Room at the Inn Warming Center receives bunk beds

Marquette, Michigan (WLUC)-After at least two years of waiting, the rooms in the Inn Warming Center finally have a finishing touch. Inmates, high school students and Building Trades staff at Marquette Branch prison placed bunk beds on the top floor of the shelter.

Hotel executive director Nick Emmendorfer's room said it was a blessing to see the community unite to help solve this problem.

Emmendorfer said: "Not only do we provide a homeless shelter for the most disadvantaged in the community here, but we are also able to integrate students and projects and inmates in local prisons, and everyone gets together. Solve the problem. Homeless. It's amazing."

One of the students is Samantha Finch, a third-year student in Negaunee High School, who also participated in the CTE Middle School program. She, like many others, is very happy to be involved.

Finch said: "This is of great significance to being able to help people in need." "In minus 17 degrees, no one is worth going out on the street."

Wayne Thompson, the construction industry instructor at Marquette Branch Prison, is the one who put these beds together. He said the prisoners liked to piece together woodwork for the project and said they could use these skills to have a positive impact in the future.

Thompson said: "A better way than giving them some job skills, and then they can share them in the community."

Emmendorfer thanked everyone who made this project a reality.

He said: "I just want to thank all the members of Marquette for finally enabling us to achieve results. We need your continued support in the future."

With the new bunk beds, up to 30 homeless people will have the opportunity to sleep well in the Inn Room.