Letter: Proud of our community and all the people who care

Thank you for publishing Steve Card's report on the first winter season of our new homeless shelter. It has been a long time coming — I am lucky to have lived in Newport for most all of that time and worked in a variety of ways with the less fortunate of our community since we moved here in 1978.

Helping the homeless with food and shelter has been the goal of many caring people all that time, and with this wonderful shelter, a big part of that goal has been reached.

I regret that I am now not physically able to be right in there working beside the people who made this all happen in both Newport and Lincoln City, but seeing the success of the first season in operation makes me so terribly proud of our community and all the people who care.

Vicki Norton

Newport