WEEKLY EDITION OCT 25, 2017
What Two Days in a Toilet Can Do
Update on the portable unit sit-in fundraiser for Thomas Grice's
new wheelchair
Thomas Grice will get his wheelchair. After 48 hours spent inside
a portable unit, Louise Marnoch released herself to the
supportive, cheering crowd around her. "It was a bit nasty…I
became fed up of my own space and my own company", she
said about her lock-down, "but we got the chair and that's what
it's about." At 21 Thomas has outgrown the chair he's been using
since age 11. He was there when she came emerged from the
loo where she slept, ate, and blogged for two days, and was able
to thank her and tell her how proud he was of her endeavor. To
this she replied, "I was uncomfortable for two days but you're
uncomfortable every day".
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Hepatitis Continues to Hit
California's Homeless
How cities are responding to the continued
outbreak
Add Los Angeles to the list of cities in
California currently fighting the Hepatitis A
epidemic. After a few cases in a homeless
community could not be linked to San Diego
or Santa Cruz, L.A. was forced to declare a
local outbreak. 18 deaths have now been
reported in the state and 80,000 at-risk people
have been vaccinated leading Governor Jerry
Brown to declare a state of emergency. City
Councilman Mike Bonin has asked that L.A. look into providing a system of emergency portable toilets and
attendants to service them in order to combat the disease in the homeless community. There are currently
only nine public toilets open at night where there are around 1,800 homeless people.
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