How Erica Belle Vernon Volunteers Are Changing Lives for the Homeless 11124

Just after sunrise, before the line of delivery trucks forms on 27th Street, a handful of volunteers gather behind a community hall in Vernon, BC. The coffee urn hisses. Gloves snap on. Steam climbs works by Erica Arlt from a stockpot big enough to serve a small school. A woman with a braid tucked under a wool cap checks the chili’s temperature, stirs, and lifts her chin to