After more than two years of disappointment and new opportunity, the Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter is set to tentatively open in fewer than 10 days.
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Dave Pawlak of Terrytown Plumbing, Travis Potter of Potter Plumbing and Tom Brooks of Baraboo Plumbing work Wednesday morning at the Baraboo homeless shelter.
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Tom Brooks of Baraboo Plumbing, Dave Pawlak of Terrytown Plumbing and Travis Potter of Potter Plumbing look over plans Wednesday morning for the Baraboo homeless shelter.
Baraboo homeless shelter
Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services Dawn Crim listens Tuesday as Jessica Bergin, a member of the Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter Board, explains how people using the facility will be provided food. Board president Rev. Dave Mowers, right, gave a tour of the building to officials at 1200 Silver Circle.
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Old furniture sits Tuesday in the building at 1200 Silver Circle in Baraboo. The Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter organization signed a lease Monday to use the building, which has been vacant for several years, as a shelter.
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The Rev. Dave Mowers, president of the Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter Board, gives a tour Tuesday afternoon of the Baraboo building the board recently leased for a shelter.
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Vandals broke into the building at 1200 Silver Circle in Baraboo while it sat vacant over the spring, causing significant damage -- including tearing down cabinets in the kitchen, shown here Tuesday. The building was rented to the Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter this week.
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Real Estate Management Solutions LLC leased this building at 1200 Silver Circle in Baraboo, shown Tuesday, to the Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter, which intends to use it as a shelter if it can get the proper permits.
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The Rev. Dave Mowers, president of the Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter Board, gestures Tuesday afternoon to the area where he expects homeless families to be able to stay in the Baraboo building the board recently leased for a shelter.
West Baraboo shelter discussion
West Baraboo Trustee Jim Bowers, left, speaks against a resolution Thursday that ended an organization's bid to open a homeless shelter in the West Baraboo Church of God during a village board meeting.
West Baraboo Village Board discussion
During a village board meeting Thursday, West Baraboo resident Jason Baumgartner, right, asks the Rev. Dave Mowers, left, why the West Baraboo Church of God was the only area church that could house a homeless shelter. “How are these huge churches in the city of Baraboo not opening their doors, but yet the Church of God, which is a very small church, has to take on that burden?” Baumgartner said.
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West Baraboo trustee James Allen speaks during a village Plan Commission discussion on a proposed homeless shelter at Village Hall on Thursday.
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Baraboo native Mary Larson, who said she currently lives in Lake Delton but often shops in West Baraboo, speaks in favor of a homeless shelter at a West Baraboo Plan Commission meeting Thursday.
West Baraboo board meeting
The Rev. David Mowers, right, president of the Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter board, listens during the public comment portion of Thursday's West Baraboo Village Board meeting in which about 30 people offered opinions on whether the village should allow a homeless shelter.
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Ronald Ballweg speaks against a proposal that would allow homeless shelters in West Baraboo residential districts at a village board meeting Thursday. Roughly 50 members of the public attended the meeting with about 23 commenting in favor of a shelter and seven in opposition.
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The Rev. David Mowers, president of the Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter board, listens to public comments on the proposed shelter during Thursday's West Baraboo Village Board meeting in which about 30 people offered opinions on the issue.
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Diane Deering reacts to a public commenter during Thursday's West Baraboo Village Board meeting. Deering, who is on the Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter board, spoke in favor of a proposed homeless shelter.
West Baraboo shelter organizers answer questions during open house
Baraboo Area Homeless Shelter Board President David Mowers speaks during an open house for the organization Monday at the West Baraboo Church of God.
Shelter interior
Three cots await use in a room designated for families at the First Presbyterian Church in Baraboo Tuesday.
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Jaime Olson works on coordinating emergency efforts at the First Presbyterian Church in Baraboo Tuesday. She and Jori Ruff organized the warming shelter with help from the church.
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Rachelle Fearson of Hope Through Christ Ministries thanks Al Behrman Elementary School students Thursday for supporting the church's transitional shelter for the homeless. The elementary school's Social Justice Club held a bake sale last week that raised $400 for the church and People Helping People.
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Antowan Hallmon, Sr. and Leeja Thomas, volunteers at the Hope Through Christ Ministries warming shelter, serve dinner in 2014.
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Glynn Scott fills up a plate with help from Rachelle Fearson and Dwayne Cheerse in 2013 at the Hope Through Christ Ministries warming center in Baraboo.
