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(above) Clever doubled-edged prohibitive sign at front of Anglicare Food Barn in Elizabeth. One guest described the Barn as "a social place, a sanctuary...you wouldn't go there for the food...but it is getting better."

(above) Salisbury Uniting Church at 59 Park Terrace, Salisbury offer a free lunch and free vegetables every Wednesday without registration. Free monthly hampers can also be arranged if you have a Health Care Card with an address in the Salisbury area.

Another involuntary exit from WestCare homeless joint?

The 70-year-old non-drug using bicycle rider of whom Mark Arstall, 38, threw soup over in the WestCare dining room last February, and upon whom he spat upon and threatened with a dinner knife in the same dining room last week, believes that WestCare will soon kick him out.

The old man’s crime is reporting the incidents to police and to his friends in the homeless scene.
Late 30 April 2017

Vanessa’s apron pocket

Vanessa often takes the money directly for lunches served at WestCare. She puts the money in her apron pocket. Other workers put it directly into the money box.

There is no doubt Vanessa is an honest worker who serves the underclass, but for appearance sake she should put the money directly in the money box. That is the more professional approach.
Late 30 April 2017

Don’s thyroid

Veteran WestCare employee, Don, is also the caretaker of the Flinders Street Baptist Church. He’s always been an easygoing personality, but recently one might ask if he is beginning to lose control of his temper? He fell into a strange rage last week when the 70-year-old bike rider made a simple request of him.

He was also heard shouting at Demos Roussos who lives outside and tends to fall asleep during the day wherever he goes. Demos is the model of diplomacy, but can hardly walk due to swollen legs.

I wonder if Don’s thyroid gland is playing up. Those with faulty thyroids experience sudden weight gain and often slip into unprovoked rages. No one is saying this is Don’s problem, but it might be worth a visit to the WestCare nurse.

Conversely, his anger may have been a logical response to someone criticising his new boss, Stefano “Tic-Tac” Tocci, of whom Don apparently has an extremely high opinion. However, “Tic-Tac” is a mere shadow of WestCare veterans such as David Secomb and Ken Henderson.
Late 29 April2017

Drug Dealer gets new house

The Clued-up Drug Dealer has allegedly left the The Terrace apartment building on South Terrace, which is run by Unity Housing Company.

He has moved into his own unit, but it has not been disclosed whether he is renting from Unity or the Housing Trust.
The Clued-up Dealer is allegedly happy at the move and commutes to his business location near the Hutt Street Centre where he is routinely seen with his associate, Robyn the Junkie.
However, it is disquieting to others that people not using drugs remain living outside while drug dealers and addicts are given preference to cheap housing.
But all is not what it seems. By living in a separate unit, The Clued-up Drug Dealer has lost the anonymity of multiple dwellings within The Terrace apartment building. He is now more vulnerable to surveillance or attack from unknown parties.

Late 29 April 2017

Cos We Care

John from Cos We Care arrived at their free food distribution service in Fremont Park, Elizabeth with his right arm bandaged. He cut it while repairing burnt out wiring in the Cos We Care refrigerated van.

John has diabetes and therefore takes seriously even the slightest wound. He doesn’t want to end up like Mr Munster who had his lower leg chopped off or Piano Player Wayne who has lost three toes to diabetes.
Late 29 April 2017

Heather back at WestCare

Heather has returned from a short holiday and is cooking her usual excellent lunches including a recent roast lamb.

However, one client recently got angry with her and became even more enraged when she steadily held his gaze. Other clients shuffled him out of the area. One commentator said the reason for his anger was that Heather is “too nice”. She is certainly nothing like Brenda “Chainsaw” McCulloch from the Hutt Street Centre who is also a good cook, but is not “too nice”.
Late 29 April 2017

Vomit

A woman in the Hutt Street welfare scene allegedly eats generously of free food then runs into the bushes to vomit the contents of her stomach onto the grass. She was followed on one occasion to verify the veracity of the rumour. It is true, said the sleuth.

But it is not her fault, rather a metabolic problem not of her making.

Late 29 April 2017

South Australia Emergency Relief Directory 2017 download page

https://www.lccare.org.au/lisp-and-er-directories.html

WestCare music from the past decade: wonderful

Clued-up Drug Dealer makes comeback

The Dealer is back on the Hutt Street Centre circuit and is teamed up with Robyn the Junkie. How he has remained out of jail is a mystery even in the legal environment of dealers getting lower fines than drivers speeding to work. The Dealer specialises in laced cannabis, the laced component of which may included fantasy, heroin, horse tranquiliser, Ice or whatever is floating about the scene.

However, there is a new man in town. A big old guy in a bad mood. It is not clear if he is a dealer or even a user, but he is no joy to be around.

Ajay Stewart is looking terrible, possibly due to his heart condition plus a lifestyle of living in dodgy rooming houses or under trees in the parks. This is a slow motion tragedy as Ajay is one of those desperados who carry a certain moral authority about himself and in the homeless scene.
28 April 2017

Sleepy desperado

A woman went to the Cos We Care free food table in Fremont Park at Elizabeth and left with two bowls of cereal covered in milk and sugar. She took them across the street to her apartment to serve her boyfriend who did not want to get out of bed.

The bowls were not returned so when she tried the same trick the following week, the clean bowls were hidden until she left.
28 April 2017

Stasi Land at Salisbury

Things began badly when a bullying sort of woman told me and a retired Housing Trust building inspector that we could not take any of the Oz Harvest vegetables because we lived 200-hundred metres out of their service area.

Along with Old Nick, we walked into the dining room through the church building. Beverly Brooks and a man appearing like an axe murderer were sitting at a table.

Another domineering woman, Czech-born Marta, told us to get out. She was not polite nor invited us to return 30 minutes later for the new official opening time. Guests last year were invited to have coffee while awaiting the meal, but the church policy has apparently changed. They did not consider hanging up a notice to this effect. That’s welfare for you.

We left and stood outside in the sun until the axe murderer opened the doors and invited us in, his appearance belying his friendly personality. He was not an axe murderer at all, but someone providing a service without pay.

When I sat down, Marta, who is the coordinator, held eye contact with me as she shook the donation tin.

The dozen or so people in the dining room appeared nervous and spoke in whispers. Even Beverly was silent and wary.
There were at least two other cooks in the kitchen, but they were subdued as well.

Marta’s institutional overseer behaviour was uncalled for as nearly all the clients were elderly and sick. They were not unbalanced drug addicts or criminals recently sprung from detox or prison.

Eventually, we joined the queue for the food. Marta seemed not particularly unpleasant when I told her I didn’t want any meat. That left a bun, roast potato and boiled mixed frozen vegetables. No sauce or vinegar. There was one set of salt and peppershakers not visible even at the serving counter. It made the Elizabeth Food Barn seem like the Hilton hotel restaurant.

However, the meat component of the meal was superb, according to Old Nick who said the roast lamb melted in his mouth. Marta later came around the tables with even better roasted pork. She is a good cook.

Bill sat at our table. He was born in 1939 and has had two toes amputated due to vascular disease. He has also had three stents and one of his heart valves does not operate and is too damaged to repair. He rides on an invalid scooter and lives in a tin bungalow rented from Dominic for $170 a week. He gets a food hamper from the church once a month. He slurs his words.

However, it was Old Nick who noticed that Bill spoke with irony. “Why do abattoir workers always have a sense of humour?” he asked. “And tell so many good stories.”

With such worthy guests, the Salisbury Uniting church should make the atmosphere more relaxed. They should let guests enter the building an hour before the meal, like at the Elizabeth Food Barn. They should make sauce, vinegar, salt and pepper easily available.

Marta is the coordinator of the free meal and along with the other staff must be commended for their effort. But Marta needs to be delicately told that the Soviet empire has collapsed. The Iron Curtain no longer exists and Czech citizens have no fear of sent to Siberian gulags. And Marta should realise she is a free citizen, as are we.

Salisbury Uniting Church
59-61 Park Terrace, Salisbury (near school) ph 8258 2675
Free lunch and vegetables. Wednesdays 12 noon to 1:00pm
It is quite good and Marta is a dream once she determines you’re not a scumbag.
27 April 2017

Cool Hand Martin

Martin collects cans from rubbish bins in the Adelaide CBD. He eats and drinks directly from stuff thrown into the bins. These include half-filled drink bottles and half-eaten hamburgers. He carries huge bags on each side of his bicycle.

He is a friend of Erica Edeltraut. He owns his house in Salisbury. He’s been to the Antarctic. That’s Cool Hand Martin for you.
27 April 2017

Essentials 4 Women

The Essentials4Women organisation allegedly granted my aunty Griselda $10,000 to fix her teeth. She showed her appreciation at a subsequent Essentials4Woman stall in the parklands by knocking off an unopened box of shampoo destined for underclass and homeless women. Then she sent her new boyfriend over to the table to grab more.

A certain stream of welfare workers across Adelaide have been asked to watch every move Griselda makes whenever anything is offered free.

A rumour doing the rounds is that she sends her kids to a private school costing $60,000 a year. What is true is that she is determined to give her children the best start in life. One can only respect her for that. She is a role model for other women in the homeless scene. And no one doubts that my aunty Griselda will go to extremes to get what she deems necessary to achieve her aims.

27 April 2017

(above) Back of the Anglicare Elizabeth Food Barn during one night last week. This is where Orange Sky Laundry parked their free washing and drying van on Fridays from 9:30am to 12:30pm until they cancelled the service due to lack of volunteers. This means there is a vacancy for Community Member No. 1, Peter Sandeman.

(above) Anglicare Elizabeth Mission at pre-dawn. They call it a family centre. The Food Barn with its free lunch Monday to Friday from 11:30am to 12:30pm is in the background. Horrible dirty toilets.

Hutt Street Centre power play

The Hutt Street Centre has reportedly opened on Saturday mornings from 7:00am to 9:00am. This is before Our Street Family Matters arrives at 9:15am to serve breakfast on the footpath outside the building.

While opening on Saturday morning, the Hutt Street Centre now closes on Sundays, no longer providing its breakfast and takeaway food from 9:00am to 11:00am.

This means that along with the Armageddon Barbecue in Hurtle Square at 8:30am, there are now three breakfast services near the same location on Saturday morning and none on Sunday. Why would the Hutt Street Centre do this?

