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Photos: Downtown ambassador program employs people who have experienced homelessness
Sep. 23, 2019 8:23 pm
Ambassadors engage with downtown dwellers and according to officials have succeeded in creating a cleaner, calmer downtown
Ambassador Tim Yuengel looks off into the distance as he waits out a rain storm under cover out front of the Cedar Rapids Public Library on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. Tim and his wife, Denise, were homeless for about three years until coming back in off the street in February of this year. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Ambassador Michael Rundle helps to diffuse an altercation between a woman and man out front of the Cedar Rapids Public Library on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Ambassadors Tim, left, and Denise Yuengel talk with a member of the homeless community at Greene Square Park in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Ambassador Denise Yuengel sorts through a bag of clothes found left on a bench at Green Square Park in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. Yuengel says that she often finds discarded clothes and collects what is salvageable to be donated whenever she's working a shift. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Willis Dady support services director Emily Zimmon talks with ambassador Crystal Hall at Green Square Park in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Terri Domer of Cedar Rapids turns to talk with ambassador Tim Yuengel out front of the Cedar Rapids Public Library on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Ambassador Denise Yuengel sorts through a bag of clothes found left on a bench at Green Square Park in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Ambassador Tim Yuengel walks his bike along with his wife, Denise, across the street from the Cedar Rapids Public Library to Green Square Park to continue his ambassador shift on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Ambassador Tim Yuengel looks out toward Green Square Park from the Cedar Rapids Public Library while waiting out a rain storm on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Ambassador Denise Yuengel looks for trash to pick up at Green Square Park in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. Yuengel says she usually starts her shift by picking up the park if it needs it. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
Rain falls around two parked bikes out front of the Cedar Rapids Public Library on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)
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