Homeless

OGDEN -- When it comes to fighting against homelessness, Catholic Community Services of Northern Utah is losing its strong arm.

The agency is spending the last of its American Recovery Act funds, sometimes referred to as stimulus money, that it has been using for a Homeless Prevention and Recovery Program (HPRP) and a Rapid Rehousing Program in Weber County.

The organization received about $1 million to help with this need and it will run out of that money next month.

MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE -- When you ask the Rev. Michelle Perry, of First United Methodist Church, about her immediate family, she tells you first about her dog, Goose.

Many of us are in the midst of another busy Christmas season. We are busy decorating, planning parties, buying gifts and so forth. But how many of us teenagers stop to think about those less fortunate than ourselves and really appreciate what we have?

OGDEN — The community is invited to help United Whole Health raise food for the homeless by coming to a health fair from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at Dancing Lotus, 893 24th St.

OGDEN -- The Ogden City Council unanimously approved donating 1.1 acres of land to make more room for the chronically homeless.

OGDEN -- Spending a night in a box was on 10th-grader Kiley Matthews' bucket list.

Now she can scratch that off.

She and about 17 other Girl Scouts spent Friday night sleeping outside in cardboard boxes just big enough for them, their blankets and animal-shaped pillows. The sleepover was meant to show them firsthand what it's like to be one of Utah's thousands of homeless. There were 14,351 people who were homeless throughout the state as of the annual head count in January.