Fairfax County Registers Chronically Homeless
Volunteers are visiting homeless at camp sites this week at the crack of dawn.
(Editor's Note: In cased you missed it, earlier this week hundreds of volunteers fanned out across Fairfax County to get locations and health information from the homeless population. Here's our story, which was published on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013) "Boy, when you guys said 6 a.m., you weren't kidding," said Chris P. from behind his plywood front door at a campsite along Eisenhower Avenue near the border of the City of Alexandria and Fairfax County. There was a harvest moon Monday morning, and it was cold, about 32 degrees, and dark. Five Fairfax County volunteers walked into Chris's campsite near Interstate 495 and Eisenhower Avenue with flashlights, hot coffee and clipboards. "Good morning! Hello!" said volunteer Joe Drach as he walked …
