Much is talked about Anderson shelters but a lot less about Morrison shelters and they were a far more sensible idea. Every organisation was called in to do some war effort and the Boy Scouts were ...

Forty-one years ago, the Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC) opened a large disaster-style homeless shelter in the former ballrooms of the Morrison Hotel in downtown Seattle. Every single night ...

How would you survive in a war-torn country, where bombs could potentially fall from the sky with only very short notice? And what if the bomb in question were The Bomb — a nuclear weapon? This ...

How would you survive in a war-torn country, where bombs could potentially fall from the sky with only very short notice? And what if the bomb in question were The Bomb — a nuclear weapon? This ...

This column is the first in an expected series on YorkCounty Shelter Programs, which has been a part of the Alfred Community since 1979. This series will detail how the organization has evolved over ...