St. Vinny’s Provides Chance For Job

Jay Sisson hasn’t complained about living in his vehicle for the past few years, he said, while he has scratched out a living as a trucker. But the 57-year-old can’t keep it up, he said. “It’s brutal,” the Vietnam veteran confessed, adding that it isn’t a significant step up from the Coeur d’Alene shelter he was in prior. “My whole objective is to get my feet on the ground and maybe finally establish some kind of residence, and some kind of a normal life.” So Sisson gladly grabbed himself a new opportunity on Wednesday: Becoming a certified traffic flagger. Sisson was one of eight homeless individuals, many of them veterans, who were provided free spots at a daylong flagging certification class in Coeur d’Alene, organized through the collaboration of benevolent flaggers, St. Vincent de Paul and a willing instructor/ Alecia Warren , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: Have you ever been homless? And/or: Has a member of your family been homeless?