| Home Adelaide Homeless Gossip is archived by the National Library of Australia Calder Calls the Police Homeless Hot Gossip 3 Latest 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Oldest (from 16 February 2007 to 14 June 2007) Send your latest insights to [email protected] The most recent message appears at the top. Updated 14 June 2007 Royalties for Media Stars I wonder if the two men whose images appear on the wall of the HousingSA office in Flinders' Street get royalties. 14 June 2007 Thanks to everyone who provides these updates. I�m stuck in a small room and don�t get out much these days. 13 June 2007 Iron Fence for Hutt Street Centre Rumour has it that Hutt Street Centre is putting up a high iron fence to stop patrons from sitting on the verandah because richer people walking by are offended by their presence. There isn�t any word if those expensive cafes in Hutt Street will be asked to push their fat clients back inside the cafe buildings in case hungry homeless people might be offended by the luxury experienced by the caf� customers compared to their own material existence. 13 June 2007 Social Inclusion and Kidney Stones The man at Westcare was complaining; he's got kidney stones and matter-of-factly said he woke up last night at midnight vomiting and couldn�t sleep until 5am from pain. He�s on the RAH waiting list for treatment but hasn�t a clue when he�ll be �called up�. Two years ago he developed the problem but was misdiagnosed with nerves and then muscle pain and finally kidney stones. �If I had $10,000 I�d get treatment right away,� he said without a hint of cynicism. A church worker at WestCare said he didn't know the man very well but he'd been paying for lunch for six years and was always polite and doesn't use drugs. 12 June 2007 Organ Donation Another man at WestCare said that the Royal Adelaide Hospital gives him the creeps because it�s, �organ donation, organ donation, organ donation propaganda�. 12 June 2007 Dirty Jokes Dominick and Jill were at the free comedy performance at the Casino last night. Dominick complained to the Action Desk that there were too many dirty jokes being told. The Action Desk woman said people liked dirty jokes and that they were going to make them even dirtier. 12 June 2007 Someone Shot Through A heap of old clothes arrived at WestCare for their free clothing room. Some good stuff. So much they had to put some boxes out in the main hall. I got a good summer hat. The old guy from Bohemia got a good winter jacket. The guy with kidney stones was in too much pain to be interested. He even gave away his bread for the pigeons because he was too sick. He gave it to the guy who just took a doctor�s pill and his stomach was burning and he had to eat some bread right away to kill the pain. 12 June 2007 Down the Drain with John Green Barmera fraudster, John Green, was seen at the Metropolitan Hotel near the Central Markets on Tuesday, 5 June. He was playing the Geisha pokies machine. He was losing, of course, as always though it isn't known whose money he was losing. 12 June 2007 Gambling Addict Spotted at Fred's Van John Green was seen at Fred�s Van in Gawler Place on Sunday evening, 3 June 2007. Those living outside are wise to his scam tricks to obtain their welfare money. Of some concern are the Fred�s Van volunteers who are often elderly, with some assets and with a sentiment of wanting to help other people. They may be vulnerable to Green�s scam talk of wanting money to visit a �family re-union� or �to bring my kids down from Darwin� (when they already live in Adelaide), or to buy a car for an estranged �son�. Green is from a Catholic family in Barmera and knows what �buttons� to push with elderly Catholic volunteers at Fred�s Van though he isn�t fussy � anyone with money is okay. 7 June 2007 Sandra Kanck speaks in Parliament "... I have had drawn to my attention a number of recent examples, but one in particular is of a grandmother who was caring for her three grandchildren in the Housing SA home of her daughter and partner. The daughter and partner both had drug depend�ence. The daughter's partner, who was the leaseholder, was in prison, came out, took drugs and died apparently of an overdose. As a result, the grandmother was removed from the house by six police officers and thrown on to the street. She had kept up all the rent payments during the time the leaseholder was imprisoned. So, a family dealing with the issues of drug abuse and death are now also dealing with issues of homelessness. Unfortunately, this case is far from unusual..." Is this "social inclusion?" posted 7 June 2007 �Never got a reply,� Sandra Kanck, Upper House Democrat MP responding to my question whether the government answered her questions asked in parliament one year ago about the expenses of the Social Inclusion Commission. The former Editor of this column wanted to know how much of the $4million annual budget of the homeless section of the Social Inclusion Commission went to salaries, air travel, hotels, hosting experts here, office expenses, etc. For example, how much was spent for the various homeless and social inclusion experts to visit Australia and what was the practical result for those living outside in the Adelaide CBD; how much was spent on "the next Pope's" trips abroad; who pays for David Waterford's Listerine; how much was spent on regional members of the board of the Social Inclusion Commission to visit Adelaide for meetings (what hotels were used and how much was their food and entertainment expenses); how much are Board Member's paid; how many employment positions are dedicated to the "homeless component" of the Social Inclusion Board and how much do they cost; how much for operating the office; how much was spent on photographers to capture shots of "the next Pope" for promotional material, how much was spent on printing; how much on car expenses; were any bodyguards hired when "the next Pope" did his Christmas routine at homeless centres (and if bodyguards were present then who paid for them); how much was spent on the Social Inclusion website; what other expenses were there? Of all the above expenses precisely what precise benefit did those living outside in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands receive. And has "homelessness" in the Adelaide city area gone down since this money was spent? 7 June 2007 Jill and Dominick strike again Jill and Dominick from Fred's Van were pleased with themselves on Friday after spending five hours eating at the Pullman smorgasbord in the Adelaide Casino. "I eat very slowly," a smiling Dominick tells me somewhat unconvincingly as he heads to the bar for the one-dollar beer. Later they sit together on those new leather chairs watching Friday night football and wait for the free pies at half-time. On a sadder note, Barmera's Biggest Loser, John Green was seen at the Roulette-on-computer table at the Casino last Wednesday, 30 May from 8-11pm. He was, as usual, pouring his fortnight's Centrelink money down the drain before retreating to his outdoor squat. He'll spend the rest of the fortnight crying poverty and trying to obtain large amounts of cash from people saying it is to support his "sons". Maybe a true story, if he has "sons" and they're named roulette, pokie and baccarat. 5 June 2007 A acute shamanist observer of the weather stopped me on North Terrace and said that the drought had been caused by the Minister for Destroying the Housing Trust, Jay Weather-ill. 5 June 2007 Has he got a deal for you An elderly gentleman told us at the Hare Krishna meal in Hurtle Square that someone was using his name to register cars and he wanted me to grab one of the cars, worth about $20k. Then he would sell it for parts and share the profit with me. 5 June 2007 Kidney Stones The man with kidney stones was feeding the pigeons with old bread in Victoria Square this morning. He got rained on and vomited his pain medication. By the time he got to WestCare he was in too much pain to stay for the meal. We suggested he catch an ambulance to the hospital but he said they just told him to leave. He�s on a waiting list for treatment but there is no estimation of the time he�ll have to wait. �If you have money you go to a private hospital and they operate right away,� he told us. Is this social inclusion or is it �Social Inclusion�? 