New Outreach Specialist Dedicated to Helping Cape’s Homeless
HAC’s new outreach specialist Shannon Tracy with her colleague Deborah McDonnel’s dog Ida. Tracy moved to Cape Cod in September. Working with the homeless can be challenging, but HAC’s newest outreach specialist Shannon Tracy understands those difficulties are [...]
HAC Lends Expertise as Falmouth Takes Steps to Help Its Homeless
HAC CEO Rick Presbrey (left) with Paul Rifkin of Falmouth. […]
Activities Director Hired for NOAH Shelter
When HAC first opened the Day Center at NOAH last May, it looked to Lonnie Daniels to assist the nonprofit as it began this new endeavor. […]
NOAH Meal Volunteers Fill Clients With Hope
HAC’s Darrell Thomas (middle right) talks to the volunteers that serve meals at the NOAH Shelter. Whenever an individual comes to the NOAH Shelter in Hyannis, they have experienced serious trauma. […]
Homelessness on Cape Cod: One Family’s Story
There are many ways to celebrate a birthday, but living at a campground with three children is probably not the way 30-year-old Amanda* envisioned the transition to 31 would occur. […]
11th Annual Shelter Cape Cod Telethon a Success
WCAI’s Sean Corcoran sings “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” with several students from the Nathaniel H. Wixon Innovation School. During the first hour of the 11th Annual Shelter Cape Cod Telethon, State Representative Timothy Madden made his way onto the festively [...]
Dennis Fifth Grader Raises Funds for NOAH Shelter
Glen Baker collected donations at the Stop & Shop in South Yarmouth. In many ways Glen Baker is your average fifth grader. He plays football and baseball and enjoys hanging out with his friends at the Nathaniel H. Wixon Innovation [...]
Toy Run Brings Holiday Cheer to Families in Shelter
The calendar said November 2, but the light snow falling on the ground and cold winter breeze made it seem more like December 25. […]
St. Pius School Students Show Compassion for the Cape’s Homeless
At the St. Pius X School in Yarmouth, students have set some lofty career goals. One wants to be an actress. Another wants to be an author. […]
State Backing Bolsters NOAH Day Center
Aaron Gornstein addresses the crowd. In July – the same week that the 22nd Annual Bob Murray Housing with Love Walk was being held – the state threw its support behind the day center at NOAH and the timing could [...]
Volunteering at NOAH Shelter Puts Life Into Perspective
Ron Winner (left) of Shepley Wood Products talks to HAC’s Deanna Bussiere as she slices bread in the kitchen of the NOAH Shelter. On the final day of March a light snow fell on Hyannis, proof that Mother Nature was [...]
HAC Opens NOAH Day Center
NOAH Shelter Director Greg Bar talks with Rick Presbrey, CEO of HAC, and Michael Sweeney, HAC’s vice president of administration and finance, at the opening of the day center. “The place is booming,” HAC CEO Rick Presbrey said to Michael [...]
Dodgeball Tournament Raises Funds for NOAH
The team that won Pope John Paul II High School’s annual dodgeball tournament this year: Coleman Fenton (from left, holding the ball), Michael Young, Graham Shopshire (holding the trophy), Blake Waters, Kevin Marsh and Matt Soucie with honor society advisor [...]
Help Prevent Homelessness by Dining at the 99 Restaurant
This Thursday the 99 Restaurant in West Yarmouth has kindly offered to donate 15 percent of your check to the Dennis-Yarmouth Ecumenical Council to Prevent Homelessness (DYECH). […]
Rick Presbrey’s Editorial: What Gorilla?
Sometime within the past year someone sent me an email with one of those visually deceptive tests. The challenge was to count the number of times three people in white shirts passed a ball back and forth during the video. [...]
Finding a Home on Cape Cod Thanks to the NOAH Shelter
Sit down with Tracey Dalton for even a minute and you will encounter someone who is largely positive, and considers herself blessed. “I’ve never been happier in my entire life,” she says honestly. […]
Making Connections at NOAH Shelter
“A minimal amount of human contact can change a life,” said Greg Bar, manager of HAC’s NOAH Shelter, about a new volunteer project at NOAH Shelter. One night Bill Dado had a dream he was working with the homeless in [...]