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Homeless veteran village finally opens in Shelton
Lonnie Spikes Jr., the vice president of the board of directors of Quixote Communities, addresses an audience at the grand opening of the Shelton Veterans Village on Tuesday on North 13th Street in Shelton. About 150 people attended the event.
About six years after it was proposed, the Shelton Veterans Village finally opened its doors Tuesday to about 150 people celebrating the new residence for 30 homeless Mason County veterans.
The nonprofit organization Quixote Communities operates the village on North 13th Street across from Christmas Village. It features seven four-plexes, one duplex and a community building that includes a laundry room, two bathrooms, three offices and a boardroom. The group also has homeless villages in Orting and Olympia.
In an email to the Journal, Quixote Communities Executive Director Colleen Carmichael s...
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