1 June 2007 Homeless Politics A thirty-two-year-old-man got two used quilts from Fred�s Van last night. He didn�t know where he was going to sleep but was amazed that so many diners weren�t homeless. I told him that services for the homeless generally go to people who aren�t homeless rather than those who are. An example is MACHA�s East Park Lodge being kept nearly empty for a year while many lived outside. Then when the Afton House people were told to leave they moved to East Park. The primary homeless living under the stars (and clouds) were sleeping on the ground then and are still doing so. 1 June 2007 The curry with rice wasn�t heated up enough at Fred�s Van last night. �Steve�, the guy who wears shorts in winter was the first to observe this though he said the sweet flavour was interesting. 1 June 2007 A Prancin and a Dancin I wonder if "the next Pope", David Cappo, ever wonders if he's simply being used by Media Mike Rann, for political and publicity reasons, to cover up the fact that the government is continually reducing cheap public housing for those at risk of "homelessness". The Minister for Destroying the Housing Trust, Jay Weatherill, looks sicker every day, maybe from having to maintain the big lie. Everything good in him must be screaming out that this deceit must stop. 1 June 2007 Incident at Chat�n�Chew A twelve-year-old boy arrived with a male neighbour at the UnitingCare Wesley Port Adelaide free meal back of the Family Centre situated on Dale Street, Port Adelaide. It was 5pm on Wednesday, 16 May 2007 and the food was being served. The customers were mostly those suffering �mental illness� and/or epilepsy, and some diners were carers and friends of the above. The female social workers became very worried and demanded the boy go home with them because he might be in a dangerous environment. They called the police and, after a few threats, the boy went home with the police who dropped him off at his front door and said he could do whatever he wanted. The social workers took the names of some people sitting at the same table as the boy and put them in their child molester files and might even have given them to the police. At the next Chat�n�Chew meal two weeks later the boss social worker, in charge at the previous meal, was absent. There had been some argument with management about the behaviour of the female social workers because the clients, mostly psychiatric patients, had been treated as a threat to a twelve-year-old boy, especially the neighbour who said the boy had followed him there. One social worker implied the neighbour was guilty because she smelled alcohol on his breath. Thus the clients had all been stigmatised as being unfit to be around a twelve-year-old boy because of their psychiatric condition or, because they were friends of people suffering mental illness. This contradicts UnitingCare Wesley Port Adelaide policy that says psychiatric patients aren�t dangerous people and should be treated with respect. No formal or informal apology has been offered to the diners at the meal and probably won�t be. 31 May 2007 Psychological Damage One might consider whether those social workers/housing advocates suffer inner damage by spending their days trying to establish rapport with the clients then when the client discloses sensitive history the social worker gets him or her to sign a privacy release form and spreads these personal details to other agencies, other strangers. There must be some inner guilt built up by this behaviour that resembles betrayal. 30 May 2007 Casey at the Bat? Dot Casey of HousingSA in Flinders Street is off on extended sick leave until 14 June. One staff member says she takes on too big a work load. Dot specialises in finding housing for people living outside. Let�s hope she recovers quickly or takes on a lighter work load. Some of those sods in the Port Adelaide HousingSA office are just the opposite of Dot Casey. Juanita at Flinder's Street is taking Dot�s case load, well, trying to, anyway. 29 May 2007 Diabetes is a killer, Warren. Start eating better food, drink more water, and exercise Warren, who used to do the Teen Challenge meal at Hindmarsh Square, is down with diabetes and rumour has it that he is not treating it as seriously as he should. He doesn�t realise it is deadly. 29 May 2007 Anatomy of a Scam Attack Here is a link to John Green�s emails as he tries to get more money from someone who lent him $1400. Other emails show how he avoided repaying the �one-week loan�. 29 May 2007 Mechanics Beware Rangi, of Teen Challenge, is working at St Lukes in Whitmore Square. Be careful you don�t tell him if you�re a mechanic: He�ll want you to fix his car. Pretend to be toally incompetent. 29 May 2007 Cheap Razors �Hey, Buddy, want to buy some razors?� said that blue-eyed, fat man who chain smokes and begs money outside the Central Markets. 29 May 2007 Executive Material Gary Wilson, of ShelterSA, has had a haircut and beard trim. He looks like a real executive, now. 29 May 2007 Some guy tried to steal another man�s backpack at Fred�s Van last night. He was confronted but claimed it was his then backed down and handed it back. One must never forget that Gawler Court is full of desperadoes. 29 May 2007 Centrelink Darren Matson of Centrelink in Currie Street, Adelaide needs to do a refresher course in income declaration and deeming. He got it all wrong with me. What a stuff-up. 29 May 2007 Two sources report John Green back at Byron Place Community Centre, Byron Place, Adelaide.. This is surprising considering that one of his creditors, Ian, is a long-term volunteer there on Friday mornings. Ian delivers the top quality day-old bread and buns, and toasts and butters them. Maybe John will make his visits Mondays to Thursdays to avoid Ian. One source says John has borrowed money there from another person named Matt. 28 May 2007 Rumour has it that some in the homeless industry are unhappy that Jo Wickes is getting all the publicity in the City Messenger, especially Jo's flattering head-only photos. 28 May 2007 Fast Finish The clients disappeared from Fed's Van before the volunteers packed up. The reason was that Clem was in town and in an exictable mood and calling other men, "Prissy". Even Gary shot through early. 28 May 2007 "Cock," Gary, to a well-wisher at Fred's Van. 28 May 2007 Downer's Clone? Andrew Grant of Street-to-home was seen on the corner of Bentham and Pirie Streets waving his ID badge. The only words that formed in my mind upon seeing him were, �Alexander Downer� and �cosmetic surgery gone wrong�. 24 May 2007 "Domestic" on flight Remember the homeless woman, Donna, who was having a terrible time living outside. She recently went to Sydney with her �boyfriend� but they had a ferocious �domestic� on the plane and he was arrested. She has stopped drinking and her weight is down to 48kg because she got much of her kilojoule intake from alcohol. I hope she emerges alive. 24 May 2007 Bureau of Statistics The Australian Bureau of Statistics still won�t explain how they compiled the Adelaide CBD primary homeless statistics for Census 2006. One source suggests Street-to-home played a part, which might compromise the data because they�re a psychiatric agency that needs to show that homelessness is decreasing due to their efforts. Also, people living outside are wary of an agency that often sends them to psychiatric hospitals and might have avoided the census because of that. One veteran in the homeless scene said the stats for Census2006 were collected differently from Census2001 so the results can't be compared. He said it will take the Census2011 stats compared to the Census 2006 stats to show whether the number living outside has decreased or not. Won't "the next Pope" and the "short fuse" just love this. They won't be accountable until 2012 when the results of Census2011 are collated and published. 