​Lamoille Community House is a 12-bed adult warming shelter serving adult men and women experiencing homelessness in the Lamoille Valley. Our shelter offers beds, hot showers, hot meals, laundry and access to social services based on need. Our hours are:
4:30pm-7:00am M-F                  4:30pm-8:30am Sat-Sun
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       LCH BREAKING NEWS, June 11, 2019
                   
LCH Receives Jim Marvin Community Service Award!
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​             Shine a Light! On Friday, the shortest day of the year, more than 40 people gathered for a candlelight vigil in front of the courthouse on Hyde Park village’s Main Street. The rain that had been steadily falling for more than 24 hours had stopped shortly before, and the gathered listened to faith leaders and sang “Imagine” by John Lennon.
Sherry Marcelino, a homeless advocate who works with Lamoille County Mental Health Services, said there has been an increase of awareness about local homelessness over the past year. And, in the past two weeks, the Hyde Park zoning office came under increased scrutiny over how long it was taking to take action on the homeless shelter, which Marcelino thinks may have played a role in getting the decision.
“They say there’s six degrees of separation in the world. There’s, like, two in Lamoille County,” Marcelino said. “So, chances are if you don’t have a story, your neighbor has a story or your relative has a story, and it’s easy to make that connection.”
Kylie Brown, a worker at Capstone Community Action, was the first volunteer the interfaith coalition had a year ago, when Father Rick Swanson opened his Stowe church as an emergency shelter, and has volunteered several times since. Brown said every person who comes to the shelter has a story, and when parents stay over with their kids, the youth “are chatty and they bring everybody to a better place.”
She said, contrary to concerns by some residents about “quote, unquote, junkies on the streets,” most guests get up in the morning and go to work or go to their various support services agencies. She said they don’t want to draw attention to themselves any more than naysayers don’t want them to come to their town.
“The folks you are so worried about have probably been living right here in Hyde Park village on the backside of the (Lamoille Valley) Rail Trail all summer and nobody knew they were there anyway,” Brown said. “They just want a nice meal and a warm shower, and put some dry socks on and face the next day somewhat better than they did when they came in.”
Photo by Gordon Miller, News and Citizen/Stowe Reporter.  See more of Gordon's photos in the Gallery.

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