Give Me Shelter - Segment 8 - The End of the Beginning

Give Me Shelter - Segment 8 - "The End of the Beginning." The City’s contract with Jewels Helping Hands to operate the Cannon Street Warming Center had always been scheduled to end at Midnight, on Thursday, April 30. Because of the Governor’s statewide Coronavirus Stay-At-Home order, expectations were that the contract would be temporarily extended. But on Wednesday, April 29, The City of Spokane informed Jewels Helping Hands that their contract would not be extended and that the City planned to close the shelter for renovations. The 110 residents would be displaced with nowhere to go. After all, it was the shelter nobody wanted, and allowing it to end with the expiration of the contract seemed like a simple solution. We were present that evening when Julie announced the shelter-closing to the Staff and residents.