Angel Resource Connection (ARC) is leading a local relief effort to support neighbors affected by delayed or partial SNAP/Basic Food benefits and ongoing food insecurity. ARC has invited two long-time Granite Falls restaurants — Playa Bonita and Teriyaki Wok — to join forces to provide free, pre-boxed meals to families and individuals in need.
• Playa Bonita is preparing 50 boxed meals featuring enchiladas and burritos (beef and chicken) with rice and beans.
• Teriyaki Wok is offering Chef Alex Petrakopoulos’s vegetable and tofu stir-fry, a local favorite.
Angel Resource Connection volunteers will be there to welcome neighbors and hand out meals with love..
 Picnic table area next to IGA, Granite Falls
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It is both impractical and costly to criminalize homelessness. Such an approach fails to address the underlying issue of lack of housing and instead perpetuates the problem while increasing the risk of mental illness and depression.
Fines and jail time only serve to push the homeless further into poverty, as they are unable to pay the fines and end up with warrants that make it difficult to find employment or housing. Rather than criminalizing homelessness, we should focus on building trust and allowing nonprofits to serve the homeless without restrictions.
As a dedicated nonprofit with a mission to provide housing for the homeless, we believe in fostering a compassionate and inclusive community. Let's work together as a city to address this human rights issue and choose housing over handcuffs for the most vulnerable among us.
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