Updated at 12:24 p.m., Friday, February 2, 2007
Lingle returns to Wai'anae for homelessness update
Advertiser Staff
Gov. Linda Lingle heads back to Wai'anae next week to update the Leeward Coast community on efforts to respond to the homeless problem there.Lingle will meet with the community from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Wai'anae District Park's multipurpose room, 85-601 Farrington Highway, to discuss her administration's homelessness solutions efforts along O'ahu's Leeward Coast.
She said the meeting is a follow-up to the June 27 meeting she hosted "to bring together homeless advocates, service providers, faith-based organizations, lawmakers, community leaders, the private sector, military and state and county agencies to address the problem of homelessness in the Leeward Coast area."
Since then, her administration opened the Onelau'ena transitional shelter in Kalaeloa in October and is preparing to open a Wai'anae Civic Center emergency homeless shelter this month.
