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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: December 2, 2014
Editor's note: This is the first in an Advent devotional series based on Isaiah 61:1-3. Some of the posts in this series were first published as part of UGM Executive Director Phil Altmeyer's Heart to Heart column in the Mission News. We hope you...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: November 14, 2014
Who is My Brother? By Barbara Comito Ron, UGM's Day Room Manager, has been getting his hair cut at Dan's Barber Shop by Jody for about eight years....
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: November 6, 2014
Feeding the Hungry Series Meet Tod Randall, UGM Warehouse Manager Tod Randall is a logistics guy. He’s all about moving information or product from...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: November 5, 2014
Feeding the Hungry Series Meet Derek Mobley Derek Mobley could be working with lobster and filet mignon on a daily basis as a cook at the Spokane...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: October 21, 2014
5 tips on how to be a discriminating giver Not many of us have piles of money lying around just waiting for the next good cause. And our time is as...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: October 1, 2014
A little over a year ago, Helen, 57, was living on the streets of Coeur d’Alene.
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: September 29, 2014
Precariously Housed* By Barbara Comito While working on the October issue of Mission News, I visited Fresh Start, a drop-in center for the homeless...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: September 26, 2014
Amanda’s struggle to overcome relationship addiction Editor’s Note: We interviewed Amanda, 23, one year ago when she lived at the UGM Crisis Shelter...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: September 3, 2014
Editor's Note: Last week the entire Union Gospel Mission staff met at UGM Camp for a time of bonding, renewal and training. The focus of the two-day...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: August 20, 2014
Get to know Curt Woodard: Salesman at UGM Motors If you browse the sales lot at Union Gospel Mission Motors, there’s a good chance you’ll be greeted...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: August 13, 2014
“Give Real Change” Photo credit: daytondailynews.com It is hard not to be moved by a thin, weathered-looking man standing on the corner in crusty...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: August 4, 2014
Editor's note, March 2017: Since this was posted in 2014, the Crisis Shelter has moved to a beautiful, larger facility at 1515 E Illinois. Anne is...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: July 22, 2014
MEET LORI BRADLEY Children's Program Coordinator at Anna Ogden Hall Who is “Lori Bradley” outside of her job? Much the same as Lori Bradley in her...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: June 20, 2014
The Living, Breathing Story By Barbara Comito, UGM writer Sometimes I love my job. Tuesday night was one of those times. Twenty-five men and women...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: June 3, 2014
This is the second of a 2-part interview with Mental health Counselor Dave Edwards on how addiction affects all our lives. The first part, How do you...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: May 29, 2014
"Aged to Perfection" by Hannah Jo Hannah Jo, 2013 camp intern, read this letter yesterday at Dennis Roach's retirement celebration. Dennis has been...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: May 20, 2014
Dennis Roach: 40 years of working with young people Youth Outreach Director Dennis Roach is retiring at the end of June after 13 years with the Union...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: May 1, 2014
Addiction is so much bigger than drugs & alcohol. In this interview, Dave Edwards, a Spokane mental health professional and former UGM counselor,...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 18, 2014
A Junkie No More Photo by Robert Peterson Eddie Collins was the subject of my first newsletter feature when I came to UGM in January 2008. He had...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: April 1, 2014
This is the second of two posts on UGM’s self-evaluation process. The first, “The courage to ask why I do what I do” explains how the process plays...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 26, 2014
Change requires courage. Often when I forget why I am here – why I am writing yet another newsletter story, wracking my brain for a bit of Facebook...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 14, 2014
Reason #1: Shari Griffin Shari, 50, just finished the first four phases of the LIFE Recovery program at the UGM Center for Women & Children in Coeur...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: March 6, 2014
“Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.”―...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 21, 2014
Just say no. Not even once. DARE to keep kids off drugs and alcohol. The problem with these anti-drug slogans is twofold: 1) their simplicity belies...
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Barbara Comito, former marketing director: February 18, 2014
(This article was posted in 2014 and updated in 2019.) UGM: the Whole Person Approach In its quest to break – not perpetuate – the cycle of...