The “Our Street Family Matters” organisation has recently been attracting larger numbers of genuine and actually homeless clients.

One commentator said that Ian Hitch-Cox and Brenda “Chainsaw” McCulloch want to make redundant the free breakfast provided by Our Street Family Matters, which has been an embarrassment to the Hutt Street Centre.

27 April 2017

Matt & Marg's cyber truth
(From the Contact Page)

Limerick Challenge
PIANO PLAYING WAYNE (AND CAT)

“When Wayne hits the web with his shovel and bull,
It confirms a brown substance of which he is full!”

27 April 2017

More on Robyn

A source in the South Parklands homeless community said that Robyn claims to have 50 grandchildren. This seemed unlikely in lieu of another source, this one within the Hutt Street Centre, who told me that Robyn adopts the tragic stories of other people then replaces their names with her own.

A third source stated directly that Robyn pretends to have familial connections to other women’s children when she does not. Perhaps that is the origin of her fifty grandchildren.

Similarly, no one in the homeless scene I have spoken to takes serious Robyn’s claim that she was “Emma’s best friend.”*

*This refers to Emma Hines who was found dead in January 2016 in the South Parklands near Veale Gardens.
27 April 2017

Matt & Marg's cyber truth
(from the Contact Page)
PIANO PLAYING WAYNE (AND CAT)
Limerick Challenge

"When Wayne takes a Weeble, the truth becomes feeble.
Wayne and the cat ? that's where NO CREDS are at!"
Late 25 April 2017

Matt & Marg's cyber truth
(from the Contact Page)

“[Rundle] Mall Management was pleased to see that, at last, something was being done.

"They were not sympathetic toward Wayne's claim of being a schizophrenic, deluded, self grandiating multiple amputee. They insisted that he was a normal toe less, tacit tuba player acting like an idiot. Oom Pah Pah from them.”
Late 25 April 2017

Has Ruf Us shut down?

Ruf Us Charitable Trust has ceased its collection of furniture and other household goods until further notice due to their haulage contractor, Two-Minute Tim, disappearing from the scene.

Nevertheless, Ruf Us says they will pick up items “required for emergencies,” whatever that means.

Government and other agencies pay Ruf Us to deliver the donated furniture to selected new tenants, most of whom are alleged victims of domestic violence. However, the laborious and expensive process of collecting furniture from donators is paid for by Ruf Us itself. Two-Minute Tim is the paid haulage contractor.

The money to pay Two-Minute Tim and the rent for the Ruf Us warehouse in South Terrace, Wingfield comes from the $94,000 raised last year by the Founder of Ruf Us, who along with the volunteers left last November to form a new organisation named Our Street Family Matters.

This means that the donated money is being spent by Ruf Us on an idle warehouse until they obtain another contractor, or until Two-Minute Tim returns. The vehicle donated by the Lions Club also sits idle at the warehouse, soaking up donated money for registration.

The question is why don’t Ruf Us get another contractor until Tim returns? Or is Two-Minute Tim a spent force and they need a new carrier?

And while Ruf Us Charitable Trust may not be doing anything, they still seek donations and kindly provide their banking details on their website.

http://rufus.org.au/donate-to-us/

25 April 2017

Semi-literate soldier unhappy

The Salvation Army soldier was unhappy when Playford Corps gave her a bookmark for Easter. She wanted chocolate, lots of it, and Coke with lots of sugar in it.

However, she is reconciled with the bookmark, which she uses in her Bible.
25 April 2017

From the Contact Page

Comment
PIANO PLAYING WAYNE (AND CAT)

Wayne has become the most banned of any Rundle Mall village idiot.

The City Salvos have determined Wayne to be a PISS (Perpetually Inappropriate Salvo Soldier)
and banned him.

Wilson Security regard Wayne as an OFF (Offensive Feline Facilitator) and had him removed by police with the imposition of a ban from the entire Rundle Place building including Coles, Harris Scarfe's, the basement food hall and the City Cross food hall.

Woolies Rundle Mall declared him as a WAYNE (Woolies Announces Your Next Expulsion) after
the health dept insisted on a no cat zone. The animal had vomited a fur ball in front of customers.

Posted 25 April 2017
Editor: More to come from the Contact Page

Easter Saturday at the Salvation Army in Adelaide

“Quietest night ever,” one guest said. Nothing happened. Just your usual Aboriginal drunks. Man sitting across the street. Watching.”

They served fish and chips, salad, tartar sauce and even salt and pepper. No tomato sauce.

The Bait Woman was there with a new man. “Sort of short, skinny, white, old-looking, grey hair, just a wrinkled old man, not an Aboriginal. She’s half Aboriginal herself, isn’t she?”

The Army gave away from the free food room: Two types of cereal, powdered milk, Tic-Tacs, small bottles of drink, salted chocolate biscuits, chocolate reindeers described by one guest as: “Expiry date June 2017, only thing in date”. Potatoes, capsicums, cauliflower. And bananas that, “looked like they’d been kicked from Food Bank to the Salvos, black as bugg***, soft as sh**, dark grapes, black capsicums, whatever...”

A man talked about being threatened with a knife, but The Ghost Who Walks responded with his tale of being, “...stabbed with screw driver in neck, throat, didn’t go in too deep, just made it bleed.”

25 April 2017

The Cousin buys new washing machine

The Cousin was loathe to get rid of his 31-year-old twin tub washing machine. He does not like to waste money. But the fan belt became so frayed it couldn’t turn the spin drier.

The Cousin went to Radio Rentals and bought a new machine for $528. The salesman pressured him to rent it instead, because that would mean The Cousin would pay twice the cost over three or four years.

The Cousin is no fool and he paid cash. He tried to get a $100 trade-in for the twin tub, but was not successful.
25 April 2017

Angels of Australia
Easter Sunday disaster

Adelaide Lord Mayor Martin Haese’s coup d’état

Patrons of the Angels of Adelaide free Easter meal milled about the front door of the Adelaide Town Hall on Easter Sunday. They knew the rule of the streets: anyone not amongst the first rush would miss out.

They blocked the footpath so that pedestrians were forced to walk onto King William Street. Mrs Judith Telstra shoved her way to near the front of the queue claiming she had “a bus to catch afterward,” but she failed to get past Horse Trader Steve.

Piano Player Wayne mocked her for being a millionaire who stole toilet paper from WestCare and the Myer Centre. He said her backpack could hold eight rolls. Mrs Telstra was furious, but her need to get in first was stronger than the humiliation she suffered from the jibes of others in the queue.

Angels of Adelaide, who are part of Angels of Australia, knew they were not prepared for the crowd size so they called Adelaide Mayor Martin Haese, who was hovering on the sidelines.

He has taken over administration of the event by luring the Angels to move from the Pilgrim Church to the Adelaide City Council Town Hall. This gives him the power to withdraw the venue if they don’t give him top billing. Apart from using the event to promote himself, he plays no beneficial role in providing the service.

The front door opened at 4:45pm allowing disabled people early entry. That was fair. However, Griselda also barged in with her two hefty children. She said they might wander onto the busy road. But they’re already ten and twelve years old.

A security guard sat behind a wall of screens linked to Spy Cameras.

The front doors opened a second time at 5:10pm and the crowd rushed in. One man ran up to the stage where the hairdressers were due to operate and found all three already working on Griselda and her two children. One of the hairdressers works near Nova FM at Hindmarsh Square. One customer described her as “a black woman,” but she is from East London and speaks with a cockney accent.

Rachel Sanderson is the shadow Minister for Housing. She was educated at St Peters College. On Easter Sunday, she “strutted about the hall as if she owned it.” She began her involvement with the Angels of Adelaide with humility, but along with Haese has turned the event into a tool for her political career.

Dominic and Jill were there along with the man who owns 19 buses. The bus owner’s girlfriend has “mini fits”. They provided free transport to and from Mary’s Kitchen at Glenelg last Christmas. Karen from Picket Fence was there in her wheelchair. The physiotherapist from the Burdekin Clinic helped another invalid into the elevator. Piano Player Wayne hid in the disability toilets with his suitcase, thinking about killing himself. His diabetic infection had returned.

The Vitamin Derelict arrived with a huge 4-wheel trolley with a waterproof liner. His plans were to stock up on food for the next week. Krusher Karl’s girlfriend was there. Kenneth stuck close to a woman he didn’t know so people would think he was with her. “Margot and her nasty boyfriend” were there. Robyn the Junkie parked herself on a chair. The respected Peter Gibson was there along with Kelvin in his wheelchair. Mark Arstall, 38, (The Show Pony) was absent. Pedro was there. He goes to a Chinese Christian church for the free Chinese food after the service. He is a retired schoolteacher. Pedro and Kenneth tried the same trick at a church on Unley Road on Good Friday, but without success.

When everyone was seated, Adelaide Lord Mayor Martin Haese ordered the patrons to applaud the Adelaide City Council for letting them use the Town Hall. Guests ignored him so Margot Casey of Bill Shorten kissing fame cleverly leveraged herself into the equation by screaming at everyone to shut-up. If Haese and Sanderson knew this comfortably housed woman’s role in the homeless scene, they’d be shaking in their shoes.

There was very little meat served. Just chicken, according to one guest. The Angels began cutting it into ever-smaller pieces as if trying to imitate Jesus with the bread and fish. Blithe Spirit said she was served a partial chicken wing, but the chicken still ran out before half the guests were served.

One of the salads was mixed with ham, but generally, it was “pasta, pasta, pasta and rice,” according to The Cousin who added that, “Everything was cold except the soft drinks,” which disappeared before everyone was served.

The pizza was “cold as a maggot,” according to The Ghost Who Walks. He said there was “very little meat, a bit of chicken, gorgeous salad,” but generally, “shocking, one time they used to have lots of meat, pasta, I can cook pasta, anyone can do that.”

To add insult to the bad service, a volunteer at the dessert tables went over to the The Ghost Who Walks and suggested he have dessert first then the main meal later. But by then the food had run out except for the pasta. When The Ghost got up to get a drink, he returned to find that volunteers had cleared the table.

