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Loaves and Fishes - saving lives one room at a time

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published June 1, 2016 at 9:51 AM CDT
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Andrew Moe, 39 Superior. Although Moe moved out of the Dorothy Day House three years ago, he still visits every week. Moe wants to help more homeless people through volunteer work.
©Josie Fan
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Adrian Greene came to the Dorothy House pretty much everyday to cook. He would like to see the governemnt is going to take advantage of abandoned buildings and provide them to low income groups.
©Josie Fan
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Explaining break-out group topics to participants
©Josie Fan
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Loaves and Fishes member serving the free lunch during the 4th annual Housing for All Community Summit
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Opening speaker Jameson Danielson hugging his boss from work after he shared his homeless experience with participants
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Over 300 people in St. Louis County attended the 4th Annual Housing For All Community Summit May 26
©Josie Fan

In 2007, St. Louis County and the city of Duluth came up with a ten-year plan to end homelessness.

In October, the Homelessness in Minnesota survey found over 600 people with nowhere to live.

The Loaves and Fishes community and CHUM in Duluth organized the first Housing for All Summit; now a partnership of groups county-wide puts it on every year.  Our reporter Josie Fan attended the conference ... with a stop at Loaves and Fishes on the way.

Follow-up meetings will be held next week in Duluth and on the Range. You can learn more about the Summit, read reports and see photographs here:
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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