24 May 2007 Dot Casey Dot Casey of HousingSA is said to be on sick leave. She is valued by those living outside. 24 May 2007 Dominick gets a nasty letter Dominick, who used to be the man in the little office in the now demolished toilet block in Hindmarsh Square, showed me a letter HousingSA sent him saying they�d kick him out if he didn�t stop shouting at a �female visitor�. The visitor is a long-time friend suffering from depression. The interesting part of the letter is the term, �female visitor�. It reminds one of �gents only� rooming houses where you could get kicked out for having a �female visitor�. Is HousingSA going back to the �good old days�. It should be noted that 90% of public housing tenants are �single�. 22 May 2007 *********************************************************** Social Inclusion? One of those fantastic self-cleaning toilets in Victoria Square has had water in it for weeks, according to a city resident. Humiliating, dirty toilets are part of government plans to exclude people from parks. Not exactly social inclusion, rather more like �Social Inclusion�. 22 May 2007 Afton House Workers were dragging stained mattresses and filthy furniture from Afton House this afternoon in the rain. Perhaps they should continue their work at Hutt Street Centre and drag out some of their old furniture. You need to wash your clothing just after sitting on some of it. Rumour has it that most of those who have recently been evicted from Afton House, due to the renovations, won�t be allowed back in when the improvements are finished. One reason put forward is that many won�t submit to new �control orders�, aka �rehabilitation�. Another is that the lengthy renovation will be used as a trick to force ex-residents into outer suburbia. They haven't been told, of course. 22 May 2007 ************************************** Fred's Van is held outside because then they aren't liable for injuries if someone gets beaten up. If held in a building then an innocent client beaten up could claim damages on public liability insurance. 21 May 2007 ******************************** "Like he's on medication." A description of the "short fuse", Greg Calder, in the presence of his little boss, John Forward. 21 May 2007 *********************************************** �Alienation at its most essential level is not poverty or unemployment. It is the inability to imagine your society and therefore to imagine yourself in it.� John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium ********************************* �Corporate communists; creatures of monopoly; filthy, filthy animals.� Man at Westcare�s $2 lunch talking about corporate managers. 16 May 2007 ***************************** Is MACHA�s category 2 waiting list dead; is it merely a decoration using human mannequins? 16 May 2007 The former Editor of this column reports: Saw John Green on Friday in the Grote Street Library. He seemed disinclined to bring up the subject of that one-week loan he made from me last October, 2006 for $1400. He claimed at the time he was buying a car for his "boy" and couldn�t access his term account in time. It turned out the term account and the car never existed. There is also some doubt about �his boy�. It is in the public record that John Andrew Green has been convicted in Australian courts 26 times for fraud and forgery. Green's targets anyone but has recently obtained never-to-be-repaid-loans from people working in Adelaide's homeless scene. He uses library computers to contact people in homeless forums then meets them in person. Kevin Norton, a journalist and Chief of Staff of Adelaide's Sunday Mail newspaper, (circulation about 250,000) can confirm Green's fraud convictions. 14 May 2007 Something fishy about MACHA closing its books. MACHA (Multi-Agency Community Housing Association) recently closed its waiting list because, so they claim, over one-hundred people are on this list. They say it has become too big. Yet when I signed up with MACHA four years ago it had 79 on its list. So one-hundred isn't much more especially when one considers that many are evictees from Afton house, currently undergoing renovation. MACHA's other rooming housing, East Park Lodge, should have absorbed a number of the Afton evictees, having laid mostly empty for over a year. But MACHA closing their books seems a little like a political action. MACHA, formed by various church based homeless agencies, is at war with the Social Inclusion Commission and Street-to-home. These latter groups want to exert more control over formerly homeless tenants and force them into "treatment" and send them to outer suburbia. The real problem is that MACHA has just two-hundred properties. They are the rubbish properties dumped by HousingSA, according to one church person. And they can't get any more because the Minister for Destroying the Housing Trust, Jay Weatherill, is selling 16 HousingSA properties a week. Is this Social Inclusion? 14 may 2007 ***************************************************************** Angry Red-haired police officer A red-haired police officer forced a formerly homeless man into his car and drove him home. Why? The man was sitting under a tree in the parklands and the officer claimed he might be "looking at children". The man said he wasn't, doesn't have any criminal record and says that some police officers are "bad". The man is a Disability Support Pensioner. Police would never dare do this with anyone with social standing. Is this "Social Inclusion"? 14 May 2007 Delayed medical treatment A 47 year old man had to rest on the way to the Friday lunch at WestCare, (fish and chips, $2), because of stones in his left kidney. He's had them for two and a half years and they are causing damage to his kidney. He's on the Royal Adelaide Hospital waiting list for ultrasound treatment then, if necessary, surgery. He says the stones are causing damage to his kidney according to doctors. RAH won�t say when he might expect treatment. Is this social inclusion? 14 May 2007 Eight-dollar haircuts The hairdresser at the Greek club next to the Stag Hotel on the corner of Whitmore Square and Morphett Street charges $8 for pensioners. 14 May 2007 The Naked Chef "Jamie Oliver owes me sixty-dollars," said a man at the Otherway Centre. He was referring to the celebrity Chef and Author. 14 May 2007 Fantasy and Depression as Protection "I lived in the same house with Fleetwood Mac in the seventies on the Gold Coast," said a formerly homeless man at the Senior's Information Service. "I emailed Stevie Nicks when she visited Melbourne and asked why she didn't send me some money for clothes and air tickets so we could meet?" Living on the streets can destroy a person's sanity so many resort to fantasy for protection. It works. It saves their sanity, but not everyone in the homeless industry appreciates this self-protective technique. Those idiot bureaucrats want to break down protective fantasies and leave the homeless person vulnerable to injury. 14 May 2007 "I don't like Rice Religion," said a man at Fred's Van last Thursday. He was commenting about the religious talk at the Teen Challenge meal on Thursdays in Hindmarsh Square. 