Even Piano Player Wayne said it was “too rushed.” He added that it “should have been from 4pm to 7pm [not 5:15pm to 6:30pm]. “No sooner had they put stuff out, they were packing up.”

Piano Player Wayne was the impetus to get the venue changed to the Town Hall and next Christmas he wants it in Adelaide Oval. However, he was hiding out in the disability toilets.

Blithe Spirit’s criticism was more moderate. She said, “...not complaining, but it did seem a little rushed.”

Haese announced there was a doctor available for consultations. This doctor stood in a corner of the hall and was described as, “...some old guy, about 80, he needed a doctor himself, more like a witch doctor.”

The Cousin described the event as “pitiful, disgrace, disaster from start to finish. Rachel [Sanderson] strutting around like she owned the place, the Queen of Adelaide. Even the Lord Mayor had his missus, walked around like he owned the place...ran out of plates, gave takeaway containers, eat from that, rice and pasta and all this other sh** and Christ knows what, chicken ran out before half [of the guests were] served.” He added that he, “...got a banana, grapes, rockmelon, that’s all I decided to eat.”

One guest said Martin Haese, “...skitted about as if saying, ‘I organised all this for you, you poor little bastards.’”

The Cousin said they ran out of gift bags for men, so they removed the tampons from some of the women’s bags and gave those to the men. A drunk Aboriginal was unhappy with the contents so he said, “Nothing in here, give us another one before I kill some c**t.” They gave him another and he responded with, “Get out of my way or I’ll kill someone.”

The bags included toothpaste, soap, tissues, Easter eggs, a banana, Arnott’s Shapes (MSG crackers), skin moisturiser, hand sanitiser (strange smell). How many men wanted skin moisturiser? The Cousin said his went straight into the rubbish.

Many missed out on the bags though Horse Trader Steve got three because two other guests gave him their bags. This is an acceptable practice in the homeless scene.

There were 14 tables with 10 chairs at each table. Not all tables were full. A volunteer said they expected forty guests, but 120 arrived. But if they expected only forty, then why did the Angels of Adelaide not hold it in the friendlier Pilgrim Church hall. The added bonus would have meant that Martin Haese and Rachel Sanderson could have been prevented from hijacking the event to suit their political ambitions.

When the event ended just after 6:30pm, a contingent raced across Flinders Street to Fred’s Van where they happily obtained sausages and sauce on white bread. The Sai Baba group was also there serving vegetarian rice and curry.

The Angels of Adelaide event was more an insult to the underclass rather than a service. They should return to the Pilgrim Church hall and ban parasites like Adelaide Lord Mayor Martin Haese and Member of Parliament Rachel Sanderson from attending.

Posted 24 April 2017

(above) Seventh-day Adventist Church, 20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park (across Main North Road from Anglicare Elizabeth Mission). 11:30am to 12noon Mondays and Thursdays. Best of get there at 11:30am sharp. Bread, fruit and vegetables. Free, of course. Health Care Card required, usually.

Vince Focarelli’s soup kitchen finished

Lance Armstrong regularly checks La’Fig restaurant on Saturday evenings after the Magdalene Church hall free meal in Moore Street. He says it is “always closed and dead”. The phone has also been disconnected.

This means the Tuesday evening soup kitchen is finished, which is a sad end to Vince’s unique effort.
Late 23 April 2017

Exclusive Brethren free barbecue

The Brethren’s Rapid Relief Port Adelaide barbecue scheduled for the last Tuesday in each month falls on Anzac Day this month so it has been rescheduled for Wednesday 24 April 2017 at the same location.

Rapid Relief Team (Plymouth Brethren)
Back of Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide
Last Tuesday of each month from 11:30am to 1:30pm except December when it is earlier.
Free.
Posted late 23 April 2016

Chat and Chew back in action

The free Chat and Chew late afternoon meal will be served from 4:30pm this Wednesday, 26 April 2017. Entry for coffee is from 4:00pm.

A regular guest says the meal will be served by a new group called The Primates.

Chat and Chew is primarily for “mental health” clients and their friends, but no one has ever been kicked out for not fitting that criteria.

Chat and Chew
Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide.
(entry from back gate off K-Mart parking area)
4:00 - 6:00 pm (Every second Wednesday) Free
Main course, dessert, tea and coffee. No takeaways
Posted late 23 April 2017

Remembering an Ice tenant

A landlord remembers rent a house to the Ice-addicted son of a police officer. He was friendly and reasonable at first then sawed down a beautiful tree in the front room, refused to pay rent and removed an air-conditioner to sell for drug money.
Late 23 April 2017

End of Praise and Worship band?

Rumour has it that Major Jeff Waller and his wife, Major Christine Waller, are conservatives and are planning to end the Praise and Worship band from performing at Adelaide Congress Hall then replace it with the traditional brass band.

The rumour has it that the Praise and Worship band is heretical and not based on scripture.

The source of this rumour is a certain Army jester with a sardonic wit.
Late 23 April 2017

Brian Burdekin Clinic

A patient has observed Aboriginals getting bus tickets from the Brian Burdekin Clinic near Whitmore Square then trading them for cigarettes.
23 April 2017

Show Pony knocks glasses and hat off old man’s head

Last Friday, Mark Arstall, 38, shouted to a room of unstable personalities at the Hutt Street Centre that old Peter was the photographer for Adelaide Homeless Journal. He then knocked the glasses and hat off old Peter’s head. Peter appears to be in his late sixties or early seventies.

According to one cynic, senior staff watched with indifference because management’s policy is to allow the pro-Ice thugs to chase out non-drug users such as Peter.

Arstall’s erroneous view that Peter is this journal’s photographer was perhaps due to Old Peter being the recipient of one of ten Nikon cameras issued by Adelaide University to get Hutt Street Centre clients to photograph examples of “climate change”.

This is the second time Arstall has tried to instigate violence from others against Old Peter. This is a dangerous act because some Hutt Street Centre clients have served time in prison for violence including manslaughter and murder.

A younger Hutt Street Centre employee called the police, by mistake, according to the cynic, due to not understanding management’s policy of encouraging intimidation against non-drug users. The cynic said of the Hutt Street Centre: “Something really wrong going on with the management of this place.”

This view will sound absurd, of course, to outsiders.

For the record, Old Peter is not connected to this journal.

Photograph of The Show Pony (Arstall) provided freely to News Corp photographer.
http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece
22 April 2017

James the Transvestite faces
Grim Reaper

James is a shadow of his former self. The surgery for throat cancer failed and the tumours have spread. He has recently been at the Magdalene Church hall on Saturday evenings.

What a shame to see him go.
22 April 2017

Piano Player Wayne back in hospital

“I can’t see any reason for going on,” Wayne said last week from his hospital bed in the old RAH.

Wayne was due for surgery today when a surgeon was scheduled to cut back an area of infection at the site of a toe amputation and hopefully clean out that area. If this is unsuccessful, there will be further amputations.

“The cancer came on first, then the diabetes, then in only the last five years did things get really bad,” Wayne said. “The only thing keeping me alive is the Therapy Cat. Without her, I would have topped myself,” he added.

However, after a visit by the Therapy Cat, Wayne’s mood improved and he occupies his time by writing nasty ditties about Captain Matt Reeve and the Equity Queen at the Salvation Army. That cheers him up.
22 April 2017

Heather regrets talking to the media

Heather from Canadian Lodge regrets talking to the media after the recent fire in her flat. She and her husband were subletting to bus drivers who drove the buses parked next door.

It is alleged that the fire began in one of the rooms occupied by a driver. Stating this to a television crew has created all kinds of problems. It is believed that Polities own the building.

Heather can be seen at the historic Trinity Church on North Terrace, one street back from the Crazy Horse strip joint.

Heather and his husband last Christmas provided free transport to and from Mary’s Kitchen at Glenelg.

Heather and the old boy have since moved to a motel on Glen Osmond Road until repairs are completed.
22 April 2017

From the People

(via the Contact Page)

Criticism of the Adelaide Angels free meal at Adelaide Town Hall

“Angel Critic

“ADELAIDE ANGELS DIOREARIC DISASTER

“Where to start ?

“As clients began accepting food service, an obviously frustrated lady organizer started shouting but could not raise attention. Then she started yodeling. When this was ignored, she yodeled again and again. Then, still ignored, she went into tantrum mode and yelled to workers STOP SERVING. This was a shock to hungry homeless people. As it turned out, her subsequent speech could not be heard and was without real purpose.

“The savory food was lacking in variety and appeal. It consisted of chicken, fried rice,
silly combos of spiral pasta and lasanga.
While the dessert featured come nice pav
and black forest cake, it also lacked variety.

“THEN, the plates ran out !!!!! THEN, it turned out that all the drinks were not cold.

“What a screw up, Australian Angels !!!

“THEN, before the author could get to a keyboard
to submit this review he had to spend a good deal of time on a toilet while everything from Australian Angels EASTER 2017 made a rapid exit.

“AUSTRALIAN ANGELS A PROBLEM AT BOTH ENDS !!!

“AT THE VERY LEAST, GET A MEGA PHONE SO THAT YOUR ORGANISERS DON'T HAVE TO YODEL. IT MAY BE THE YODELING CAUSING THE UNWANTED LAXATIVE AFFECT.”
Received 20 April 2017
Posted 22 April 2107

From his hospital bed

“There was once an officer called Matt
Who banned from DUO’s the man with the cat.
It was therapy, you see, but not for matt
Or the Equity Queen.
So they said,
We ain’t gonna tolerate that.”

Piano Player Wayne from the Royal Adelaide Hospital
22 April 2017

Mrs Telstra

An old friend of Mrs Judith Telstra remembers when she took a meal from the WestCare dining room then ran into the toilet block.

But the friend says that Mrs Tesltra “won’t eat food at meal places, yet cannot stop herself grabbing food wherever she goes, can’t stop herself.”

When the staff member chased Mrs Telstra into the toilet block there was no food to be seen so it is believed she flushed it down the toilet.
22 April 2017

The Face of Adelaide Homelessness

A veteran within the Hutt Street Centre remembers a recent annual “Walk a Mile in my Boots” fundraising campaign where they used a non-homeless drug addict as their mascot.

