Rock County homeless count serves as eye-opener
JANESVILLE — All my life, I’ve been familiar with the long stretch of parking lots and big box stores that are Janesville’s Milton Avenue.
But that stretch looks a lot longer at 3 a.m. when it’s bitter cold and all you can think is, “What if we find someone in the next car? What if someone is hiding behind that Dumpster?”

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A cold night didn't stop volunteers from scouring Rock County for homeless people. Janesville Gazette reporter Ann Marie Ames was out with the volunteers. Kyle Geissler reports. You can read more in Friday's Janesville Gazette.

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But at the time, he felt he had no choice. He was homeless and jobless in Chicago, estranged from his family with nowhere to go. He felt like no one cared about him.

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Everything a local homeless man owns sits on a chair next to his bed at the GIFTS homeless shelter at the First Baptist Church in Janesville.

November 18 NEWS

Homeless Count
In Rock County

The Summer Youth Program employes approximately 30 youth in the Beloit Community. On the job training is provided while they revitalize and rehab existing homes in the Merrill Community, Beloit.