ShipMates - below are my comments which I will read at tonights Mayor and Board of Aldermen public hearing. Please do consider writing an email to the Mayor and Board in direct support of the rezoning of the property that will serve as the day shelter for families experiencing homelessness. ---------- Good evening Mayor, Alderwomen and Aldermen. I’m Ed Hinde, a very proud Frederick city resident of now ten years, and co-founder of the Student Homelessness Initiative Partnership of Frederick County, better known as SHIP. We work to provide to the immediate needs of the hundreds of Frederick County school children who are encountering homelessness. With our work with SHIP, we have seen first hand the impact that poverty and homelessness have upon children. We’ve also seen the tremendous support our community receives through the amazing work, commitment and dedication of staff, volunteers, and so many others from organizations like Frederick County Community Action, Advocates for the Homeless, Society of St. Vincent de Paul, and The Religious Coalition For Emergency Human Needs to name just a few. As the Acting Director of SHIP, and because our community so desperately needs a family shelter to protect and care for children and their families in their time of need, the 1,350 local members of SHIP wish you to know that we support the Religious Coalition’s efforts to establish an emergency shelter program for families and urge the Board of Aldermen to support their request for re-zoning of a property that will serve as a day shelter. We are also in support of the Frederick Rescue Mission’s desire to rezone the property on North Market Street that is intended to serve as a family shelter in the future. In my introduction, I mentioned that I was a very proud Frederick city resident. Now let me tell you why. Our city, our county has a legacy of caring and compassion. I’m told by a few that this heritage is due to Frederick being a hospital town after the Antietam and Gettysburg military campaigns of 1862 and 1863. So, 150 years later, we’re still at it. Like many communities, we stand for something, and in our case, we’re quick to take a step forward, take the initiative and do what is needed, what is required. From the south of town, to the north of town, we do what we do because we care for each other. That’s our legacy. That’s what we do. And that’s why I am so very proud of my Frederick city.
Posted on: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 22:04:13 +0000
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