Warming center will open tonight

Tue., Nov. 3, 2015

By Nina Culver nculver47@gmail.com

The Salvation Army will opening its warming center for the first time this season tonight.

The City of Spokane provides funding to open a warming center anytime the temperature is forecast to drop below 32 degrees, which is expected to happen tonight.

The center will be open from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. at the Salvation Army at 222 E. Indiana. It is open to single men and women as well as families with children.

Anyone who would like to volunteer for a warming center shift or donate winter clothes and blankets is asked to call (509) 325-6810.

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