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Ministries seek to help homeless under bridge, resource list compiled
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Kenny, a Marine Corps veteran, only began living at a Gainesville homeless camp in the past few months. Complications from heart failure, however, sent him to the intensive care unit last week.
As spring gives way to summer, the homeless camp beneath the Queen City Bridge in Gainesville becomes more crowded, a desolate place to rest for some and a trashed playpen for others along the so-called “tramp trail.” The new faces stand out among the old in the seasonal turnover. The young woman who might otherwise be a student if not caught on the lure of street drugs.