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Tuesday 9 January 2018
California officials move to shut big homeless riverbed camp
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — In this Sept. 14, 2017 photo, a cyclist passes the row of tents and tarps along the Santa Ana riverbed caused in part by soaring
Officials in Southern Cali- housing costs, rock-bottom
fornia’s Orange County near Angel Stadium in Anaheim, Calif. Orange County officials are putting hundreds of homeless vacancy rates and a roar-
on Monday put hundreds ing economy.
of homeless camped out camped out along the dusty riverbed near Angel Stadium on notice: they have to move out Homeless advocates said
along a dusty riverbed near Orange County’s decision
a baseball stadium on no- starting in two weeks. Formal notices were posted at the encampment on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, will simply shuffle people
tice that they must move elsewhere due to a lack
starting in two weeks. said Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the county sheriff’s department. of available housing and
Formal notices were post- drive the homeless to sleep
ed at the encampment (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) in parks and on sidewalks.
near the stadium of the Neighbors of the riverbed
Los Angeles Angels team, up in recent years on the reported over the last few where tens of thousands have been urging officials
said Carrie Braun, a spokes- to shut down the encamp-
woman for the county sher- trail along the Santa Ana months on a homeless crisis of people are sleeping on ment and restore the trail
iff’s department. for biking and hiking.
Deputies will give tent- River. of unprecedented propor- the streets from Seattle to Braun said the area will
dwellers reasonable time to be entirely closed for up
move and the county will The Associated Press has tions on the West Coast, San Diego. The problem is to three months. Once it
provide transportation to reopens, she said depu-
area shelters and storage ties will regularly patrol the
for personal belongings, area to prevent overnight
she said. The encampment camping.
is a two-mile (3.2 kilometer) Orange County last sum-
stretch of tents and tarps mer hired a nonprofit group
surrounded by trash on a to provide case manage-
dusty patch of land near ment services to those
a bike trail where cyclists living in the then-rough-
zoom by. “The goal is to get ly 400 person encamp-
people out of there and re- ment. Since then, officials
store it to a flood control have said they eventually
channel,” Braun said. planned to close down the
The encampment sprang encampment.q
New Hampshire winner of $559M Powerball jackpot a mystery
MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) — tion’s eighth-largest lottery Sam Safa, of Merrimack, N.H., owner of Reeds Ferry Market, after the July drawing, law-
No one has come forward jackpot. The winner has a stands outside the convenience store in Merrimack. yers for the family’s new
yet to claim the lone Pow- year to claim the prize from trust claimed the prize and
erball ticket sold in New the draw date. But even (AP Photo/Steven Senne) announced the family was
Hampshire that matched after someone claims the donating $100,000 to char-
all six numbers for a $559.7 prize, it’s possible that the ity. “They’re going to do
million jackpot, lottery offi- winner may remain anony- great things with it,” attor-
cials said Monday. mous. New Hampshire, like ney William Shaheen said
The winning Powerball a handful of other states, at the time. The family has
numbers drawn Saturday lets winners claim the prize remained anonymous.
night were 12-29-30-33-61 through trusts. By disclos- Saturday’s winning ticket
and Powerball 26. ing the name of the trust was sold at the Reeds Fer-
New Hampshire Lottery only, they can shield their ry Market in Merrimack,
spokeswoman Maura Mc- identity. That’s what hap- about 25 miles (40 kilome-
Cann said it was “all quiet” pened in 2016, when a ters) south of Concord. The
as of Monday morning. No New Hampshire family won store will receive a $75,000
one had presented the a $487 million Powerball bonus for selling the win-
ticket yet to claim the na- jackpot. About six weeks ning ticket. q