The drawcard was her facial wrinkles that made her look like someone who had lived outside most of her life. Yet a Hutt Street Centre insider said the mascot had never lived outside in her life. This insider said that if anyone walked a mile in the wrinkled mascot’s boots, it would be from her comfortable home in Unley then across the South Parklands to the Hutt Street Centre where she joins the daily drug junkie melee.

The insider was particularly scathing that this Hutt Street Centre mascot was a “...pretender, never been homeless...hangs around Hutt Street Centre because she was desperate to talk to someone and now can’t stay away from the place...and...goes around telling hard luck stories of her life, but they’re actually stories of other people who have been homeless; she just changes the names.”

As a reward, the mascot has free reign of the Hutt Street Centre and gets away with drug addicted behaviour that gets others kicked out.
21 April 2017

Show Pony seen at Hutt Street Centre

Mark Arstall, 38, (The Show Pony) was seen at the Hutt Street Centre last Tuesday. He stayed for thirty minutes then left.

Meanwhile, the 70-year-old bicycle rider whom Arstall spat on and threatened with a table knife expects to be kicked out of WestCare. He says that WestCare management has not spoken to him about the incident despite seeing him repeatedly during last week. An exception is Sharon who also works at Ian George Court in Hindmarsh.

One might think the bike rider paranoid , but he remembers what happened to the 63-year-old who can barely walk and who went for a tumble after being threatened by The Show Pony, 38. WestCare kicked out the victim while The Show Pony was treated like a “fragile person with issues” who deserved extra kind treatment.
21 April 2017

Intel Dave

Intel Dave is back in the Selby Street scene near Whitmore Square. He has had extensive treatment for leg ulcers, the cause of which has not been disclosed.

The Intel Man is lucky to be walking.
21 April 2017

Clayton’s free fruit and vegetables

“Uh,oh,” someone muttered last Tuesday when a plump woman with brown skin and wearing a hijab walked up the side of the historic Clayton’s Uniting Church at Beulah Park. “One of them.”
“Camel jockey,” another added.

Perhaps a dozen people waiting outside the locked doors for 40 minutes while five or six children ran about on the bitumen walking area. This included two Finnish-Estonian children who speak Finish only and laugh at the way we mispronounce their names. The family has two weeks left on their visa unless either the mother or father can get a job.

The doors opened at 1:30pm and we sat around while staff gave balloons and chocolate Easter eggs to the children. The “Camel Jockey” ran around the counter, fired up the barista machine, and served free coffee for the next two hours. That induced a degree of self-reflection in the critic and those around him. The barista lady had a cheerful and helpful personality. Other staff including a Christian African named Gai brought around plates of sliced fruit.

Amongst the clients were three South Korean women with a 17-month-old baby named Olivia. I asked the mother if she knew Au Yung from Elizabeth, but she could not understand my speaking voice. She said, “you speak so fast.”

Another woman said she’d lived 23 years in the United States while married to a submarine officer. Her father died last week at the age of 96 while her mother suffers from dementia. When the mother asks to see her husband, her daughter tells her he is taking a nap. The old girl held her husband’s hand when he died, but can’t remember it. She didn’t want him to die, but he did.

The free food included not the freshest whole meal bread, “cooking pears”, so-so watermelon, Tim Tams and salted chocolate biscuits four months past the Best-By date plus excellent potatoes, apples, carrots, melon, rock melon and onions.

The apples were top quality because the growers can’t sell them due to odd sizes the supermarkets won’t accept. And most suburban greengrocers that would sell them have gone out of business. Therefore, we get them, fresh.

The fresh food aspect of many free food venues is a great improvement on food handouts from previous decades where charities gave boxes of old unhealthy canned food and dead long-life cheese.

The Ancient Old Lady and Mrs Telstra weren’t there and the Ghost Who Walks kept phoning to see what was happening. He was up to his neck dealing with an Unley health inspector telling him to get rid of three of his spare cars. This is despite The Ghost having grown up in the house from the age of 4 days, just after the Second World War. However, the Ghost is a survivor and has a plan for dealing with the so-called health inspector who should actually be called his neighbours’ butting-into-other-peoples’-lives inspector.

Clayton Uniting Church
corner of Portrush Road and The Parade, Norwood
Second Tuesday of each month from 1:30pm to 3:00pm for free fruit, vegetables and coffee
Every Wednesday for Orange Sky Laundry from 11:00am to 1:00pm.
Every Wednesday from about noon for coffee and sandwiches.
Every Friday for smorgasbord lunch at 12 noon.
Small donation requested for Wednesday and Friday food, but not compulsory.
Late 20 April 2017

Voice from the people

Comment
“The Hutt Street fish meal on Good Friday was the best meal I've ever had at Hutt Street, including on Christmas Day…the chef…happened to be a gentleman named Ted… Good on you, Ted!”
Late 20 April 2017

Last Saturday at Do Unto Others

One client said the hot chocolate was cold and without froth and that he breathed in the chocolate powder sprinkled on top. He said the atrium at 8:30pm was “not a happy place” and was nearly empty. There was no karaoke or quiz. Theresa and her granddaughter were there with “a different man,” a mystery man. Robyn ate and ran, as usual. She is purpose driven and doesn’t sit around chewing the fat. One charity worker described Robyn as "Vermin".

Do Unto Others Social Evening
Salvation Army, 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide (near Hutt Street)
Every Saturday
5:00pm to 11:00pm
Free coffee at 5:00pm; Free meal at 6:00pm; Free barista coffee at 8:00pm; Free pizza at 9:30pm
A unique cultural experience.
Also on Wednesday at 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide
Entry from back door
4:30pm to 7:30pm every Wednesday. Free meal and drinks.
20 April 2017

(above) Anglicare Elizabeth Mission notice at 5:00am last Wednesday, 19 April 2017. A rumour doing the rounds is that Orange Sky Laundry cancelled its free washing and drying service at Elizabeth because the volunteers quit because they disliked either the clients or, generally, “the people who come here.” But the Orange Sky clients we have observed are quite reasonable people.

Confessions of an ex-hoarder

“I was serving Tim Tams 3-years-old to friends. But now most of my rubbish bin each week is filled with food. That’s why I’m cutting back with the Salvos and cutting out Friday Market Day.”

Late 18 April 2017

Rumour, maybe false

A rumour is doing the rounds of the Adelaide CBD homeless circuit that Grinder attacked Mrs Judith Telstra at the Hutt Street Centre.

Grinder previously spent time in prison for punching Mrs Telstra’s friend, Michael, who is a different person that Michael the WestCare cook.

Grinder is one of the nicest criminally inclined drug addicts in Adelaide, but it is important to speak to him politely, a skill unknown to Mrs Telstra.

Late 18 April 2017

The tragedy rolls on

Unless he is an incredible survivor, Mark Arstall will end up injured, hauled away to a psychiatric unit or in jail. Or perhaps even deported back to New Zealand.

Some attribute his behaviour to psychosis. A critic, whom Arstall particularly targets on the street says she feels “pity, anger and sadness” for him. She adds that he may be suffering from “paranoid delusions. If so, people writing about him online would be very distressing for him.”

Yet another person describes him as “a show pony who only goes off when people are around, on a regular basis.”

Yet a fourth watcher who observes Arstall regularly at various soup kitchens wonders why he feeds material to online reporters by acting the way he does, and that he is fully cognisant and in control of his actions.

Whatever, he’s an artist, a talent and, if he doesn’t take better care of himself, a tragedy.

Late 18 April 2017

Elizabeth Food Barn

“Old Nick liked the brown beef stew at the Food Barn last week for a reason I cannot remember. It had something to do with the lack of meat and his problems with swallowing food since having surgery.

“A new quest who used to be a building inspector with the Housing Trust said he preferred garlic in food. He was being diplomatic and avoided saying it lacked flavour.

“And, of course, the Dumpster Queen said it was burnt and not fit for the clients.

“I’ve given up attempting to obtain non-meat food at the Food Barn, but it remains a relaxing place to have a coffee at lunch with reasonable and interesting people. The staff are at times inspiring. I have gotten used to the guard with the hard stare and blue eyes. He does not cause trouble and he’s gotten rid of the Ice dealers and addicts that used to prowl the carpark and hang around the front of the building. They’ve moved to the Coles entrance of the Elizabeth shopping centre.”

Anglicare Mission
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
11:30am to 1:00pm Monday to Friday
Free lunch, No dessert, No takeaways, Much improved.
Security guard in car park and dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in
Late 18 April 2017

Police called over Arstall

Mark Arstall, 38, stormed across the courtyard to the table of the 70-year-old bike rider at WestCare last Thursday and grabbed his soup and meal token. The old man was nervous because Arstall had thrown a bowl of soup over him last February, so he expected the same again.

The old man told Arstall that, “I don’t think you’re being honest with yourself or anyone else. I think you’re being stupid.” The old man admits he might even have told Arstall that he was stupid.

Arstall moved some distance away then threw his backpack to the ground and raced towards the old man from behind. The old man thought “he was going to cop it...fully expecting to get thumped.” He raised his hands to the side of his head for protection, but the blows did not eventuate. But in his rage, Arstall spat on him then grabbed a cutlery knife and from the other side of the table pointed it at him. At this time, a WestCare employee quietly suggested to Arstall that he leave. Before walking out, Arstall said to the old man, “I’ll wait for you when you come outside.”

The old man, not WestCare, called the police, but Arstall evaded the two officers who arrived minutes later.

A WestCare employee named Sharon gave a statement to the police.

However, David Secomb exemplified the organisation’s attitude when he entered the courtyard a few minutes later. According to the old man, who admits he was in shock and might have missed any positive nuance, Secomb ignored him and did not offer a word of sympathy.

It is believed that WestCare is tacitly allowing Arstall to attack anyone suspected of contributing to this website, though the evidence is circumstantial.

While this incident appears minor, it is the lingering pernicious fear of being attacked that causes the most damage for people being targeted by the Ice crowd. The homeless community is riddled with people convicted of violent crimes and even deaths. And the belief that WestCare is giving Arstall the green light to attack others only increases this fear.

A check of the SAPOL computer late Saturday evening, two days after the incident, showed no record of police being in contact with Arstall.
Late 17 April 2007
Edit: Late 18 April 2017

From China without Love?

