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‘We will never arrest our way out of homelessness’: Vancouver panel discusses criminalization

October 25, 2024, 1:54pm Clark County News

The Portland attorney who took a landmark case on homelessness to the U.S. Supreme Court calls fining people for sleeping outside “the leaf-blower approach.” Read story

Donated dump truck delivers for Share’s Talkin’ Trash program in Vancouver

August 13, 2024, 6:07am Business

A program that cleans up litter around Vancouver has received a heavy-duty donation that will boost efficiency: a dump truck. Read story

The Chase family — clockwise from bottom left, Otis, 9, Jason, 14, Nate, 11, and Lisa — eat together on Tuesday during a Share Vancouver Summer Meals Program service at Cascade Park Community Library in east Vancouver. The program provides daily free lunches to youth 18 and younger between June 24 and Aug. 9.

Share’s Summer Meal Program moves into apartment complexes to feed more Clark County children

July 17, 2024, 6:06am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

Nine-year-old Otis Chase was excited to reread one of his favorite books, Pablo Cartaya’s “The Last Beekeeper.” But he needed to wolf down his lunch first. Read story

Tents line the sidewalk outside of Share House in October in Vancouver.

City forgives $15,000 of loan Share Vancouver stopped paying on in 2010

February 27, 2024, 2:18pm Clark County News

The Vancouver City Council on Monday forgave $15,000 of a $25,000 loan that homeless organization Share received in 1999. Still, some councilors voiced concerns about why Share stopped making payments on the loan in 2010. Read story

Clark County, Vancouver gain $2.3 million for housing

January 30, 2024, 5:55am Clark County News

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded more than $2.3 million in funds to Clark County and Vancouver for Continuum of Care programs, which are efforts by local governments and nonprofits to house people experiencing homelessness and keep them housed long term. Read story

The persistent freezing weather has led to a busy time for warming shelters. The icy conditions also thinned the ranks of volunteers and staff at the shelters.

Clark County shelters, nonprofits stretched to limit by cold

January 20, 2024, 6:05am Churches & Religion

As many people across Clark County struggled to leave home during this week’s icy conditions, people experiencing homelessness desperately sought to get indoors. They overwhelmed warming shelters as freezing temperatures persisted. Read story

Share marks 20th anniversary of Summer Meals program

Volunteers Leslie Matheney, center, and Vitaliy Shkurov, left, of IDM Cos. help assemble lunches for kids in need while working in the kitchen at Fort Vancouver High School. Share is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its summer meal program.

Among the crinkling of brown lunch sacks and soft chatter floating in the air, Leslie Matheney slips little plastic containers filled with ingredients needed to make a pizza: pepperoni, mozzarella cheese, peppers and the controversial pineapple. Read story