| Show - - r PL4volk 1J v - - - -- — - 4 ws114 -- ' 41' r'' if - - - f 4W 5 fitt 411 The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday November 26 1989 HOMELESS IN SALT LAKE CITY - 41111111 0lap : : irii i i'::i ': ' ' 7 :': '' - "' ''' :''' I '4' '4 3" p y it '''t All''''' v?4Ait!--- u ''"47: ' ts'1 ' - " lf!4'4 Akt - :Lt ''''vle- e cAtirt ' :: LI !t41 04 4' 7 14st ' ::::i') Nt'it 1':A: I i woli4 '5 :‘1-'- :1: -t - ' il: Cir 447'7At'4 :- - : i anoni 3 ' ''-'- t:r''7N::::i - ' )1t1 :: i ) t ':Z "' ' ' ': 1 ::::!':7!' :' " z 4 - :1 ' ' '::' t ri' :VP 7!1" e 1‘ !' '''' (: ' I 1 1 5 ' b4 t - ::T ! r : '' i ' 07- :$41-- ' d ' p:::41' e Ar: :: 1 : ''': ' Air : 4NttS1 :4 - 14 :: :'":' icii: ei 4-zn:--i--- kvciK1:-!7747- AI : "''''''' iv 104'4 ' 'fl'' : ::::' ''X ' 1 '''V7' '' ' A ' ti- - ' 74 :iSelV:: ' ':' svrk '''''IF-Ai'-3F- L: 7' ' - ' - t - AF: :1? : r I : 0 '4- ' t"- ' :: i31--k-- ' r - —tribune Start Pnotos by Pict Egon on nights when a church group doesn't bring dinner to the family shelter Sharee and her children walk to the Salva- - Desperate to find a driving job to support her family Sheree seAns Job boards and puts in applications whenever she can 7771 -'- k -- lir 4 Xya g iiii' - et' '' '' 4 :' ''e''SrAti:':141:13:74r : ':&'?"?:' :rsx tz) 0 Itt ) ::::':: :74 7) ta 1'''Cl'ft74 :' 7i:'-- s::" :::::r:ww ::o!144: ' - : 124t''77--U447?4- t!-4- : ::: )r ::”::54:: :::i:''i::( : :::::: '4" '117 :i0:tiNi't:i-iel'- f"ii10ii0 :''41f :('' !' - I ' ' i' '''4 - ::1: i::!::: :'?isoaxkl 14 tion Army up the street "It's scary out there at night" says Sharee "but what can we do? My kids have to eat" Divorce Poverty Sweep Family of 8 Out of Its Home J:fe1:' 1 Continued From B I her one man even laughed when she asked for an application "Everybody teased me about being 'macho' because I wanted to drive a truck" she: says "when all I was thinking about was getting a job that would pa me enough to feed my family" After several days of living with mother and having her no )uck with her job hunt Sharee turned to a local reverend in desperWe couldn't stay with my ation mother anymore — she is elderly and frail and the kids' noise was driving her crazy" she says "We had to move out I was thinking that we'd have to spend the night in the car until the reverend told me about this place" For 25 days now two small bedrooms in the family shelter have been "home" to Sharee and her childrenf Jennifer 14: Jason 12 Joshua 10 Jamie 8 Jeneal 6: Jeanine 4 and Jeremy 3 The family cat a manx named Floppy lived in the Oldsmobile for a few days until Sharee realized that her family would have to stay at the shelter longer than expected "So we took the cat to a shelter too where she can stay until we get We all out of here" says Sharee laughed about that The cat was in a shelter and so were we" Nobody is laughing now NM after nearly four weeks of living in a place ki here they thought they would remain for only four days "It's been scary for us" says Jennifer who resembles her mother with her long red hair creamy pale skin and a light sprinkling of freckles across her nose "Mom applied for welfare again and will get a check in December but it probably won't be enough to move us out We have to start over Sitting on her bed in cutoffs and a that says "Sh-- - Happens" rshirt -Vell it does' she says "or we ouldn't be here") Jennifer talks softly of the happy times she had in Kearns lust one month ago I earned $10 a week dusting furniture for a lady' who lived by us and I'd use the money to do stuff with my mends-- like roller skating" she sayS I was going to Bonneville Junior I ugh before we came here now go to a school in the shelter and I'm the oldest student I really miss my rnends especially my best friend I didn't tell her I was coming here We just left I guess that I'm dnbarrassed for my friends to find ait that kTre living here Embarrassment is only one of tatty emotions the liens have expe:diced since thdy checked into the I 101ter you feel angry you feel frustrat d you feel sad and sometimes you feel liku crying- says Sharee "I tilt' thing that's the hardest is tt 1ieint able to take care of yourWere Qrateful that we can stay but there ari so many rules to iind oil feel like you lose osed bed) going out to digrat: 04 for a drivw lob and I'm almost hot don t like to bum :t)f can get a voucher la to look inofty at raveler s a Joh bet ha“ too much prick !hell) fir inoney If I 11ike I I I I icot expenenue the das had was walking across ireet to 1itat in line with more :It 200 ()!Iifls men to eat lunch -- vinciht's "That first time ditH psi how bad off othir in this city' ii3yS Share(' ide er t their own story r:ison for ending up like 1!okini! at those VI Ople 1001ki' it eUtIld happen ha n - 1 1!7-- 1 - ':':ii: tt:'N Ac: - '::::::'':::J::')) :::::::!!1:q - : 0- - ' ' ' 'f Sl 4 - :::' H 0 - '4 : : ' ' I'i 4 V? 