The Man Formerly Known as the Drug Addict was nearly unrecognisable last week near Hutt Street. Johnny has aged ten years in 9 months.

He was a highly paid precision welder on the Collins-class submarines while I was a derelict sleeping in the mud nearby.
Many see Johnny as a terror, but he has retained a humanity that has avoided being sucked into the vortex of the crystal methamphetamine scourge.
Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer
Late 17 April 2017

Nina

“Nina is a can of worms.”
Baptist Care client
Late 17 April 2017

Puddle Jumpers free food

One client said he took just twenty tins of tuna because he didn’t want to be greedy. There were also good potatoes, apples and carrots. The client said there were “heaps of cakes, buns and bread, not much green stuff, but a bit of lettuce.”

The women served tea and coffee, and little pizzas from the oven. One guest found a 5-litre coffee percolator in the hard rubbish across the road.

The Ghost Who Walks said they had so many packets of salted chocolate biscuits that, “they couldn’t give them away, taste horrible, you don’t put salt in chocolate, got 40 packets.”

The Ghost gave them to the Viking Can Collector who earns an income collecting cans from rubbish bins and refuses to accept welfare.

The Ghost says it is best to go there at 6:00pm after the greedy people have left and when staff put out new stuff.

Puddle Jumpers
21 Maple Avenue, Forestville (behind the closed down Le Cornu on Anzac Highway)
[email protected]. Ph 0400 999 349
Every Monday from 5:00pm to about 7:00pm except public holidays.
Free fruit, vegetables and kitchen knick-knacks. Friendly atmosphere.
Children and babies especially welcome.
Late 16 April 2017

(above) Orange Sky Laundry now operate their free washing and drying service at Clayton Uniting Church on the corner of Portrush Road and The Parade, Beulah Park. Wednesdays 11:00am to 1:00pm.

Orange Sky Laundry latest expansion

Orange Sky’s free mobile washing and drying service has set up shop at Clayton’s Uniting Church in the rich suburb of Beulah Park on Wednesdays from 11:00am to 1:00pm.
If only Orange Sky had been in operation when I camped those years on the mud flats near Mutton Cove across from the Collins-class submarine factory.

I would fill my jerry cans from the tap at Mick Skypio’s petrol station in Port Adelaide then wash my clothing in a bucket and hang it on the branches of bush pines growing in the salty mud. When some relative of Skypio driving a black SUV told me to stop using their tap, I instead got water from a park in Peterhead.

The Hope Cafe at Clayton’s is open during Orange Sky Laundry’s visit and offers coffee and sandwiches for a donation of as low as one-dollar, or even nothing if you’re broke.

Most clients of the Hope Cafe are office workers, church people, refugees and immigrants with an occasional visitor from the homeless scene including Mrs Telstra who adds social spice to the gathering.

The Ghost Who Walks said that Clayton’s served a “not bad tossed salad” last Friday and the only tossers present were those making the salad.

Clayton Uniting Church
Corner of Portrush Road and The Parade, Beulah Park
Every Wednesday from 11:00am to 1:00pm for Orange Sky Laundry
Second Tuesday of each month from 1:30pm to 3:00pm for free fruit, vegetables and coffee
Every Wednesday from about noon for coffee and sandwiches.
Every Friday for smorgasbord lunch at 12 noon.
Small donation requested for Wednesday and Friday food, but not compulsory.
Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer
Late 16 April 2017

Medicinal marijuana versus
Big Pharma

It is strange how the Ice dealers in the homeless scene operate with near impunity while Jenny Hallam is charged by police for manufacturing medicinal marijuana.
Jenny Hallam removes the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) component that gives the high, but leaves the cannabinol (CBD) active ingredient.

It is the CBD that reduces epileptic seizures and is a safer painkiller than its pharmaceutical status quo. It is also thought be to an anti-psychotic in contrast to THC, which causes psychosis in some people.

Hallam is reportedly given the raw product free then removes the THC to produce medicinal marijuana, which she gives to selected people without charge.

While Hallam faces court, dealers on the Gawler train line arrange and transact Ice and laced-dope deals without apparent fear of the guards or the police.
Late 16 April 2017

Duress alarms at WestCare

Paid and unpaid staff at WestCare are issued with duress alarms, but these not the cheap versions that the Hutt Street Centre gives or sells to clients. These are electronic versions that alert all staff in the WestCare complex.
David Secomb used it a year or so back when someone got too close to him. However, when Mark Arstall, 38, put a bowl of soup over the 70-year-old bike rider who doesn’t use drugs, all remained silent. No staff member pressed his or her duress alarm.
Instead, Strange Stuart responded to the situation by telling the victim that they were going to shut down this website. That was the alert response.
Late 16 April 2017

Access denied

WestCare management has closed its incident report data base to all, but a select few indicating that upper management does not trust most of its staff.

The current issue is WestCare management’s support of the drug dealers and resentment of those who make complaints against them.

Such bias is not new. Nearly a decade ago, renegade staff leaked letters to whistleblowers about an employee reprimanded for the disappearance of huge amounts of food from the kitchen and cool room.

As a result, the reprimanded WestCare staff member was showered with support while management took out its fury on a client. They banned him for life despite him having being going there since his childhood in the 1950’s. Management refused to give the semi-literate man the reason for the expulsion, but it is believed it was connected with the leak of the letters.

Little has changed and locking down the complaints data base is being done to prevent discovery of WestCare’s response to complaints that the Ice dealers are using the joint as a trading post.

And, like before, at least one anti-drug client has been shown the door with one or two others on management’s radar.

But the lockdown also affects even senior staff at WestCare. Those at the top of Baptist Care’s secretive management structure have also banned employees speaking to the media. This includes citizen media which itself includes nearly everyone with a webpage, or even a facebook page. This has shut down simple communication between staff and clients. It is a tragedy.

Late 15 April 2017

Adelaide Congress Hall free Saturday burnt meal

“I could only skim off a few tiny mouthsful of the chicken fillet that was served at the Salvos on Saturday night because it was VERY VERY BURNT. There was at least half a centimetre of BLACK CHARCOAL on the chicken so I had to leave most of it behind. The meals are not normally served like that so there was some circumstance which caused the cooks on this occasion to lose concentration and forget about the meat cooking in the ovens.”

From a regular diner on the free meal served on 8 April 2017
Posted late 15 April 2017

Maxwell Smart’s campaign

Mark Arstall, 38, aka Maxwell Smart, was reportedly seen and heard yelling at an elderly white woman in dark outside the Salvation Army in Pirie Street on Saturday evening of 8 April 2017.
The woman has not been identified.
Late 15 April 2017

Michael saves the bacon

Michael has replaced Heather as the WestCare cook while the latter is on holidays.

Michael reputedly lives in a tent in Kuitpo Forest and has a strong empathy with people living outside.
Late 15 April 2017

Is Miles Kemp sympathetic to the Ice business?

Miles Kemp of the Adelaide Sunday Mail newspaper wrote an article that was published on 18 December 2016 about Mark Arstall, Jesse Gunter and Ajay Stewart. It was the typical annual puff piece about the “homeless” at Christmas.
A week prior to the publication, Mark Arstall had cleverly arranged a photographer, possibly either Mark Brake or Roger Wyman, from the Adelaide Advertiser, (a sister newspaper of the Sunday Mail), to be outside the closed Hutt Street Centre for what he hoped would be a live beating.

The target was a 65-year-old critic of the crystal methamphetamine business running out of the Hutt Street Centre. He was suspected of being the photographer for Adelaide Homeless Journal.

The beating turned into a media fizzer because the old man did not respond to a crystal methamphetamine addicted woman smacking him in the mouth then spitting in his face.

If he had responded, the assembled younger addicted males would have broken a few bones. All one drug dealer could do was pull the old man’s hair and call him a dog. Nevertheless, Mark Arstall was jubilant as he later walked down Gilles Street with Ajay, not knowing he was being tailed by the victim.

Perhaps Kemp and the photographer were ignorant at how they were being used by Arstall. Perhaps they didn’t care.
Now that Kemp realises the extent of the crystal methamphetamine scourge in the homeless scene, why does he not write about it?

He is married to the former Minister in the South Australian Parliament so he has access to officials and data showing how the drug dealers exploit those troubled people who land in the Hutt Street Centre.

The mystery is why does he display such sympathy to the Ice dealers? At least, why does he practice such wilful ignorance?
Late 14 April 2017

More praise for the Equity Queen

A second critic said the Equity Queen has changed considerably over the past two months. He said, “much more approachable, does not strut around anymore,” and is helpful to people.

But another critic said the Equity Queen favours “Camel Jockeys” over the regular crowd. This was a reference to unfriendly women wearing hijabs.

This is probably the majority view, but a substantial minority are impressed that the conservative Salvation Army helps those of another religion. And this sense of justice is why the Equity Queen got her nickname.

Late 14 April 2017

Complaint about Pilgrim’s

The Ghost Who Walks is dismayed with the Pilgrim Church’s free meal on Sunday evenings. He said the special monthly offering has declined so that it is no longer special.

But everyone acknowledges that the Pilgrim crowd provide fresh quality food and not rubbish from Food Bank.
The Pilgrim Church is also an alternative to Sunday Fred’s Van across Flinders Street, but many veterans go to both places.
Pilgrim Church Hall
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (near King William St and Victoria Square)
(entry from back of church)
5:30 pm Sundays.
Fresh food purchased by the parishioners plus tea and coffee.
Late 14 April 2017

Frankenstein unhappy

Frankenstein in the mid-north is unhappy that S.A. Power Networks hasn’t sent him a large cheque for three days without electricity last summer. He hopes to get $600.
The Cousin in Adelaide got $200 for the power being off for 22 hours.
Late 14 April 2017

Emma Hines

Has Mark Arstall shared with investigative authorities what he knows about the drug dealers and addicts who associated with Emma Hines before her death in January 2016?
He was moving with that crowd, especially those from the Brian Burdekin Clinic and WestCare.
Emma was doomed long before she died, but others joined her sad bandwagon on the downward spiral.
Who were they and what do they know? And what does Mark Arstall know?
Late 14 April 2017

From the Dumpster Queen

"Food from the back of Woolies/Drake supermarket dumpsters better than what Anglicare serves its clients!!!

