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LISTEN IN: Hey, Salem, your help is needed to get homeless people out of freezing temps

AN ENGAGING CONVERSATION: Reporter Ardeshir Tabrizian explains the efforts underway to get people off the streets and into warm shelters as temperatures drop below freezing. Volunteers can help several ways, as he explained in his original story is HERE. He also discusses why plans to set up a much-needed mobile crisis unit is going to be delayed, as he reported HERE. And how an attack on a Ukranian native in Salem led to a bias charge. That story is HERE.

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