A Cheap Place to Shower and Sleep
The old Rays on North 7th Street is perfect for this project I am Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener, and I have a dream: a no-frills hostel. Grants Pass will soon have a place for intoxicated people to sleep off their intoxication, thanks to Chief Landis and company. A Medford non-profit is proposing to start a juvenile shelter here like they have in Medford. Grace Roots, a Medically Assisted Treatment Center (MAT-C) for opiate addiction, is in the works, thanks largely to Nancy Yonally and the people she has gathered to help her. We already have the Gospel Rescue Mission with its showers, meals and residential rehab, and Faith House, a shelter for battered women and their children. The Salvation Army soup kitchen is another long-established feature in Grants Pass. Now we need a cheap place to shower and sleep for people who are not intoxicated, not juvenile, not seeking help for addictions, not battered, or for whom there is no room in other shelters. It’s time to start a