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Guernsey is largely responsible for the existence of the 66 Winthrop St. Shelter, which opened last week without a city permit or compliance to many city zoning and health regulations. He sees the opening of the spot--just one block from four River Houses--as "stepping into a breach" to fill a need for shelter which the city has ignored...
...shelter is temporary, designed to provide the homeless of Harvard Square with a place to sleep indoors until the cold weather ends. It is scheduled to close on April 17. Conveniently, the city of Cambridge has decided not to take action against the shelter for 60 days, Guernsey says. He calls it "a nice compromise...
Guernsey says he saw the need for the shelter when he started working last fall as an intern for the Harvard Square Churches Meal Program--which serves needy patrons a hot meal at Christ church on Garden St. Required to do some supervised fieldwork for his ministerial program at the Divinity School, Guernsey elected to help people entering the program who needed other social services...
Guernsey and Frederick Reisz, pastor of the church where the shelter is, worked together to make Guernsey's proposal of a shelter a reality. Reisz presented the idea before the church committee, which gave its permission to open the shelter Since then, the shelter has received donations of bedding, food, and time from the 40 to 60 people who have expressed interest in staffing the shelter...
...action at the shelter, Guernsey is easy-going, often talking and joking with the "clients." He treats them with respect, which they return. From the start, Guernsey involved street people in the organization of the shelter. They helped to make up its rules...