MIDDLETOWN, N.Y.—The Middletown Warming Station opened for its 18th year in a row on Nov. 1, serving the homeless and needy for the rest of the winter season.
The station was renamed last spring to the Marilyn Pierce GMIC (Greater Middletown Interfaith Council) Warming Station after the late Marilyn Pierce, who greatly contributed to running the station over the past decade.
The station is opening three weeks earlier and closing two weeks later this year. The station opens for the cold months so the homeless do not have to sleep in shelters, police stations, or county-provided hotels.
Station co-chair Michele Duggan told The Epoch Times, “We looked at the data [for] Code Blue nights and found that over the past three years, 80 percent of nights in November are Code Blue nights.”…