Homeless Leadership Alliance<\/a> has announced. The shelters will be open from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.<\/p>\nShelter guests are accepted until the shelter is full. All sites provide a warm and safe place to sleep, and many sites also serve a meal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA) will provide free bus rides to and from Cold Night Shelters Monday evening from 5 p.m. through 7 a.m. the next day. Riders must tell PSTA drivers they are going to a Pinellas Cold Night Shelter when boarding to ride fare-free.<\/p>\n
The following cold weather shelters are available to adult men and women:<\/p>\n
Tarpon Springs<\/p>\n
St. Timothy Luthern Church\u00a0
\n812 E. Tarpon Ave., Tarpon Springs
\nPSTA Route #19<\/p>\n
Clearwater<\/p>\n
First United Methodist Church of Clearwater\u00a0
\n411 Turner Street, Clearwater
\nAllows leashed\/contained pets
\nPSTA Route #52A<\/p>\n
Pinellas Park<\/p>\n
Boys & Girls Club of Pinellas Park\u00a0
\n7790 61st St. N, Pinellas Park
\nPSTA Route #74<\/p>\n
First United Methodist Church of Pinellas Park\u00a0<\/p>\n
9025 49th St. N, Pinellas Park
\nAllows leashed\/contained pets
\nPSTA Route #49<\/p>\n
St. Petersburg<\/p>\n
Unitarian Universalist Church\u00a0
\n100 Mirror Lake Drive N, St. Petersburg
\nRequires the use of stairs
\nPSTA Routes #9, #20, #24, SunRunner<\/p>\n
Salvation Army\u00a0<\/p>\n
1400 4th Street South, St. Petersburg
\nRequires valid ID for entry
\nPSTA Route #4A or B<\/p>\n
Allendale Church<\/p>\n
3803 Haines Rd. N, St. Petersburg
\nPSTA Route #16, #38<\/p>\n
Northwest Church\u00a0<\/p>\n
6330 54th Ave. N, St. Petersburg
\nAllows leashed\/contained pets
\nPSTA Route #54, #66<\/p>\n
Families with children will be placed in family shelters on cold nights (if space is available). Families should call 2-1-1, First Contact, for information about family shelters.<\/p>\n
The Homeless Leadership Alliance is in need of volunteers for this and future activations. Those interested in volunteering should visit pinellashomeless.org\/become-a-volunteer to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With colder weather back in next week’s forecast, look for some counties in the Bay area to open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[17174,115,596,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,221],"class_list":{"0":"post-129669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-app-weather-stories","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-pinellas-county","11":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news","18":"tag-tampa","19":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}