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  2. Report: Lexington homeless population is up 26%. Advocates ...

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    The Catholic Action Center shelter on Industry Road receives no city money. The city has spent $44 million over the past five years on various homeless services and programs, officials have said.

  3. Woman loses over 700 pounds of bologna after Texas border ...

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    September 26, 2024 at 9:04 PM. One woman lost a whole lot of meat and then some on Monday, following an inspection at the U.S.- Mexico border in Texas. About 748 pounds of bologna, 280 boxes of ...

  4. Women's shelter - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A women's shelter, also known as a women's refuge and battered women's shelter, is a place of temporary protection and support for women escaping domestic violence and intimate partner violence of all forms. [1] The term is also frequently used to describe a location for the same purpose that is open to people of all genders at risk.

  5. Bonnie Tinker - Wikipedia

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    During college, Tinker worked for Michigan Migrant Opportunity, a federal anti-poverty program. After college, she was a member of the Red Emma Collective in Portland, Oregon, and helped establish a women's clinic and a Quaker women's shelter. From 1975 to 1979, she served as founding director of Bradley-Angle House, another women's shelter.

  6. Rosie's Place - Wikipedia

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    Founding. On April 14th 1974, at age 48, Tiernan founded Rosie's Place, America's first shelter for homeless women. The organization started in a former Rozen's Supermarket, which Tiernan leased from the Boston Redevelopment Authority for a dollar. She fixed the place up with $250 in donations she gathered from friends in the suburbs.

  7. Find a fur-ever friend. 'Clear the Shelters' pet adoption ...

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    The national "Clear the Shelters" event is coming to VCA in Bensalem and the Women's Animal Center in Bensalem on Sept. 7, 2024 when both organizations are waiving adoption fees for the day to ...

  8. Women's health movement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    – A male gynecologist to Margaret Sanger, as quoted in her autobiography Patricia Maginnis founded the Citizens Committee for Humane Abortion Laws (CCHAL) in 1962, while she attended San Jose State University. In 1963, she moved the organization to San Francisco and Rowena Gurner joined CCHAL. In 1964, Gurner and Maginnis changed the organization's name to The Society for Humane Abortion ...

  9. Bloomington's shelter for unhoused women is closing again ...

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