"Having in recent months once again become unemployed (whilst waiting for a new contract to eventuate with the agency i was working for) I am once again forced to go "Dumpster Diving" each weekend. (Thanks Jay and Tom for forcing people to do this, after you have economically ****ed the state!) (I no longer go diving on weeknights, because most larger retail outlets employ security guards during the week but not on weekends)and as such, i can unfortunately not afford to get a criminal record.

"My last foray which was the Saturday just passed was a smaller than average haul, but still quite reasonable, considering i only searched two sites in the outer North of Adelaide, near where i live. (normally i do three or sometimes up to four, but wind and rain drove me to finish up early and go home)

"So? What did i get? Quite a reasonable quantity of good quality fruit and vegetables, which included a couple of pink lady apples, three large but firm tomatoes, two crisp (and still cold) cucumbers, a full half kilo packet of unopened and still in date free-range bacon, half a dozen, clean/edible pontiac potatoes, several individually packaged (in date) slices of banana bread, a loaf of (in date) Helga's German style, organic, sour dough bread (the really expensive bread that costs around $7.50) a half kilo of boiled ham (wrapped, labelled and still in date (the prize of the night) and a double packet of wrapped (in date) Wunterlichs Polish Kabana sausage.

"Now i have to ask this? I understand that food cannot be sold to the general public by supermarkets if it past its use by date, or is has ripped packaging, or has obviously been contaminated or tainted in some way, but none of these products appear to have had these issues??? I mean not even one product (that was wrapped and labelled) was past the use by date?? So my question/query is, why is foodbank (and or it's affiliates) clearly donating food to various charities that is often WELL past its shelf life, when clearly what is being thrown away is more often than not, fit for human (and or in the worst cast scenario) animal consumption. I mean i would not mind if it got donated to the RSPCA or the AWL, at least the pooches/kitties would get a good feed before being euthenaised/gassed (in the worst case scenario?)

"Regardless, I fed half the boiled (virginian style) ham and the kabana sausage to my furries and put the swarte (skin) into a pot of split peas and along with potatoes, onions and carrots (which i scrounged the weekend before) i made a very large (but excellent tasting) pot of pea and ham soup. I also made up some salad with the cucumbers and the tomatoes.

"It tasted a lot better than what Anglicare tried to serve me up last week and it cost NIX (other than a bit of fuel and some tyre tread)

"I recommend all of you who are struggling or want to cut down on food expenses, to do the same. It's NOT an instant fix/magic wand that will make your grocery expenses disappear, but it certainly helps. I have managed with a bit of rejigging my sleeping patterns (i dive most weekends and EVERY long weekend cause that is the best time of all) to only spend $50.00 a fortnight on personal items and pet food i cannot find in bins (e.g. dry cat food, kitty litter and dog bones for example) other than that, i get 80% of my groceries out of the bins. It works and it DOES SAVE MONEY!!!

Cheers,
Claire the Dumpster Diving Queen of the OUTER NORTH!

Posted 13 April 2017

Do unto Others at the Adelaide Salvation Army

The Army gave away packets of aged cereal with Star Wars images on the box, hot sauce, packets of soup with foreign writing, salted chocolate biscuits, chocolate-orange spread (only at Woolworths), Iced Tea, which was collected by friends for Card Player David, packets of food from India and a crate of potatoes from Food Bank.

The Karaoke was popular with some guests while others resented the sound coming through the side speakers around the corner in the cafe area where those who preferred conversation to singing had retreated. Jelena asked that the volume of those speakers be reduced. This is a major fault of the Salvation Army for not fixing an obvious problem. It seems cruel and unnecessary to blast the cafe area with sound when it is not in sight of the Karaoke crowd. It would cost virtually nothing to install volume controls on the cafe area speakers. What is wrong with Major Waller and Mrs Waller of Adelaide Congress Hall? How can they not see such an obvious problem? Have they gone senile?

The takeaway food counter at the back kitchen offered chocolate chip hot cross buns and pizzas. The pizzas were described by one diner as “completely covered in baked beans with a fried egg on top.” This was at 8:00pm when the church service had finished.

Slightly earlier, at 7:40pm, Mark Arstall, 38, stood at the open front doors. This was after the meal when many guests had gone into the church. He shouted for everyone in the atrium to “Shut-Up” then said he was looking for anyone connected to “that website”. He added that, “I’m looking for ****. I’m hunting around and looking for him and eventually I’ll find him.”

But what happens when Arstall, 38, eventually hunts down the old man? Will he call Miles Kemp, Roger Wyman and Mark Brake like last time? They’re from the Adelaide Advertiser and Sunday Mail. Will they do a puff piece on his crusade on behalf of the Ice dealers and addicts?

Anyway, when the thirty people in the atrium saw it was just another addled person shouting his head off, they collectively turned away and continued their own conversations.

Arstall, who is known in the homeless scene as Maxwell Smart, then shouted at the 70-year-old man he threw soup over at WestCare, who had just walked through the backdoor. Arstall screamed in his crazy way that the old man was involved in the website. He shouted, “He’s the c**t who got me banned from WestCare for a week.” The old man sat down at Card Player David’s table.

Arstall then went to the instant coffee counter where he shouted at the Ghost Who Walks, aged 71, and then was “spoken to” by the Equity Queen’s daughter, who is more his age.

He later “cranked it up” again, but was ignored. He sat alone at a table, and then disappeared. The Ghost said Arstall was “looking for drama, dribbling sh** and babbling like a brook.” Another man said Arstall was a coward, presumably because he threatens old men and women, never anyone his own age.

However, one guest in the atrium was disturbed by the incident and later told me, “Mark Arstall went completely psycho at the Salvos, yelling and screaming about the internet. He’s about to get you; he’s not going to let this go; he had a go at everybody. If I were you, I’d move to another state. He either was on drugs or pissed. Definitely on some sh**. If he’d got someone fired up, he would have killed them. I’m not kidding.”

Another witness said, “If you’d been there, he would have attacked you...idiot...psycho, something wrong with his brain, he has to keep something going each day. If he had nothing, his brain would die...obsessed with internet.”

Do Unto Others Social Evening
Salvation Army, 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide (near Hutt Street)
Every Saturday
5:00pm to 11:00pm
Free coffee at 5:00pm; Free meal at 6:00pm; Free barista coffee at 8:00pm; Free pizza at 9:30pm
A unique cultural experience.
Also on Wednesday at 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide
Entry from back door
4:30pm to 7:30pm every Wednesday. Free meal and drinks.
Compiled by the Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer
Posted late 12 April 2017

From the Contact Page

From: Anonymous at the Salvation Army
Directed to: Maxwell Smart (Mark Arstall)

“Thanks for the performance you put on last night, trying to pick an argument with somebody, but just be careful if you put on that performance too often someone will drop you like a sack of potatoes...we’ve got everything on camera so if you want a copy come in and we’ll give you a copy...for your enjoyment. Don’t be afraid.

“We have many people high on drugs that come in here. Were you high on drugs or drunk? No one took much interest in your performance. We consider it not your usual behaviour and hope it does not happen again.”
Received Sunday 7 April 2017
Posted Late 12 April 2017

Photograph of Mark Arstall, 38, given freely to Mark Brake of the Adelaide Advertiser and published by the webmaster of the Hutt Street Centre on their webpage.

http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece

Non-drug user seeks advice from WestCare-hosted lawyers

An elderly person with diabolical health problems recently trudged up Emma Hines Lane to the WestCare-hosted Adelaide Legal Outreach Service lawyer inside the WestCare administration building.

This person― who does not want to be identified for fear of reprisals ― is frightened of getting the same treatment from Mark Arstall, 38, that he gave to the 70-year-old bike rider in February. In that incident at WestCare, Arstall took a lengthy video of the old man then threw a bowl of soup over him. An image of the bike rider taken from Arstall’s video later appeared on a website under the name of an anti-drug critic on the hit list of the local Ice dealers. The man on the hit list did not originate this Facebook page, which also included a disguised image of Arstall with the caption: “I am not a stalker.”

The bike rider says that he has already received the odd intimidating stare from a stranger in the vicinity of WestCare.

So the elderly disabled person mentioned at the start of this post visited the lawyer to ask what legal protection was available to discourage Arstall from trying the same trick again.

But the visit to the WestCare-hosted lawyer from the Adelaide Legal Outreach Service, which is part of the Adelaide University Law Faculty, was futile from the start.
One their lawyers recently got the National Library of Australia to embargo the archived version of this website for 40 months in order to prevent exposure of the Ice dealers working out of WestCare, the Hutt Street Centre and the Burdekin Clinic. It is believed that Mark Arstall and WestCare management were behind this threat of legal action against the National Library.

Therefore, it should not have been a surprise when the WestCare-hosted lawyer threw back meaningless statements in response to serious questions asked by the hapless senior citizen frightened of Arstall and his WestCare Ice dealer and addict associates.
Late 9 April 2017

Chocolates at Nunkuwarrin Yunti

A patient arranged by phone to attend the Nunkuwarrin Yunti Aboriginal clinic in Wakefield Street, Adelaide to receive a flu injection.

When the patient got there, the receptionist, who said she was new at the job, said, “We’re short of a doctor today,” so come back another day.

The patient got angry and insisted on getting the injection immediately, so it was done.

After the flu injection, a senior member of staff approached the patient and said, “Normally, if you want something done in this place, a box of chocolates goes a long way. Everybody likes chocolates.”

Late 8 April 2017

Box Factory free barbecue

The Box Factory hosted their annual free BBQ at their building in Regent Street South in the Adelaide CBD the Friday before last.

They served shashliks (shish kebab), sausages, hamburgers, corn-on-the-cob (shithouse, according to one guest) and potato salad (without enough mayonnaise, according to the same guest. And no seconds), chicken, pork chops.

What annoyed The Ghost Who Walks was that he didn’t get any chicken that had been advertised on the grapevine. “There was just pork sausages, pork chops, everything pork,” he said.

The Vitamin Derelict was there, but he had no complaints. Nor was he providing unsolicited advice on health issues.

