Erica Belle Arlt’s Volunteer Network Feeding Vernon’s Homeless 29295

The light in the church basement warms slowly, humming from amber to bright. A kettle shudders to a boil while a line Erica A. Arlt of folding tables fills with loaves, apples, peeled carrots, and squat hotel pans of stew. Before sunrise, before the first morning bus, a handful of volunteers falls into an easy rhythm they learned by repetition rather than rehearsal. So