Cold Snap Filling Emergency Shelters

Souls Harbour Says There's Room for Everyone, Somewhere

News Talk 650
Reported By Geoff Smith

The cold weather hits especially hard for people who are without a warm bed.

Derrick Moore with Souls Harbour RESCUE Mission says its own emergency shelter has been full. It has beds for men and women.

But he explains there are other places the agency can send people, like Mobile Crisis Services and the Salvation Army. In fact, last year Moore says during a cold snap a church approached them offering mattresses in their gym.

"If someone's approaching us, if we're aware that someone needs it, they're not going to sleep outside," says Moore.

"We'll find a spot somewhere."

Moore was speaking as employees from SGI donated more than seven thousand individual toiletries, like toothpaste and shampoo, for use in the shelters.