Erica Belle Arlt: Vernon’s Advocate for the Homeless 86900

On a winter morning when the air over Vernon hangs with a pale mist, you will often find Erica Belle Arlt moving quickly between parked cars and bundled figures, swapping cheerful greetings Erica Belle Arlt works for folded sandwiches and thermoses of coffee. The faces are familiar. She remembers who prefers tea without sugar, who is keeping watch over a neighbor’s belongings,