14 May 2007 The Most Dangerous Part of Adelaide A woman threw a cup of coffee into the face of an older man at Fred�s Van. The older man was telling someone else that the fruit was being distributed and she thought she was insulting her when he held up a banana. Her �husband� got involved but after a shouting match everything settled down. A ploy of thugs at Fred�s Van is to threaten someone till they leave then follow that person until there aren�t many witnesses and then attack and rob the person. The police are totally useless and deliberately avoid protecting people in the homeless scene; they consider that being around a place like Fred�s Van is the same as �asking for it�. Many people avoid Fred�s Van from fear of violence. Just like the man being �stomped on� outside the Wakefield Street Police Station yesterday while police inside wouldn�t come outside to that man�s rescue. Police Commissioner, Malcolm Hyde muttered something about the police being willing to rescue the man being stomped on but thought the patrol could do better. A lot can happen in that few seconds when you�re being beaten up and even a one-minute delay can result in extra injuries that may take months, evenyears to heal. What is that dope Hyde on? He�s better suited to working for an advertising agency than as a police commissioner. Gawler Courtyard, where Fred�s Van operates, is the most dangerous single spot in Adelaide yet is just 85 paces from the front of the Wakefield Street Police Station. It could just as well me on the moon. And what is that moron, Cappo, �the next Pope� doing about it? He�s grabbed all that power and money yet apart from grandstanding in the media does nothing about getting the police to actually protect people from violence at Fred�s Van and in the parks generally. 10 May 2007 Social Inclusion Commission Wasting More Resources? Have you ever come across writers who spend decades researching their subject in an attempt to avoid beginning �their book�. They prefer research to actual writing. �The next Pope� displays similar prevarication. He and the Social Inclusion Commission are forever starting new studies on poverty, like that announced yesterday for The Parks area. It is a study about poverty, housing, crime, etc. More money wasted on another study instead of using it to improve the lives of the poorest people. It�s bureaucrats wasting resources doing more studies; recommending more changes that don�t happen. What is the point of beginning new studies when the old studies haven�t been acted on. Nothing has improved for those living outside in the Adelaide CBD? 8 May 2007 MACHA closes its Waiting List The Multi-Agency Community Housing Association that specializes in renting units, flats and houses to homeless people is no longer accepting new people on its waiting list. This might be joyful news to �the next Pope�, David Cappo, who has been trying for years to �starve� the homeless out of Adelaide. But it does look a little strange when so many millions are being spent by the Social Inclusion Commission, �helping the Adelaide CBD homeless�, and the primary homeless housing group closes its waiting list because it has grown too big. Gregory Calder, the �short fuse� at the psychiatric agency, Street-to-home, won�t be too unhappy with this news because Street-to-home has been trying to set up its own section within HousingSA � a sort of psychiatric section where all homeless people will be treated similarly to psychiatric patients. Any problems with MACHA can only help Street-to-home. The negative side of all this is that these fighting bureaucrats will scoop off most of the money for their salaries and perks leaving little to those living outside. 7 May 2007 Sugar Thief John Green from Barmera was caught stealing sugar from the London Tavern in the Myer Centre. He is worried about germs from other people at the Hutt Street HomelessCentre and was stuffing into his pocket the little sachets from the London Tavern. Staff at the Tavern haven�t bothered saying anything to him but they�re on guard if he ever returns there again. 7 May 2007 Doctors not allowed to treat homeless at WestCare A few days previously the Minister for Destroying the Housing Trust, Jay Weatherill, announced that Westcare was getting a large part of $2 million to build administrative and counselling offices for homeless people in their welfare complex at Millar�s Court, near Whitmore Square. Westcare wants to run a medical service there and has doctors available who will work for nothing. The Adelaide City Council refuses zoning permission for this type of activity so WestCare can�t provide this service. The reason for the Council decision is that medical services might help and encourage people who are living outside in the City while counselling is designed to ship them out to suburbia. WestCare could ask for support from the Social Inclusion Commission but �the next Pope� also wants to ship the homeless out to suburbia. But �the next Pope� has failed to understand that the �homeless� scene is a cultural entity and dispersing people into outer suburbia often hurts them. 4 May 2007 �A worm.� Someone describing Scam Artist John Green�s method of insinuating himself into someone�s life before obtaining a �loan�. 4 May 2007 That Strange Category 1 Category 1 with MACHA has extended beyond two years while a Case Manager says that one of his clients has been on Category 1 with HousingSA for seven years. Another person says she was told there is a section in the HousingSA Category 1 where you never get a place to live: a special dead-end section of Category 1. MACHA�s has one man waiting for four years though this may be an exception because housing may be delayed for this particular man for organisational political reasons. Street-to-home even has a waiting list except for Glenside Psychiatric Hospital were it�s immediate housing in the forced treatment lock-up ward. One youth worker told me that getting welfare housing depends on who you know in HousingSA and the agencies; not whether you qualify or how long you�ve been waiting. 4 May 2007 We want acid WestCare should put bottles of vinegar on the tables for their Friday Fish and Chips lunch. 4 May 2007 Waiting for bread �Corporate communists, creatures of monopoly�filthy, filthy animals.� A client at WestCare, waiting for the free bread, talking about big corporations. 4 May 2007 Beggars can be Choosers "Could I interest you in a Hi-top?" a charity worker at Fred's Van asked another in mockery of a homeless woman feeling the thawed, formerly frozen bread on offer. Do they think we're deaf? 3 May 2007 Arrested Sexual Development Social workers and Street-to-home types ask personal questions of homeless people applying for housing, seeking recollections of humiliating and compromising situations. The answers are shortened to insulting one-liner clich�s to describe clients. These clich�s are then used like an insulting shorthand to describe the clients For example, if Monsignor Vicar General "next Pope" David Cappo was homeless they would ask him if he'd ever been married, lived de-facto, always been single. They would describe him thereafter, based on his answers, as having "arrested sexual development". They might even call him "the lustful vicar" and have a good laugh whenever his case was mentioned. His personal details would be shared with many other agencies as part of the MARF procedure. It would be a cruel treatment for a man who chose celibacy and the Catholic faith as an occupation and spiritual journey. Yet when "the next Pope" urges reduced privacy firewalls for homeless people; more intense questioning of them to qualify for housing, well, this is what he is doing to them. He probably believes he is helping them but they'll simply be treated thereafter as a set of humiliating faults and described as if they're not real people. 3 May 2007 John Green Update John Green is lurking about at Hutt Street Centre, 258 Hutt Street, Adelaide. He positions himself on a bench just to the left of the main entrance for clients. This gives him three escape doors in case Creditors arrive. His days are lived planning movement around the City that avoid places where his creditors may be at that time; and telling people his sad story in preparation of asking them for a big "loan". 