Volunteer orientation set: Warming shelter opens at Pullman city hall site

Nathan Weller, co-coordinator and Pullman City Council member, has announced that the Pullman Warming Center will have a Volunteer Orientation Jan. 7 at 7 p.m. before the warming center’s reopening in the basement of the new Pullman City Hall building, the former Encounter Ministries, at 190 SE Crestview.

The shelter will open from 8 p.m. until 6 a.m. on nights with temperatures below 30 degrees Fahrenheit. The warming shelter is a temporary emergency shelter for homeless persons to have a safe and warm place to go to in the extreme cold weather of the season.

The Pullman warming shelter provi...