The Ghost said the mayor or town clerk was there, “tall and skinny”. The cook was also skinny, half-drunk, whacked out of his head and kept telling Card Player David to piss off. David was hanging around the barbecue waiting for the chickens to be thrown on the grill. David returned later after The Ghost had left for Fred’s Van and discovered the chicken had been reserved for guests who arrived later.

Another guest, Blithe Spirit, saw the treatment of Card Player David as more insulting. She said,

“The barbecue at the Box Factory in celebration of Neighbour Day was enjoyable except for the curmudgeon cooking the barbecue, a tall thin older man wearing jeans and a blue check shirt.

“He abused and sneered at David the Card Player mercilessly for being overweight. David was just waiting in line for seconds, which was what everyone else around the curmudgeon was doing but the focus was on David only.

“David never got a shish kebab in the first round - only a sausage - as the shish kebabs were all gone so he was more entitled than the others to be given a shish kebab.

“David tried to explain but the curmudgeon would not listen and continued with the personal insults in front of Box Factory staff members who did not intervene.

“There were more guests than the Box Factory had anticipated but just before it was time to leave, David finally got a shish kebab. The curmudgeon cook owes David an apology.”
Late 8 April 2017

Dumpster Queen compares Anglicare Elizabeth Food Barn lunch with pig food

"Anglicare Foodbarn serving up burnt stew!

"OMG! This concoction of clearly burnt stew, half raw potatoes and meat of indiscriminate quality and texture is JUST NOT ON! I grew up on the land and even pigs would have turned up their noses to this mess! Just because someone is homeless/unemployed/under employed and or transient, does not mean that they deserve to be treated in such a manner!! This is not the first time that i have personally been served food at this facility that was of a dubious quality, but i have to say that this is the WORST meal i have had so far.

"I noted whilst sitting down that the cook was nowhere to be seen??? I would not be showing my face either if i was the main instigator of this culinary horror!

"I know that at heart the Anglicare Mission does much good work for people facing hard times, (and their are many) but the meal i am talking about, was not fit for consumption by human or beast. Even bread and butter placed on the tables with some jam and vegemite would have been a better option."

Claire, aka, Dumpster Diving Queen
Late 7 April 2017

Anglicare Mission
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
11:30am to 1:00pm Monday to Friday
Free lunch, No dessert, No takeaways, Much improved.
Security guard in car park and dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.

Last Saturday at the Adelaide Salvation Army

By 4:50pm, there were more drunks than sober people waiting outside the front doors.

The Ghost Who Walks and The Face left for the Magdalene because they could not get a seat inside. The over-crowding was due to tables in the free food room having been not yet set up while tables and chairs are no longer provided on the verandah or outside the back door to discourage Mr Ice and his customers.

Neither Robyn or Mark Arstall were there. The Vitamin Derelict or Father Christmas weren’t there either. Ajay was looking worse for wear and spoke to the Equity Queen for quite some time. He is an Iraq war veteran from the New Zealand Army and lives with more honour than nearly anyone else in the homeless scene. However, he is troubled. His mental psychology is that of a rescuer so he must find it excruciating living around so many people destroying themselves.

One client left early then later exclaimed: “The smell was atrocious; don’t these people ever wash?”

Drunken Aboriginals sat on the footpath across Pirie Street while a screaming drunk man weaved amongst the flowing vehicular traffic. An observer described him as, “off his head, yelling and screaming, pissed as a parrot, always wandering into the Salvo’s.”

The free food room contained items described by one guest as: “Salty chocolate biscuits, Ferro Roche chocolates, Arnott’s Shapes (as always), boxes of other sh** made in India, Iced Tea and Schweppes (we collected it for Card Player David).”

This guest described the meal as “Beef casserole (quite good, big serve), corn, peas, beans, mashed potatoes, whatever, dessert of baked pears and chocolate custard. Woman said, ‘Be careful, the custard might be a bit hot,’ but the custard was cold as fish. I thought, you poor crazy woman.”

This guest also said, “Played a movie, Faulty Towers, the people who get there...all the druggies, all the drunks, the smell of the place is getting worse and worse, no control, don’t try to quiet them down, the civilised go to Moore Street, Salvos get all the leftover dregs of society, anything left over in the city ends up at the Salvos.”

Yet none of this diminished the numbers of visitors. The place was crammed to bursting, as usual.

Bob the Quiz Master is allegedly hanging out in Streaky Bay, fishing and planning new quiz questions.

The Salvation Army also offers a regular Food Fight on Fridays during school terms from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at Adelaide Congress Hall.

Do Unto Others Social Evening
Salvation Army, 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide
Every Saturday
5:00pm to 11:00pm
Free coffee at 5:00pm; Free meal at 6:00pm; Free barista coffee at 8:00pm; Free pizza at 9:30pm
Also Wednesdays 4:30pm to 7:30pm.
Everything free.
Late 7 April 2017

(above) A small portion of the number of items offered for free by Cos We Care in the South Parklands each Sunday from 7:30am to 9:00am near the corner of South Terrace and Hutt Street, Adelaide. Also on Saturday mornings in Fremont Park carpark No. 1. Yorktown Road, Elizabeth Park at the same time.

Cos We Care at Elizabeth

Last Saturday’s selection was better than the drought from the previous week. However, client numbers were reduced due to memories of the drought week.

New workers included Rob and Simon plus Bryony and Lisa, John and Ann. John felt dizzy so he sat down and ate one of those salty chocolate biscuits that have appeared at most free food venues. That raised his blood sugar levels to normal. He had overworked the previous day fixing the Cos We Care van.

A client with a plastic leg lectured John in a loud voice about eating proper food. The client said he’d had a big toe and a small toe removed, but the infection wouldn’t heal so he told the doctor to chop his leg off below the knee.

His wife had part of her arm missing due to blood clots from a genetically inherited disease.

One client was a woman who got kicked out of Heart and Soul.

Cos We Care offered rockmelons, good bread, takeaway containers of work-for-the-dole vegetable stir fry, cereal and milk in bowls, Iced Coffee, hot coffee and tea, toiletries, canned foods, apples, potatoes, mushrooms, spinach, salty chocolate biscuits, soft drinks, bananas, olives, lemons and Arabica coffee beans though most items were in reduced quantities.

Cos We Care don’t get their supplies from a single source like Food Bank or Oz Harvest. Instead, Anne, John, The man-on-the-street and the other unpaid workers painstakingly collect the food from dozens of retailers during the week while raising money for coffee and vehicle expenses with a sausage sizzle at Bunning’s at Munno Para.

How different this is to the staff at the big homeless joints that work 9:00am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday and collect juicy salaries with holiday and sick pay.

Cos We Care
Saturdays 7:30am - 9:00am at Carpark No 1 at Fremont Park, Yorktown Road, Elizabeth
Sundays 7:30am - 9:00am on South Terrace near Hutt Street, Adelaide
They no longer visit Whitmore Square on Sundays, but stop at The Terrace apartments on South Terrace about 9:00am.
Two-dollar donation requested, but not demanded.
Free vegetables, fruit, hot coffee, sugary buns, canned food and other good stuff.
Late 7 April 2017

Prerogatives of power

The new boss of WestCare has asserted his position by frequently walking around the building and outer areas while blatantly interrupting the conversations of others.

He isn’t trying to be insulting. His problem is that he retains the general societal contempt of homeless-style people. He is also ignorant of how WestCare operates, which, despite offering a haven for the Ice dealers, also has a kind and respectful atmosphere created by high quality employees, both paid and unpaid.

This dope should not be the boss collecting a top salary; he should be an intern working for peanuts while learning the business from Michael or David Secomb or even His Strangeness.
Late 7 April 2017

Muslim lady assimilating well

A fat woman wearing a hijab was with her fat daughter at Anglicare in Elizabeth trying to get something free from the front counter.

She saw an old man smoking a cigarette outside. He was a Housing Trust building inspector before having a heart attack and getting cancer.

The mother told the daughter to go outside and ask him for a cigarette for her.
Late 6 April 2017

Baby gone?

A rumour in the homeless scene is that some government department has taken away S*******’s baby and sent it to a foster home.

S******* was the life and inspiration of the homeless scene in 2015 and early 2016, but having a child did not suit her well and she has lost a huge amount of weight despite not using drugs.

With luck, she will regain her inner fire.
Late 6April 2017

Who lit the fire?

A woman accused by Michael Dempsey denies setting fire to Kelly’s possessions and says she is on good terms with her.

Michael was the leader of the shopping trolley gang and is known to be a benevolent force in the homeless scene.
Late 6 April 2017

Why Melissa Jean went crazy

A friend of Melissa says it was Ice that made her go crazy, particularly over Christmas. Mel could be seen around the Adelaide CBD knocking into strangers, throwing coffee at them or spitting in their faces.

However, the friend says that certain people enjoy, “setting her off, pressing buttons,” and that made her worse.
Late 6 April 2017

Adelaide Dental Hospital

The Ghost Who Walks lost 12kgs last year due to infected teeth. He went to the dental hospital and said the dentist was a “German, old cu**, late forties, nice enough guy, did lots of study, just wanted to pull my teeth out.”
Late 6 April 2017

Uncorroborated break-ins

An uncorroborated source within the Hutt Street Centre, says the “cloak room” has been broken into numerous times.

Derelicts have been sleeping in the laneway for years without problems, but a new breed are grabbing the down pipe out front on Hutt Street and pulling themselves over the fence.

Staff could not understand why the pipe kept falling down until a client linked it with the “cloak room” problem. The so-called cloakroom is where dealers store their stashes to reduce the risk of being caught carrying trafficable quantities.

Meanwhile, the increased police presence has spooked a certain strata of clientele prompting one Ice old-timer to request from management there be fewer visits by the police.
Late 6 April 2017

In praise of City Salvos

Old Nick said at another soup kitchen yesterday that the week before last the meal at City Salvos on Saturday evening the one of the best he’d ever eaten. He said, “...the meat melted in your mouth.”
Late 6 April 2017

Tension at Fred’s Van on Wednesday

The Aboriginal opera singer was there, but was more drunk than last week. He sang well despite this. However, an Aboriginal woman was baiting others with abuse, hoping to trigger a larger fight when others responded to help her.

St Vincent de Paul Fred’s Van volunteers were tense, handed out the food quickly, and avoid extended conversations.

