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| Creator Of Hi I'm Homeless: James Flaherty - Established: 6/14/03 |
| Hi I'm Homeless |
| NEWSPAPER |
| NEWS FLASH: |
| Two Homeless, senior citizens, were attacked and beaten with baseball bats, under the Yosemite blvd. overpass, on the third monday of May, between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. The attackers were described as two white males, ages 20 to 30 yrs. old. Over 6 ft. tall, one with brown hair and the other a skin head. They drove a blue and white, 2 1/2 ton, 1984 ford pickup. They said to the victims, we don't allow youngsters on the street. They threw firecrackers at the victims, and wrapped a blanket around one of the victims head, then tied a rope around his neck, drug him down to the creek and proceeded to hold his head under water untill he started choking. They finally left the victims with broken bones, laserations, and bloody abrasions that required stitches. One victim could barely walk to the park, where he stayed for 2 days, untill he could make it to the emergency room. The police have been notified and are looking for the criminals at large. |
| SHOULD YOU find yourself homeless and forced to sleep outside, please leave you're area clean. BYRON A. OSTROWSKI |
| City Council is open to the general public, every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. They will give you three minutes to say what's on your mind. Their location is 1010 10th st., Modesto, Ca. |
| What was once the new Emergency Shelter in Modesto, is now re-opened as the new daytime drop-in center on 9th and D st. The facility is open from 8:00 a.m. untill 5:00 p.m., monday through friday.. You can wash your clothes, change your sox, watch t.v., and even leave your belongings locked up on the property, untill they close at 5:00 p.m. They have hot coffee and doughnuts too. So come on over and check it out. |
| The Mission In Stocton,, Ca., has 90 lockers offered to the Homeless for personal storage. The cost is $2.00 a wk., or $8.00 a month, with a $6.00 deposit fee. I think Modesto should have lockers for the Homeless too. THE INDIAN |
| In Stanislause County there aren't very many jobs. Where do we go from here? I went to the Brenden Theater to apply for a job. Supposedly they ran out of applications. So I went back numorous times. One time I left a resume but they never called me. There were only hispanic and black people working there. There were no white people working there at all. I've gotten the same results at other places. Such as, Del-Monte Foods in Modesto Ca., last yr., when I applied. They called me three times, but when I called back, they said they made a mistake and got the wrong seniority number. I finally gave up hope for any chance of employment there. Del-Monte also made me step out of line to let Hispanic people go before me. The man that told me to step out of line was the man doing the interviewing at the Employment Office. He worked at the Employment Office. He was Hispanic also. Several yrs. ago, at the Employment Office in Modesto, I signed up for a work program that was supposed to help me get new training and a new career. I was excited about this and was doing fine untill a certain Hispanic lady at the Employment Office met me for a final interview, qualifying me for the program. She told me that I was disqualified because of several different reasons. I left discouraged. When I came back to the Employment office two wks. later, another worker told me that I wasn't disqualified and he didn't know why the other worker told me different. |
| Now I've got something to tell you. My name is James Flaherty. I am German and Irish, and I am proud of it. I am not prejudice and I am a Christian. This Country was never the Mexican peoples, or the Indian peoples, or the White peoples. This Country was founded on God and it was created by God. God owns everything. I am not afraid of any race, creed, or color. Including colors people wear. Your Gangs don't frighten me and I've got close friends that are Mexican. Big deal. They are people too. Don't you realize that if you want to succeed, you have to forgive the ones that mistreated you, and treat them better. This is your golden opportunity to set an example and to make a statement of integrity. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. The Bible says, if you have the power in your hands to do good and you don't , it is considered sin. |
| WORDS on a page are all you need to get your point across. The pen is mightier than the sword. Aaron Alford |