Executive Director Tonya Horn collects one of the center's bedding boxes for guests at the Flathead Warming Center in Kalispell on Wednesday, Feb. 1. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
February 1, 2023
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Residents pack Kalispell City Hall to debate fate of Flathead Warming Center
Owing to incidents of loitering, trespassing and a general uneasiness since the opening of the nearby Flathead Warming Center in 2021, Michelle Davey said her North Meridian Road employer installed a panic button in the front office earlier this year.
A night at the Warming Center
Most nights, the Kalispell shelter fills up and has to turn people away to fend for themselves.
The true cost of homelessness
As local governments and residents grapple with the Flathead Valley’s rise in homelessness, discussions about the public and private costs of addressing the problem have come into the forefront.