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Friday, December 19, 2008

Warming And Boxing

Posted by Matt Davis on Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:04 PM

I went on a tour of the city's homeless warming centers last night. More in the paper next week, but in the mean time I thought you might enjoy these two pictures. First, this is the family warming center at NE 81st and Clackamas, waiting for its clients to arrive...

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Second, the building used to house a bridge club, a print shop, and in the basement, a boxing gym. On the wall downstairs were scrawled the names of some of the boxers: Matt "lilsuave" Norwich; Pierre "Pinky" Velasquez; Trent "The Sandman" Standing; Ryan "The lilking" Trent...

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Matt "the ??????" Davis


Merc staff encouraged to fill in the blanks.
Posted by Cory G on December 19, 2008 at 12:10 PM · Report
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Based on their handwriting, I would say the "Sandman" was the toughest cat to walk those halls.
Posted by Will Radik on December 19, 2008 at 2:11 PM · Report
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A homeless boxing league would be awesome...
Posted by Freshmaker on December 19, 2008 at 2:21 PM · Report
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BUMFIGHTS!
Posted by el cubano on December 19, 2008 at 4:39 PM · Report

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