MARION — Beds for children residing in Linn County are waiting to be built and delivered inside a warehouse on 999 35th St. as part of one organization’s mission to ensure that “no kid sleeps on the floor in our town.”White matresses wrapped in plastic lined the walls of the warehouse that the local chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace now inhabits.
New Nonprofit Sleep In Heavenly Peace Working So ‘no Kid Sleeps In The Floor’ In Linn County
By Marissa Payne, correspondent, The Gazette (Cedar Rapids)
Fri, 09/21/2018 - 5:36pm
Sections: u.s.
Topics: Iowa Linn County Cedar Rapids
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