DROP A QUARTER IN THE DRUM, SAVE ANOTHER HOMELESS BUM–UPDATED

The next time you go to Springfield, you can drop a couple of quarters into a red parking meter and help a homeless person smell sweeter.  City officials are putting up two dozen used parking meters,  freshly painted red, to collect donations for the homeless.  Fifty cents buys a shower, a dollar buys a meal, and so on.  The program is modeled after one in Denver that really cut down on downtown panhandling.  Springfield hopes businesses will ‘sponsor’ more meters to make the program grow.

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