On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

This is a thing now in the States?

This question prompted by e-mails from Paypal and the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.

This is officially a thing in Ottawa now.

https://www.matthewhouseottawa.org/furniture-bank

They're going to need to set up branches in several parts of the city, I suspect.

For the Ottawans: You heard the news about Beth Shalom today?

It came as a bit of a shock to see the picture accompanying it on my cbc_ottawa news feed tonight. I recognized that building, and while some one among you might have pointed it out to me as such, I forgot the connection until tonight.

You see, I visit that place a few times a year. Usually, it's because I'm hoping to find one thing or another I've managed to lose in the transit system. Most often, it's an umbrella. Sometimes, it's been my bus pass. Once, a favourite toque: done up with the classic two-tone-blue Hockey Night in Canada colours and stick 'n' puck "roundel" logo that those of us of a certain age remember from our own childhoods.

Never did get that toque back. Maybe I looked in the wrong place?

Anyway, the building's been showing a bit of wear and tear. I was hoping for a restoration, but it looks from the CBC coverage in the link that such is not going to be in the cards. A cause for some sadness, as are the sequelae that look to be arising for local charity groups that have been neighbours to OC Transpo Lost and Found and tenants to the shul.

I feel as if I might be of some help in solving this, but...I don't know how.

No, I'm not a member of the congregation. Not even sure I have any ancestry to speak of. Doesn't mean that it matters any less, though.

Over to you, friends and neighbours.