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it gets out, and people start getting free stuff, it has gotten crazy.”

For the last decade, they have been receiving display and returned items from Bed, Bath and Beyond to be distributed. Within the past few years, the distribution took place out of a semi-truck trailer parked behind The Rock Church in Monroe, 16891 146th St. SE off of Fry-elands Boulevard.

According to Nix, the trailer will soon be receiving items

from Walmart as well.Nix said anyone can email

her for specific needs or re-quests at donations@provi-dehope.org and she will try to accommodate. On the third Monday of every month, Nix posts numbered items to the Facebook group page and whoever claims the item first in the comments can pick it up the following Monday. To join the group visit www.facebook.com/groups/374855816953226. For more information re-garding food distribution, visit www.providehope.org or Provide Hope’s Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ProvideHopeFR.

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Blessings

In the county’s annual, one-day Point in Time Count of homelessness in January 2020, volunteer counters found and interviewed 1,132 homeless people. Of these, 673 people were living with-out shelter, and 459 people were in a sheltered but not-secure living situation, such as on a friend’s couch.

Shelters today have had to limit capacity to meet coro-navirus safety measures. By County Executive Dave Somers’ order, the county set up an emergency shel-ter in the Carnegie Building in downtown Everett after people began camping in large groups. The Carnegie’s basement houses about 40 to 50 people nightly, county human services director Mary Jane Brell Vujovic said in November. (The county is actively working to establish a permanent shelter. It must fi rst identify and purchase a building to retrofit into the permanent shelter, Brell Vu-jovic said.)

People experiencing chronic homelessness — classified as more than 12 months of being homeless or having multiple long stints of homelessness over the past 36 months — represents more than 50 percent of the county’s homeless popula-tion. Among unsheltered

people, more than half of the population are also chroni-cally homeless. The heavier representation in the annual counts has been like that since 2017, from analyzing count data from the past 10 years.

The number of people who are experiencing long-term homelessness is outpacing the number of new shelter beds and housing to pro-vide long-term housing, the county noted.

The chances of dying prematurely are higher for homeless individuals, albeit people experiencing home-lessness often die from the same mortal causes as the housed. Being unsheltered is what worsens the odds and increases the risk of prema-ture death, according to a 2005 report from the Nation-al Health Care for the Home-less Council.

The county’s 10th annual vigil Dec. 21 was not done with a traditional public gathering outdoors to have people acknowledge feel-ing winter’s sharp chill. The prayerful ceremonies were streamed on video and can be seen on YouTube.

The vigil’s keynote speak-er was Todd Mitchell, who works with homeless men daily at the Everett Gospel Mission’s Men’s Shelter. Mitchell read a poem for his comments. Its last lines: “As we lay you to rest, know you are never alone. You carry on in our hearts, our friend.”

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Deaths

Two escape late-night house fi re in Snohomish

By TRIBUNE STAFF

SNOHOMISH — Two people escaped a house fire just before midnight Monday, Dec. 21 in the 9000 block of 50th Street SE (behind the Washington Tractor store on Bickford Avenue).

The two occupants were trapped but got out through a window. Firefi ghters arrived to find the two-story house fully involved with fl ames on both floors and in the attic, a Snohomish Fire District 4 report said.

There were no injuries or

fatalities. The Red Cross is as-sisting the home occupants.

The fire brought out many Fire District 4 crew members as well as crews from Sno-homish Regional Fire and Rescue and Everett Fire.

Firefighters got the fire knocked down within about 20 minutes of arrival by bat-tling it from the exterior. They used a ladder truck and a water tanker truck, among other fi re rigs, to control and douse the fl ames.

The fire’s cause was under investigation by the county fi re marshal as of last week.

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