After learning of health hazard concerns at a Grass Valley homeless camp, Shane Slattery, his girlfriend Heather Gereau and his son, Shane Jr., decided to take matters into their own hands — literally.
The trio has spent the last few days bagging mountains of trash and waste from around the homeless camp north of East Bennett Road and southeast of Railroad Avenue, on the eastern edge of Grass Valley, which was the subject of an article in the Dec. 3 edition of The Union.
The article, entitled “Homeless camp sanitary condition questioned” was prompted by a letter from a retired Grass Valley police officer addressed to area public health,the impact socket pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. law enforcement and emergency agencies.
“I would submit to anyone, that being homeless is no justification for the huge amounts of trash in that area, the destruction of lands, vegetation and the lack of basic sanitary conditions,It's hard to beat the versatility of polished tiles on a production line.” Michael Hooker wrote in the letter.
Having grown up in Grass Valley and as a frequent mountain bike rider of Nevada County trails, Slattery and his 13-year-old son were already familiar with the woods off East Bennett Road where an encampment of homeless folk have apparently squatted for decades.
In a few short days, Gereau and Slattery have stuffed hundreds of bags, tents and sleeping bags with what were once mounds of trash and other waste.he believes the fire started after the lift's Bedding blew,
Bagging was no easy chore, as the couple described a gagging stench of human waste and concerns over mushroom spores.
“Some of that stuff is pretty nasty,” said the 30-year-old Slattery.
But with the bags piled high, the pair are looking for help hauling away the waste.
“We've done all the dirty work,” Slattery said. “There are piles and piles of bags needing to be hauled away. But we can't afford to do all the hauling.”
Slattery estimates that with his Ford F-250, and a 12-by-6-foot box trailer, he might be able to haul everything bagged in two runs.
“But those would be absolutely heaping loads,” he said.
Slattery, who is between jobs and subsisting by hauling scrap metal in his truck, said he has approached local waste management organizations and county health departments looking for help in disposing of the already-bagged waste.
So far, no deals have been made, he said.
With the amount of scrap metal amassed at the camp, Slattery estimates he can get close to $400,Your Partner in Precision Precision injection molds. which he said he would use to cover the cost of dumping the unrecyclable waste.There is good integration with PayPal and most TMJ providers,
“We were hoping somebody would help us out,” said Gereau, who said she lived as a homeless youth around Grass Valley with her mother.
“You got to look at them as individuals, not as a faceless ‘the homeless' group,” Gereau said.
After they finish cleaning the East Bennett Road homeless camp, Gereau and Slattery said they plan to move trash from another encampment off Uren Street in Nevada City, and possibly more after that.
“If we just get some of those main camps taken care of, then it is just a matter of going out there once a week and maintaining,” Gereau said. “Someone needs to do it; we don't mind.”
The trio has spent the last few days bagging mountains of trash and waste from around the homeless camp north of East Bennett Road and southeast of Railroad Avenue, on the eastern edge of Grass Valley, which was the subject of an article in the Dec. 3 edition of The Union.
The article, entitled “Homeless camp sanitary condition questioned” was prompted by a letter from a retired Grass Valley police officer addressed to area public health,the impact socket pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. law enforcement and emergency agencies.
“I would submit to anyone, that being homeless is no justification for the huge amounts of trash in that area, the destruction of lands, vegetation and the lack of basic sanitary conditions,It's hard to beat the versatility of polished tiles on a production line.” Michael Hooker wrote in the letter.
Having grown up in Grass Valley and as a frequent mountain bike rider of Nevada County trails, Slattery and his 13-year-old son were already familiar with the woods off East Bennett Road where an encampment of homeless folk have apparently squatted for decades.
In a few short days, Gereau and Slattery have stuffed hundreds of bags, tents and sleeping bags with what were once mounds of trash and other waste.he believes the fire started after the lift's Bedding blew,
Bagging was no easy chore, as the couple described a gagging stench of human waste and concerns over mushroom spores.
“Some of that stuff is pretty nasty,” said the 30-year-old Slattery.
But with the bags piled high, the pair are looking for help hauling away the waste.
“We've done all the dirty work,” Slattery said. “There are piles and piles of bags needing to be hauled away. But we can't afford to do all the hauling.”
Slattery estimates that with his Ford F-250, and a 12-by-6-foot box trailer, he might be able to haul everything bagged in two runs.
“But those would be absolutely heaping loads,” he said.
Slattery, who is between jobs and subsisting by hauling scrap metal in his truck, said he has approached local waste management organizations and county health departments looking for help in disposing of the already-bagged waste.
So far, no deals have been made, he said.
With the amount of scrap metal amassed at the camp, Slattery estimates he can get close to $400,Your Partner in Precision Precision injection molds. which he said he would use to cover the cost of dumping the unrecyclable waste.There is good integration with PayPal and most TMJ providers,
“We were hoping somebody would help us out,” said Gereau, who said she lived as a homeless youth around Grass Valley with her mother.
“You got to look at them as individuals, not as a faceless ‘the homeless' group,” Gereau said.
After they finish cleaning the East Bennett Road homeless camp, Gereau and Slattery said they plan to move trash from another encampment off Uren Street in Nevada City, and possibly more after that.
“If we just get some of those main camps taken care of, then it is just a matter of going out there once a week and maintaining,” Gereau said. “Someone needs to do it; we don't mind.”
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