Published: Dec. 13, 2010
Updated: Dec. 14, 2010 5:24 a.m.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2010 5:24 a.m.
Despite cold temps, shelter opening delayed
By YVETTE CABRERA
COLUMNIST
REGISTER COLUMNIST
Last month, when a cold chill pierced our normally sunny Orange County bubble, I could think of only one thing, and despite the approaching holidays it had nothing to do with visions of sugar plums or yuletide festivities.
I had the homeless on my mind, all 21,479 of them. That’s the official county estimate for those expected to become homeless over the course of a year in Orange County.
Gordon Henderson, 44, and his 11-year-old daughter Angel, await the opening of Orange County’s Cold Weather Armory Emergency Shelter Program, which opened at two alternate sites on Dec. 6, including the First Evangelical Free Church in Fullerton. Henderson didn’t know where he and his daughter would spend the night until he learned of the shelter opening in Fullerton.
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