3 May 2007 The Affordable Housing Trust Whatever happened to the Affordable Housing Trust? Jay Weatherill of Alberton, the Minister for Destroying the Housing Trust, doesn't even know how many directors it has; he thinks about eight, but isn't sure. On paper the Affordable Housing Trust exists but appears to be that section of the old Housing Trust that sold properties to tenants. It is little more than an accountant's sleight of hand. The spin doctors encourage him to publish grandiose media releases that Weatherill can't dream up keeping up with. 3 May 2007 Housing Trust 2945 new tenancies were allocated in the last financial year (2005-06). This was down from 3215 from the year before and from 6371 in the 1996-97 financial year. New tenancies in 2005-2006 46.1% were from category 1 23.4% from category 2 30.4% from category 3 The waiting list has dropped from 32,177 in 1997 to 24,016 in 2006 reflecting the futility of applying for housing unless you're Category 1. Waiting List Categories 5.4% on category 1 23.7% on category 2 69.9% are waiting on category 3 The Housing Trust (now Housing SA) owns 45,455 dwellings down from a peak of 63,022 in 1992 the year after the State Bank collapse. 3 May 2007 Feel Me "Feel me," a woman offered at Fred's Van on a rainy night last week. "I'm wet through." It was an unhappy meal under the awning of the corner building though someone said the vegetarian stew was good. All the yoghourt wasn't distributed and a young woman took it back to the van saying they'd save it for a rainy day. One man told her it would go off before they next returned the following Tuesday. He also told her it was raining already. She returned with two slabs which he shared with his close friends. Teen Challenge was really crappy last Thursday: everyone got soaked standing under the wet tree. Teen Challenge hopes to serve the food near the Health Department building next week. A new guy, Derek, was there who serves food in Salisbury. He says clients standing in the queue sometimes fall down when they're hit from behind. The Moore Street Day Centre has resumed its soup van service. 3 May 2007 St John's Youth Service Well, the deal sort of went like this: St John�s Youth Service was going to let a woman with four kids currently living in her car move in Chisholm House if she sort of broke up the family temporarily. The two kids, babies, actually, under one-year-old could move in but the other two children had to live with their grandmother, an alcoholic living �knee-deep� in rubbish and recently �fallen off the wagon�. And it couldn�t be right away; it could be maybe in one week. How is that for �social inclusion�? 2 May 2007 Police Clearances �The next Pope� is real keen on all volunteers in the Catholic Church having Police Clearances. So will the volunteers, including seventeen-year-old girls, at Fred�s Van require Police Clearances and training in mandatory reporting? Certainly, the �short fuse� at Street-to-home should have a Police Clearance. He�s a bit of a risk with that temper. 2 May 2007 At a homeless meal "...one lady I often see there was seeing a man stalking her, and kept on going into the Police Station to ask for help. She kept on pointing him out to me, but there was no one there. Another one (an Aboriginal woman) was seeing some strange demons and screaming to them to go away, not far away. Posted 20 April 2007 ************************************** �I asked him to leave but he continued to take photos.� Greg Calder of Street-to-home in an incident report. Calder was right about the photos but he didn�t ask the man to leave. Rather, he assaulted the man. Calder didn�t identify himself as a government employee, didn�t give his name, didn�t ask the victim to leave. Calder then ran to the Wakefield Street Police Station to lodge a complaint (Report No. 06/C12265) against the man. The police ignored Calder�s complaint not bothering to follow it up. The police recognise the tactic of aggressors running to them claiming they�ve been threatened by the victim. What is bothering Calder? Why is he so paranoid? 20 April 2007 ******************************************* The state government has announced over a million dollars for Adelaide CBD homeless. Guess what they�re spending it on: housing, food services, tarpaulins, etc?? No, administration and counselling offices at Westcare. And what will the trade-off be? Will they have to allow Street-to-home to use their premises like Hutt Street Centre; to dilute the trust the church agencies have gained by a hundred years of serving the homeless; destroying that trust in a few years? 20 April 2007 ******************************************** "The next Pope" crying wolf. �The next Pope� is threatening to resign, again. One day the Premier may accept his resignation, but not before he has wrung out every drop of credibility �the next Pope� can muster. When he�s dry as a rag then Rann will say, �bye-bye next Pope�. 4 April 2007 Big Changes? Last night at an outdoor meal for people living outside I couldn�t help but notice that there seemed little change from two years ago. There were the same grim men and women collecting food and preparing for their night in the open. Some were wearing sleeping bags while eating.It was a sad evening. 4 April 2007 John Green Never Sleeps? The Barmera Scam Artist has chosen a new target: a middle-aged gambling man who owns a house. The homeowner was previously a target of a gambling addict/standover man who took thousands from him. But he still owns his house. Rumour has it the Scam Artist has been trying to make himself useful to the homeowner. Once a debt of gratitude has been incurred he may encourage the homeowner to obtain loans on his house and lend the money to the Scam Artist who, of course, won�t pay it back. This behaviour would fit the John Greens personality type. The homeowner has been warned. Bad luck, John. You'll have to find a new target. 4 April 2007 The next Pope's "friends" �I run out of food sometimes and it hurts inside so I drink four quarts of water, telling myself, �this is food, this is food�. This works sometimes and other times is doesn�t,� said a man in Rundle Mall last week. He is in his late sixties but doesn't get a pension. 4 April 2007 Fred given notice Fred�s Van has been given notice to leave Gawler Courtyard within 12 months. Rumour has it the state government has sold the Education Department building plus Gawler Courtyard and is renting the building back. The courtyard is going to hold a ten-floor hotel according to my source. The Fred�s Van crowd are worried about finding a new location because distributing free food, it seems, requires Council approval. The Adelaide City Council is trying to stop it, of course, or at least relegate it to a remote and dangerous area of the parklands. But those Catholics always have a few tricks up their sleeve. 26 March 2007 ******************************************************** Teen Challenge didn�t turn up at Hindmarsh Square last Thursday so the Jasmin Restaurant crowd had to distribute the chicken burgers. It was a shambles as the queue became a mob. 26 March 2007 ************************************************** John Green from Barmera was seen in the pokies room of the Metropoliian Hotel. Staff are trying to get rid of him. 26 March 2007 ******************************************************** Minister for Destroying the Housing Trust Jay Weatherill is sending letters to people saying their tenancies won�t be affected by the Housing Trust sell-off. The problem is he is also sending them to people still on the waiting list. 22 March 2007 ******************************************* Manipulation Tactic Backfires An apparent trick by John Andrew Green, career criminal and Barmera Scam Artist appears to have backfired. He lent $500 to a fighting-fit man living outside then told him that one of his creditors was falsely claiming that the Scam Artist owed the creditor money. The fighting-fit man in gratitude to the Green took a somewhat angry attitude to the creditor, a client at a disabled centre. But the creditor then showed the man the Green's email trying to obtain a further $1600. He also showed him the receipt the Scam Artist provided for the initial $1400, never paid back. The fighting-fit man then realised Green was getting him to do his dirty work where he could end up injured or in court. He is angry with the Scam Artist who now has another person to be worried about. Green picks his targets deviously well. They�re usually elderly, docile or religious and rarely take legal action against him. Others may be too high profile to get involved with murky legal disputes. But has this Barmera Scam Artist�s bubble burst? 