DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - A Davenport homeless shelter that closed two months ago due to damage storm has reopened.
The storm ripped the roof off of the year-round homeless shelter operated by the King’s Harvest Ministries on Oct. 6. The shelter serves men and women.
Volunteers opened an emergency overflow shelter on the first floor of the building on Dec. 1. The third floor remains closed as crews finish renovation work, which is expected to take another month. But the meal site reopened in November and serves lunch Wednesdays and Fridays, according to the Quad-City Times (https://bit.ly/2hMazb0 ).
Director Terri Gleize said the emergency shelter has taken in about 50 people every night. She anticipates more people will seek help at the shelter as the temperatures drop, and said the emergency shelter opened just in time.
“I think it was just a miracle,” Gleize said. “We really didn’t think it was going to happen.”
Residents who rented apartments on the third floor are now staying on the second floor with homeless residents displaced by the storm.
The organization also plans to reopen a pet rescue in Davenport on Monday. That facility was temporarily closed in early September when a fungus outbreak affected some cats.
“We have many kittens that unfortunately were not able to be adopted that are turning into teenagers,” Gleize said. “We are hoping to clear the shelter.”
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Information from: Quad-City Times, https://www.qctimes.com
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