If you're a good cook and would like to share your skills, there's a wonderful volunteer opportunity available at Homeward Bound. Even if you're not good at cooking, volunteer to help and you'll probably pick up some tips. Either way, you'll learn some very valuable life lessons.
An event designed to help the community learn more about services available to those in need is this Friday (July 22) and Saturday (July 23) in Grand Junction.
20-year-old Taylor Bradley is a mass communications student at Colorado Mesa University. She has found a way to not only communicate, but help the homeless in Grand Junction.
If a homeless person approached you, your first reaction would be they are going to ask for money. How would you react if they offered to give you money instead?
This man decided to take a restaurant's never ending pasta offer one step further by feeding not just himself, but several others including some homeless people.
We recently published a story about people who didn't recognize their 'homeless' relatives. Now, a French tourist sees a homeless man digging through the trash, offers him her leftover pizza and fails to realize he's actor Richard Gere.
How much do you know about homeless people in Grand Junction? Do you look away and ignore them? Would you even notice if one of the homeless was a relative?