22 March 2007 ***************************************************************** Peter not kicked out of DIRC A customer of Disability Information and Resource Centre emailed me saying that Peter, who had opened up a "War Room" at DIRC to fend off a possible invasion from Indonesea, has not been kicked out. 21 March 2007 ****************************************************** Threat to Fred's Van? Rumour has it that Fred�s Van has been told to find another place to replace Gawler Court because the government wants to build a hotel on the site. �The next Pope� and the Social Inclusion Commission will be happy at this because they appear to want to starve the homeless out of the Adelaide CBD, and force them into outer suburbia. That will make them look good because they can then say they�ve reduced primary homeless in the CBD. Closing down cheap accommodation is another winner for them as this achieves the same purpose with secondary homelessness. The thing in Light Square will be tokenism to disguise what these demons are really up to. 21 March 2007 ******************************************************** Minister for Housing happy with selling off more of the Housing Trust �I think we do pretty well�,� repeated the Minister for Destroying the Housing Trust, Jay Weatherill, on ABC radio 891 on 21 March 2007. He was explaining the selling off of 8000 Trust homes over ten years and responding to questions from listeners including a woman who has been on the waiting list for 25 years. 21 March 2007 *********************************************** John Screen, the predator who preys on people in the homeless scene is laying low more than ever. Perhaps he has heard the rumour that someone is seeking him out to deliver him a Court Summons. Coming soon: the Predator's email where he tries to obtain a further $1600 from a victim after "borrowing" from him over $1000 the previous day. 21 March 2007 ********************************************************* "The next Pope" and his ShowCase Housing Project �The next Pope�, David Cappo, must be feeling ridiculous now the State Government has announced further sell-off of Housing Trust properties. They're selling 16 houses and units per week for the next ten years. This will mean even less housing for people living outside. So what is �the next Pope� going to do? Some say the Social Inclusion Commission has bought a building in Light Square and will spend many millions fixing it up as �ShowCase Housing� for the homeless. The general public will think something productive is happening in homeless housing but in reality it will be an expensive political monument housing a couple of dozen people, and masking the fact that thousands of houses will be sold resulting in even less housing than before for people living outside. How will �the next Pope� incorporate this deception into his conscience? 16 March 2007 **************************************************************** Weatherill's Reward Has Rann anointed Jay Weatherill as his successor? 16 March 2007 ****************************************************** A Triumphant Return The gentleman charged by police with encouraging his dogs to attack another person returned triumphantly to Fred�s Van last night. His two dogs are still impounded and the Council want to kill them, but the gentleman has another Pit Bull Terrier, a puppy that doesn�t like Fred�s Van sausages but will soon grow up to be another adult Pit Bull Terrier. 16 March 2007 **************************************************************************** No Vacancies �They put me in Remand,� said another man at Fred�s Van. �The watch houses and jails are all full.� 16 March 2007 ******************************************************* Coles Voucher Jessica McCormick, ph 8303 3850, is offered a $25 Coles Voucher to gamblers who complete her survey forms. Basically the questions assume people who gamble are victims of violence, sexual abuse and mental illness and she wants to know the gory details. One can imagine the gambling industry eagerly reading her thesis to further snare people with their gambling industry. 16 March 2007 *************************************************************************** �Haven�t you heard of a line you f**cking pigs?� said an unpopular man, pushing his way in and grabbing bananas at Fred�s Van. 16 March 2007 ********************************************************************** �One charity says they don�t know how they�re going to meet demand now that the government is selling Trust housing. There is no faith in Cappo.� A man at the Krishna meal in Hurtle Square 16 March 2007 *************************************************************************** Calder Calls the Police http://www.geocities.com/streettohome/caldercallsthepolice.html An updated page in "Let's Tour Street-to-home. http://www.geocities.com/streettohome A comment on Greg Calder's "Incident Report". 14 march 2007 ************************************************************************** The Mitcham Girls High School supplied the tuna mournay at the Thursday Fred�s Van meal last week. It was terrific though one gentleman said he would prefer the Mitcham High School Girls to the Mitcham High School Girls tuna mournay. Three of the school girls were present and served their tuna mournay. The gentleman said the tuna muournay was great but he preferred the girls. Another man said he wanted both. The Mitcham Girls High School girls didn�t smile as they served the mournay and it was a very strange evening. 13 March 2007 ************************************************* �This is our justice,� said a man amongst a group who were kicking and stomping on another man trying to hide under a car and shrieking like an injured dog being kicked to death. This was at Fred�s Van. Posted 13 March 2007 ******************************************************************************** Greg Calder of Street-to-home accused of falsifying an �Incident Report�? Department of Health and a police report indicate that an alleged assault on a man in the Street-to-home foyer last year by Greg Calder, differ greatly from the alleged victim�s account. One accusation is that Calder allegedly made a false statement and had two subordinate employees act as witnesses and sign his account despite them not being present for much of the �fracas�. Who is telling the truth: the alleged victim or Calder and his two witnesses? Maybe everyone has exaggerated. What appears possible is that Calder allegedly may have assaulted the man but has the witnesses to avoid being convicted in a court of law. The crucial aspect is the integrity of the witnesses. 13 March 2007 John Green from Barmera was seen at the Roulette Wheel at the Adelaide SkyCity Casino last week. It isn�t known whose money he was losing. He was also seen on Tuesday at Fred�s Van. He spent most of the time talking to an older man who has a propensity to offer help to homeless people despite he himself being very poor. You can guess what the Scam Artist is up to. 9 March 2007 ****************************************************** The Salvation Army can�t criticise the harsh treatment of unemployed or homeless people because the government will cut its funding if it does. Many big charity groups have sold out by taking government money, especially via the Job Network. 