The new year for the Hope Center doesn’t look good, its leaders say.
The center at 12th Avenue and Kalmia Street, houses and helps women and children in crisis, many of whom are escaping domestic violence situations.
It is short in the areas for which it relies most on the public – donations, volunteers and supplies, they say.
Established in 1990 by Sharon Pryor and Esther Bennett, the Hope Center is Oregon’s longest-running homeless shelter…