Courtesy photo Kathy Kelly works in her familiar place, behind the front desk at the Sleep Inn & Suites in Acme.
ACME – Choice Hotels International has named the manager of a local hotel one of its 2014 “Community Heroes” for working to put local hotels in the front lines of helping homeless families.
Kathy Kelly, general manager at the Sleep Inn & Suites in Acme, was recognized for enlisting her own property and several others in a lodging voucher program for families who need emergency shelter.
“We can’t deny the fact that we have homeless people in our community, or that the face of homelessness has changed in recent years,” she said. “This could easily happen to any one of us. But we in the hospitality industry have a vehicle that can put this issue to bed in our community. And really, hospitality is synonymous with helping people.”
The idea began last winter, on a bitterly cold New Year’s Eve. Kelly was volunteering at a local crisis hotline when she received a call from a homeless mother who was nearly out of gas and needed a place for herself and her two children. All the town’s usual homeless shelters were either full or couldn’t accept families with children.
Kathy Kelly, general manager at the Sleep Inn & Suites in Acme, was recognized for enlisting her own property and several others in a lodging voucher program for families who need emergency shelter.
“We can’t deny the fact that we have homeless people in our community, or that the face of homelessness has changed in recent years,” she said. “This could easily happen to any one of us. But we in the hospitality industry have a vehicle that can put this issue to bed in our community. And really, hospitality is synonymous with helping people.”
The idea began last winter, on a bitterly cold New Year’s Eve. Kelly was volunteering at a local crisis hotline when she received a call from a homeless mother who was nearly out of gas and needed a place for herself and her two children. All the town’s usual homeless shelters were either full or couldn’t accept families with children.
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