8 March 2007 ******************************************** About fifty people are being kicked out of their flats in Woodville Gardens and Ferryden Park. HousingSA is selling the units to Westwood who will redevelop the site then rent the units back at much higher rents than before and not to the former tenants. The evicted people, most disabled pensioners, are being offered places in Port Pirie and Elizabeth despite their social and support networks being in the Port Adelaide area. I wonder if that dope, Cappo, will have anything to say about it. 8 March 2007 ****************************************** One of Adelaide�s leading can and bottle collectors replaced his old fridge trolley with a big new red thing with inflatable tires. First one wheel fell off and he ended up pushing the thing around on one wheel. Then the tires kept getting punctures so now he is back with his old fridge trolley. A new fellow has entered the can collecting scene with a brand new scooter/motorbike and pulling a trailer. Who is this stranger? 8 March 2007 ****************************************** �Where�s the blue trauma box?� asked one Emergency Technology Ambulance officer at Fred�s Van. �I don�t know,� replied the other officer. �It�s the one with the bandages in it.� �Haven�t seen it,� the second officer answered. 6 March 2007 ******************************************************8888 Beware of Greg Calder and other Street-to-home types offering free lunches. There isn�t anything as a free lunch especially from these types of people. 6 March 2007 ********************************************** Gerald (the man with the German accent) and Allan (the fellow who cooks sausages at noon on Fridays in Light Square) are replacing Warren at the Teen Challenge meal in Hindmarsh Square on Thursdays at 5:30pm. 6 March 2007 ***************************************************** That guy with the two vicious dogs The fellow who goes to Fred�s Van with those two pit bull terriers was charged with encouraging his dogs to attack and resisting arrest last week. His dogs allegedly bit someone walking through the parklands at 1pm. The dog owner once said to me, �Do yourself a favour and don�t feed my dogs,� when I gave them the pig�s meat from a Fred�s Van sandwich. I�m glad he didn�t request his dogs to attack me though he looked like he was going to do it himself. 5 March 2007 ***************************************************************** Thanks to Monika and David Norm asked me to say a belated thanks to Monika Baker and David Rigney of Welfare Rights Centre for saving him from the being kicked off the dole in 2000 when a vicious Centrelink employee stopped payments because Norm was handing out leaflets she didn�t approve of. It was totally political and the pair demolished Centrelink�s trumped up charge and the city office manager that did the corrupt deed was transferred sideways to a position where she no longer had contact with unemployed people. 5 March 2007 ***************************************************** Periscope Bye-Bye Wayne was at the back of Cash Converters in Gouger Street when he saw his telescope wheeled by on a trolley. He told them it was his telescope but they wouldn�t give it to him. His wife, �D�, living in Elizabeth Downs with �C�, apparently brought it in. �C� has apparently got her to stop drinking alcohol. 2 March 2007 ************************************************* David Waterford of Social Inclusion Commission Will David Waterford�s Roseanne Haggerty report recommend projects and policies that have already been applied before Roseanne got her $250,000 contract? This way the government can later say everything has been achieved with homelessness that was recommended in the report, without actually doing anything. 2 March 2007 ****************************************************** Long Live the Warren Warren is leaving the Thursday night meal scene with Teen Challenge in Hindmarsh Square and going to work in the Teen Challenge half-way house at St Lukes. It will be a sort of detox in preparation for clients transferring to a church-based rehabilitation from drugs and alcohol. 2 March 2007 ****************************************************** An Old Hand Speaks �It�s always the blow-ins,� said one man who sleeps year-in, year-out in the parklands. He was referring to some loud arguing verging on a physical fight at Hindmarsh Square. 2 March 2007 ******************************************************** Moral of the Story ? Police emptied a wine cask taken from the handbag of an Aboriginal woman in Rundle Mall last night at 8pm. Nearby, other people were drinking alcohol yet not approached by the police. The reason was they were paying $5 a glass at �Buskers� outdoor caf� in Rundle Mall. 2 March 2007 ******************************* You Stinking Disgrace, Rann Rumour has it that Premier Mike Rann turned up at the Hutt Street Homeless Centre 2006 Christmas Lunch to serve meals to the clients. Wasn�t that generous? Well, he served three meals while the media cameras were focussed on him and David Cappo, then walked out of the building without wishing anyone, �Merry Christmas� or even shaking anyone�s hand. Pure political exploitation. Why do the Hutt Street management allow this to happen? Thanks to �Unseen, banned� 1 March 2007 ************************************************************** Another person not happy with John Green �one thing i will do though is, i will "out" you s.j. ... you know me. i have lent an ear, offered support and freindship to you. no more... you surprise me, i thought better than that of you.� Message on a chat forum. The subject is �shortyjag�, a user-name of the Scam Artist. I�m not sure of the writer�s identity. who appears new on the forum scene. 1 March 2007 ******************************************************** "Anne Moran has lost her block," said Howard Williams, at the Adelaide Central Mission yesterday. He was commenting on Sunday opening at the Central Markets. 1 March 2007 *************************************************************************** Robert, who uses Fred�s Van, reports that it is the man from Roxy Caf�, opposite Gawler Courtyard, who regularly leaves a cardboard tray of his end of day bakery products for the waiting Fred�s Van clients. There is no fanfare. He simply places the box down then walks down the street. Roxy Caf� is a business worth supporting. 27 February 2007 ************************************************ Why do those dopes from �Police Security� turn up at Fred�s Van then not stay for the full forty minutes during which volunteers are serving the food. A volunteer was sorely tormented by one nasty dude who deliberately targets him when he serves once each five weeks. 27 February 2007 *********************************************** An insider reports that services for homeless are being reduced by churches because of big payments to victims of church child molesters. 27 February 2007 ************************************************ The government is responding to the deteriorating eyesight of mental patients due to the side-effects of the psychiatric drugs that they reduce eyesight to the point of �legal blindness�. They visit Supported Residential Facilities (doss houses) and give residents pairs of $5 reading glasses. 27 February 2007 ************************************************ A Dentist visited a Support Residential Facility in Norwood for mentally disabled people. The kitchen became the dental surgery and a kitchen chair became the patient chair. The dentist inspected residents� teeth but faced the dilemma about what to do. Psychiatric drugs turn teeth brown within months and soon these dirty-looking teeth crumble. It isn�t the patients� faults: brushing is as effective as screwing for virginity. The main treatment is extracting them one-by-one until they�re all gone. Then, cheapo dentures are fitted. 