A warming center in Ashtabula that normally provides shelter for hundreds is currently closed.
Community Activist Ricky Turner runs the warming center which he says helps people in the city and county. Turner says if they only opened the warming center for a few hours to bring people in from the cold, they would be forced to put them back out into the elements at nightfall and he says that just doesn’t sit right with him.
Turner tells 19 News that the facility could normally accommodate up to about 100 people, and that doesn’t include the people who just stop in for a shower, to wash clothes, or grab something to eat.The Warming Center has survived in the past because of the generosity of landlord Jeff Spring and his wife who paid the bills, including all utilities.
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