Taking Blankets to the homeless downtown

Lisa, and Katrina were involved in helping link some interested donors with some of our community's homeless folks who stay down by the river and railroad tracks. They provided some blankets on the snowy/ cold evening of Saturday night. Tellman Knudsen, who is running across the country barefoot to raise awareness and money to address youth homelessness has been in our area for a few weeks. A representative from Blue Cross / Blue Shield in Parkersburg has hooked up with Tellman to help concretely address helping the homeless, and they needed a contact who could directly connect them with some folks who could benefit from receiving the blankets. So this transpired Saturday. You could visit Tellman's website: www.runtellmanrun.com to see some footage and coverage of his time in the Parkersburg area, including some footage of a visit he made to our Mid Town Family Resource Center about a week ago.