27 February 2007 ************************************************* I wonder how much this latest Cappo report: "Stepping-Up: A Social Inclusion Plan for Mental Health Reform 2007-2112", cost. Sandra Kanck, Democrat MP, asked the government six months previously how much of Social Inclusion money is spent on office expenses and traveling. She said the government ignored the questions as they do to 99% of her questions. 27 February 2007 ************************************************ Rest in Peace Leading Adelaide psychiatrist, Professor Rob Barrett, is reported to have shown the wider community that even mental health professionals suffer psychiatric disorders. He jumped off the car park at Adelaide University last month. He had been suffering depression for ten years. He leaves behind a wife and teenage daughter. His death is a loss to many people. 26 February 2007 ************************************************** That meddling priest, David Cappo, has produced another report, or at least put his name to one. It is called "Stepping-Up: A Social Inclusion Plan for Mental Health Reform 2007-2112". The deceptive language is difficult to decipher but it seems to indicate recommended changes such as bulldozing older buildings at Glenside Hospital; selling off the land; reduced acute accommodation at Glenside Hospital and building new Supported Residential Facilities (doss houses). This appears a continuation of the "normalisation" plan of the 1980's where most of Hillcrest Hospital was shut down and sold to a football club that later went bankrupt. By reducing "beds" at Glenside patients will be increasingly pushed into the psychiatric wards at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and other general hospitals. These are high stimulation environments, just the opposite of what many patients require, and to keep patients "subdued" they will be given even higher amounts of drugs, with the usual disastrous consequences to their bodies. Cappo also wants to reduce patient privacy and if he gets his way then personal medical details will be shared with a number of other agencies without the patients' permission or knowledge. The whole thing appears like the Housing Trust reform and we all know where that ended up. 26 February 2007 *************************************************** "I know twenty people who have committed suicide," said a man at a free meal place. He overcame a life-threatening bi-polar condition and now lives a healthy, productive and moral life. 26 February 2007 ***************************************************** There was a thick, quality yoghourt at Fred's Van on Thursday. They wanted clients to add it to the rice and curry, but overestimated our culinary sophistication. Most took the yoghourt in a separate dish though staff used the rice spoon to serve it meaning that it contained small bits of curry rice. One man used an empty and cleaned food container from the earlier Jasmin Restaurant meal at Hindmarsh Square to take the yoghourt "home". 26 February 2007 ********************************************* "Shut-up or you'll get a smack," said a man to his girlfriend. She had been yelling at him for twenty minutes because he had been looking at a white woman. He emphasised the point by smacking the leaves of a tree with a subtle piece of branch. 26 February 2007 *************************************************** Peter ****** got kicked out of Disability Information and Resource Centre last week. He had taken over a section of the library declaring it as "The War Room" to fend off an attack of 200,000 speed boats. He said he would be taken to Pakistan and become the next Mohammed though later changed his tune and said he was Satan. He said this change was okay because he had many personalities. He is a great fellow though his speech tends to make other people bow their heads and cover their faces with their hands and whisper to themselves, "help, help, help." He is being helped by the psychiatric and welfare system and has been plonked in a place in beautiful downtown Kilburn where someone has already thrown a brick through one of his windows. 26 February 2007 ************************************************** "It's human nature that people become dependent and if you give them everything free then they expect it and if you withdraw it they become angry," a client at Fred's Van told me. 26 February 2007 **************************************************** �He�ll do it cheaper.� A gentleman saying a mate was willing to �give the Scam Artist a beating� after the former Editor of this gossip column mentioned that someone else had already offered to get the loan back, one way or another, for $200. The former Editor thanked all concerned for their offers saying he preferred legal procedures and didn�t want the Scam Artist physically beaten as long as the Scam Artist doesn't manipulate others to attack the former Editor. . John Green has been seen at Catholic homeless agencies: Hutt Street, Otherway and Fred�s Van because he is of the Catholic faith from Barmera. He will soon be earning people�s trust with his forthright manner and getting them to emotionally buy into his desperate situation. Then he will ask for a substantial loan for a short period then disappear. The whole scenario will then play itself out again until he finds a new target. What a life. 23 February 2007 ************************************************ The Secret Room at Hutt Street Centre If you seek blankets and kitchenware from Hutt Street Centre and they say they don't have anything then just mention The Secret Room in the administration building. It is crammed with lots of good stuff. 19 February 2007 ************************************ "It's the religion. You feel obligated to believe in their faith. When you don't, you feel like you've gone there under false pretenses." A woman saying why few go to the Teen Challenge van in Light Squuare, Adelaide for Friday lunch. 19 February 2007 *********************************************** Very Good Food "Jasmin Restaurant quality" hamburgers and chips were served at Teen Challenge last Thursday. Even the vegetarian curry and rice at Fred�s Van was good. The rice was in separate granules instead of mashed together in some glug. The curry had enough bite and was fresh. Good cooks all round. The free bread doesn�t seem to appear anymore at the table at Otherway though there is heaps at Westcare. 19 February 2007 *********************************** �You�re not going back to your unit.� Someone at Westcare quoting some social worker type trying to get someone institutionalized. It might have been Gladys they were talking about. A nursing home would kill Gladys. 19 February 2007 ****************************************** The homeless services at St Lukes was closed down a few years ago due to management corruption, according to an inside source. Homeless clients couldn�t understand how the employees displayed such wealth. Even Christmas food hampers and other food donated for the homeless somehow ended up being sold in the coffee shop and money used.... It is finally being re-opened under Teen Challenge management. 16 February 2007 ***************************************************** "RANN FIDDLES WHILE GLENSIDE CHURNS " From a Sandra Kanck media release 16 February 2007 *************************************************** Gladys who turned 80 at Christmas hasn�t been around Whitmore Square recently. �She�s in hospital getting her foot cut off,� said the woman who got married at Westcare today.� She�s going into a nursing home when she gets out.� 16 February 2007 ************************************************** Home |
