{"id":701,"date":"2009-02-24T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=701"},"modified":"2009-02-23T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:21:00","slug":"salvation-army-opens-door-to-new-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2009\/02\/24\/salvation-army-opens-door-to-new-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation Army opens door to new shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Advisory Board Chair Jill Crow names new Salvation Army shelter to be named in honor of volunteer contractor James D. Amos <\/p><\/div>\n

The Salvation Army officially opened the doors to its new $500,000 Kraft Street Shelter on Sunday in a ribbon-cutting ceremony that also named the facility after its volunteer contractor, James D. Amos. Amos, in a very brief statement, said he saw the need for the building, but \u201cGod was the power\u201d in getting the job done.<\/p>\n

Majors Grady and Shelly Pearson greeted over one hundred city and\u00a0 business leaders, along with the general public, gathered for tours of the building, a \u201cdream\u201d that became reality because of strong community support.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally, Clarksville has a new shelter. It\u2019s a blessing to the community, and there is indeed a need for this,\u201d said Advisory Board Chairman\u00a0 Jill Crow in opening the dedication ceremony. \u201cBecause of all of you, dreams do come true.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With a snip of the red ribbon, officials open the Salvation Army's new James D. Amos shelter<\/p><\/div>\n

Kentucky\/Tennessee Division Commander John Needham, standing in sunny but near-freezing, windy air, said it \u201cfitting that we stand here in the cold to dedicate a place of respite for the weary and the homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clarksville Mayor John E. Piper and Montgomery County Mayor Carolyn Bowers\u00a0 each spoke briefly, mentioning that both city and county each contributed $100,000 toward the cost of the shelter.<\/p>\n

The homeless shelter is \u201cPhase 1\u2033 of the Salvation Army\u2019s plan for the Kraft Street campus. Phase 2 will be the construction of a combined chapel, office and classrooms on the lot immediately fronting the shelter, a space currently topped with fresh sod to create a spacious lawn.<\/p>\n

Inside, guests were shown well lit rooms that will accommodate up to 24 men, 18 women, and four families of up to five members each. In each of these rooms, colorful patchwork quilts covered the beds; each of 55 quilts were made by Jo Cameron, who according to reports, stitched \u201ca quilt a day.\u201d\u00a0 One of the quilts in the men\u2019s\u00a0 hall was a beautifully blended array of creme, brown and gold, with one of the chosen fabrics a subtle print of angels, apropos for the guardianship the shelter will afford its needy occupants.<\/p>\n

In the dining area, visitors could view photos and a slide presentation documenting shelter construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Salvation Army officially opened the doors to its new $500,000 Kraft Street Shelter on Sunday in a ribbon-cutting ceremony that also named the facility after its volunteer contractor, James D. Amos. Amos, in a very brief statement, said he saw the need for the building, but \u201cGod was the power\u201d in getting the job […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[626,627,628,188,629,630,631,632,72],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-bj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}