances, because this bank holiday is always the busiest one for musicians.

Even though the Teodosievskis started building the Humanity Home and Music Museum during the days of Yugoslavia, these monumental buildings, memories to Stevo, are still not finished. A lot of money was lost in Yugoslav banks, so Esma has to work tirelessly even now in order to fulfill their mutual dream.

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