‘Sheridan Community Shelter Dumps Truckloads of Donations in Landfill.’
As unlikely a headline as this might seem, this was the case at the Volunteers of America Sheridan Community Homeless Shelter last August.
I think everyone feels good that we have a homeless shelter in this community in northeast Wyoming. Naturally, such a place would tug at the heart of just about anyone. Many local people, businesses, groups and organizations donate items to the shelter.
People bring food, used clothes, sometimes new clothes, toys, books, bicycles, furniture, dishes, TVs and many other items. This is no surprise, coming from a responsive town with a strong sense of kinship and brotherhood.
What is a surprise, is that the shelter administration decided last August to load four dump-trucks full of donations in the Sheridan landfill. They threw away everything but cash.
The shelter uses a next-door building, an old non-functioning two-lane bowling alley on the Veterans Administration grounds, for storage. As can happen, this area became untidy.
Rather than organize; rather than the Volunteers of America seeking appropriate storage for the many donations given by good-hearted people; it was decided to chuck everything.
The shelter needs to apologize for literally trashing the goodwill of the people who support the needy among them.
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