Jim Featherstone
Jim Featherstone
James "Jim"/"Jimmy" J. Featherstonebirth registered in Wigan, was an English professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s playing at representative level for Great Britain, England, and Lancashire, and at club level for Wigan, Warrington, Belle Vue Rangers, and Rochdale Hornets, as a Prop, or Second-row, i.e. number 8 or 10, 11 or 12, during the era of contested scrums...
along bridges camps change chronic effort gets group homeless improve offer people programs services shelter warm weather winter
We do have a group of about 50 people who are chronic homeless. They use the winter shelter when the weather is bad, but once it gets warm they are back at their makeshift camps under the bridges and along the river. They make very little effort to use the homeless services and improve their lives. We can offer all the programs in the world, but if they don't want to use them and don't want to change their lifestyles, there isn't much we can do about it.