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You can't let your kids go hungry "We have access to a microwave in the shelter kitchen for an hour or so each night but I have nothing to prepare for my kids I have no money And even if 1 did you are not allowed to keep any food in your room Today somebody knocked on our door and came in to check under our beds and in our drawers for any hidden food If you get caught with it you can get in a lot of trouble even get kicked out of here And that's something I simply can't afford to have happen" Her children have all been sick since they moved into the shelter — Jeneal just got over strep throat and still has a bad cold If one child gets ill others catch the virus too because they spend so much time together "It's a little hard living around a bunch of people you don't know" Jason "because you says don't have any space to yourself It kind of feels like a motel only its worse It's real noisy all the time And when I first came here and saw those men sitting on the sidewalk I was scared I feel bad for them but they still scare me" -Staying inside is the hardest thing about living in a shelter" says Joshua 10 "because there isn't any grass to play on I want to be a baseball player when I grow up but there's no place to practice now Before I'd go play a game with my friends Marty and Mark I miss hanging out with them but I understand why we're in here My mom is trying to get a job — she feels bad we have to live here until she can get some money But I I yt11(r o A II n 4:- :- i ? ''! : rt3 ' : I 'ft k a 4 tv ' ' v 14 ) a "Ilk 1111- t ' Jeremy Allen 3 Is the youngest of the Allen kids Here he waits for his ' ' 0'" '" ' ' ' 1 1: ?''''5 it e'tii -- t 7--kl 4 '':'41br''' :1 - - - :4a-t'''':i- - e !' t'---- -- 401st - - !'--i - - t itA N htS - :- N4 i:o 'k - 4 k'-- '''i' ''''t '' V!-- ' :1: ' '( :: - ":':':::' '1 ''':!i:s: i it ':::':6: f ''' - ti:'i :1: ' :t'::' g!:: ::::: 41 '44)tlir '' 4It'' ' f::i - 47:01r2z:E:'E - 41' :::!' ' 4 4: 1 - t I :" e e : 1 I eii-11- - ' 4 i- : r r''71Ii i4e474'44P4:::4- 1 we: t- 1:1 " A - - - - 1 ment very exciting "I'd rather watch Batman or roller skate" he says Jason Allen 12 doesn't find anything about this particular school assign- - Joshua sorts through prized collection of baseball cards in his shelter room i" i e40011fee":-!'c- ' 'V' I IP:: if ktt 6k -' ' ' v- ::i'id i ' - ' Iii'":' ' —9— 1 s'i IT:t-:- Prkire"t - - qt- '"' - 1 :!4i ' ——------ iel ' t ' :i ti - '' : v'k: ' :7::''' ' tt 44 ')1i:1 )t ‘1 :! 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' : ': '": 1 '' 001E: :?i4:: ::::2 k ':':: IA ' :: $ ' 7Iv '''' - - :1!:A7 :: In : No '': '' tto )41 - -- 440 ia Y74ft111:7:511114:'':: 4' ::' f) 1' ort'4 ::: q '1 f (?ir-:e5- 0: J 411e' :4: :::: i r ': : :::::1:E:?': 1 :': Re ?i:0! :e': tif20 wi I 6-' T4---- :!-- r - understand" None of the Allen children expect much for Christmas they know that when their mother receives her welfare check it will have to be saved to go toward rent "I'd like some new clothes" says Jennifer "but other things need to come first now We can always find something to wear in the donation box" "If we have to be here for Christmas well I don't know" says Sharee fighting back tears "It just won't seem like Christmas I never have had a lot of money for nice gifts — maybe just a few things for each child But I always tried to give them whatever I could" She has plenty to worry about and now her is threatening to try and get custody of the children and move them to Richfield "I know it looks bad for me to be living here with the kids" says Sharee "but it's Just something that happened We just had a little bad luck that's all I love my kids — I don't want to give them up That's why I'm trying so hard to get a decent-payinjob I want to make a good life for them" ni not looking to haul swinging beef across the country she says "I mst want i little short-hau- l job say from Salt Lake to Provo or Ogden so I kon't have to spend nights away from my kids I even applied at ITTA Ow other day as a bus driver I really t ould hive to have a job like that I unh wish somebody would give me a chance Everybody keeps turning me do‘A n alit I m at the bottom of the Iarrel but I'm not giving up I'm a good mother I'm a good worker I'll do am it takes to get my family tlutng and give them a home of d - ---1 tr |