One guest was nervous that someone had called the Ice dealers to come and attack him.

Gawler Place between Wakefield and Flinders Streets, Adelaide
Monday to Friday at 7:00 - 7:30pm
Sunday 6:00 - 6:30pm
Saturday No Fred’s Van
Life Christian Centre do Mondays and Fridays while St Vincent de Paul do the other days.
Orange Sky Laundry there on Fridays from 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Everything free.
Late 6 April 2017

(above) The fruit and vegetables in Woolworths supermarkets appear fresh so the produce they "rescue" and give to Food Bank must still be quite good. Yet the quality of fruit and vegetables given away by charities is extremely old and even rotten. There must be a supply chain bottleneck where the "rescued" produce is kept in a hot warehouse for days before being sent to the charities that distribute it to the intended recipients.

Orange Sky Laundry at
Elizabeth cancelled

A notice published by Anglicare reports that the Orange Sky Laundry service in Elizabeth has been cancelled until further notice due to lack of staff.

The previous staff of two women were a little introverted and Orange Sky wants them to be extroverted so they can initiate positive conversations with clients. Trish and Au Jung were regular clients.

But the two women who have departed did have good vibrations except when I asked them to do my ironing.
Late 5 April 2017

St Luke’s Church

Last Sunday evening the chicken was “barely cooked” according to a veteran diner in the homeless soup kitchen scene. Something also went wrong with the stir fry. Stan was doing the cooking. Four dollars, it cost.

Other times, the sausages and hamburgers have been “shocking” and the fish “dry”. Stan, himself, is described as “okay”.

The diner said the place has gone downhill since the Manager got rid of that “bikie bloke,” AJ, after accusing him of giving him diahorrea.

St Luke’s Church at Whitmore Square, Adelaide has scheduled lunches from Monday to Friday and costing about three-dollars, but these are irregular due to staffing problems.
Late 5 April 2017

Magdalene Church hall on Saturdays

One guest said the Magdalene was where the “civilised derros,” go where despite police rarely in attendance, and with less lighting and no spy cameras there is rarely shouting or fighting. Maybe it is the architecture of the building, the good vibrations or the materials used in its construction.

Mark Arstall, 38, was not there.

But last Saturday it was noticed that the food appeared to be prepared and packaged lasagne and spaghetti bolognaise from a supermarket and not “real cooking”.

Magdalene Church Hall
Moore Street, Adelaide (entrance through the laneway between the hall and the Saracen Head hotel)
Free meal every Saturday at 6:00pm
Drunks and drug affected people welcome, but you must sit on the chairs in the laneway, which is the best place, anyway.
Late 4 April 2017

Sunnydale

A rumour amongst the residents of Sunnydale Supported Residential Facility hint that the owner is being investigated.
By whom, or for what reason, it has not been disclosed, but there had been an outbreak of bedbugs and gastro there the previous month.
Late 5 April 2017

Problem Solved?

Strange Stuart from WestCare is reported to have said there is no need for a meeting between WestCare employees and the 70-year-old who was videoed by a friend of the Ice addicts and dealers, Mark Arstall, 38, and who then threw a bowl of soup onto the old man.

The image of the old man then appeared on a website placed under the name of a man who the Ice dealers say, “attack on sight”. The website is believed to have been created by Mark Arstall.

Strange Stuart allegedly said that the “problem has been solved” in that Arstall was banned for a week over the incident while he was working setting up stands for the Clipsal car race and couldn’t go to WestCare that week, anyway.

Using religious language, it seems as if Satan has infiltrated the minds of certain WestCare salaried staff.
Late 4 April 2017

Emma Hines

A source within the Hutt Street Centre said that Emma had Tourette syndrome, which involves involuntary body movements.

This has been explained as the cause of Emma punching herself in the face and ears till the blood flowed.

But does it explain the savagery of the blows to poor Emma that seemed more than involuntary reflexes?
Late 4 April 2017

Addict dead?

A Yatala prison friend of Jesse Gunter is rumoured to have died from a heroin overdose in his new accommodation near Blackwell Funerals.
Late 5 April 2017

Plymouth Brethren free barbecue

The Exclusive Brethren brought in two trailers, one with gas barbecues and the other holding catering quality refrigerators. There were about a dozen unpaid staff, some of whom apparently took a day off from work to serve us.

They brought their own rubbish bins and served hamburgers with fried onions, beef patties, tomatoes, sliced cheese, spinach leaves and various sauces plus coffee, tea and chocolate.

A white woman getting a meat hamburger also got four or five vege-burgers for certain unseen women who preferred halal meat. However, since that was not available they went vegetarian. I couldn’t believe my luck, also, getting a vege-burger.

Strangely, the Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide mission who kindly allowed the Plymouth Brethren to use their driveway and plastic lawn once again hid the cheap plastic chairs, which left inadequate seating for the guests, some of whom were disabled. Why do they do that?

Three derro-style men stayed behind while the Plymouth Brethren packed up. They shouted filthy abuse into the air, which contradicted the general feeling amongst the guests of their appreciation for the Exclusive Brethren’s kind deed.

Rapid Relief Team (Plymouth Brethren)
Back of Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide
(entry from back gate off K-Mart parking area)
Last Tuesday of each month from 11:00am to 1:30pm except December when it is earlier.
Free.
Late 4 April 2016

Where to get it

“Got some gear?”

A man asked this of another at WestCare two weeks previously. Nothing unusual.
Late 4 April 2017

Double Handling by His Strangeness

Not everyone is happy with the new serving arrangement at WestCare. The organisation has gone from table service to making patrons collect their meals from the counter.

This saves labour, but the contradiction is that Strange Stuart and David Secomb stand on the public side of the counter, receive the plates from the kitchen staff, then personally hand them to each diner, wishing them the best. One critic said it seemed “patronising”.

However, the minestrone soup and roast chicken one day last week were described as beautiful.
Late 4 April 2017

Equity Queen denies strutting

“...I do not strut.”

Adelaide Congress Hall Equity Queen
Posted late 4 April 2017

How to identify a drug dealer?

“Whenever I see a black car, done up, powerful, I think, drug dealer.”
So said a man at a soup kitchen
Late 4 April 2017

(above) An example of part of what is given without charge to each person visiting the Life Church at 1 Karri Street, Munno Para each Thursday at 11:00am to 11:30am and on Saturday from 10:00am to 10:30am. Notice the Italian Gorgonzola and Taleggio cheeses.

Life Church free food

The sausage sizzle started about 9:30am last Saturday as a brand new low-roofed Second Bite van was backed up against the building. It was driven by a man with ginger hair and a long nose. He was drinking a bottle of Iced Coffee.

Two or three dozen guests were standing outside the church as the ticket man searched out each one and issued a ticket, rather than making them search for him.

The man who wore his shirt inside out last week had the flu this week. Jamie had returned after being absent the previous Thursday. A woman brought her 11-week-old daughter. When the staff inside asked her what vegetables she wanted, she said, “Anything,” but she wasn’t greedy. A retired professional dog and roo shooter said he had been married for 47 years and he was proud of that.

The Second Bite delivery included potatoes, onions, carrots, melons, corn, lettuce, cooking tomatoes, Kiwi fruit, Italian blue and smelly cheese, eggs, fruit loaf and plenty of so-so bread. However, supplies were inadequate for the size of the crowd, which was 64 including children. Dora served coffee from the kitchen counter.

Someone told me months ago from another soup kitchen that he suspected the volunteers grabbed the best stuff before the general public were served. However, after watching the building carefully for the past four months, I saw no evidence of this.

Last week, Jamie went out of his way to distribute the leftover Italian cheese to us as we left. And this was the most valuable and desired item of the day.

The distribution is fair and equitable. The session was also pleasant so that the gain was not simply crude fresh food, but also the subtle benefits of being in a healthy emotional atmosphere, which left visitors feeling refreshed.

Life Church free food and coffee
1 Karri Street, Munno Para (between Elizabeth and Gawler)
400 metres from Munno Para railway station.
Thursdays 11:00am - 12:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am - 11:00am
Free bread, fruit, vegetables of varying quality.
Health Care Card or a good story required
Late 4 April 2017

About ***** ****

“...furtive meetings with people with a thrashed look, wearing all black clothes, better grooming...I think he’s dealing.”

An observer talking about a man in Adelaide who shares the values of the drug dealers at the Hutt Street Centre and WestCare.
Late 4 April 2017

Fred’s Van opera singer

On Tuesday 28 March at Fred’s van in Gawler Place, Adelaide, an intoxicated Aboriginal man sang in an operatic voice. A witness said it wasn’t a warm-up exercise, but as if he were on stage singing with an “operatic voice, a beautiful voice”.

The singer later said his uncle was a famous opera singer and he’d performed at the Sydney Opera House.
Late 3 April 2107

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Benny Boy has stomach ache

Lieutenant Dale Allan of the Salvation Army Playford Corps took his 4-year-old son Ben to the Lyell McEwin hospital last week due to a stomach upset and headache. The boy is back home and all is well.
Late 3 April 2017

Life Church free bread and produce at Munno Para

They were lucky on a recent Thursday that there wasn’t a rush beyond the usual 35 or so customers because the amount of fruit and vegetables was much depleted.

Jamie was absent so Charlie called out the allocated numbers. Those called first are generally those who arrive first. When the last stragglers were served, nearly everything was gone. The volunteers apparently got nothing except bread.

Lorraine stood behind the coffee counter and handed out eggs, crumpets and sugary buns. Dora served instant coffee in huge paper cups. There was also drinking water from a cooler. And the toilets are always ultra clean.

The church people were very friendly, as if forgiving everyone for their errors, conscious or not. Bob Murray, Gerry, Robert and Michael were there, but Elsa was not.

Their aim is not only to feed people with food for the body, but to offer forgiveness and acceptance, and to save our souls. Their attitude is completely different to churches with valuable property who to some extent find themselves property managers protecting the worldly empire. Not so with Life Church.

Life Church free food and coffee
1 Karri Street, Munno Para (between Elizabeth and Gawler)
Thursdays 11:00am - 12:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am - 11:00am
Free bread, fruit, vegetables of varying quality.
Health Care Card or a good story required
Late 3 April 2017

Elizabeth Park free produce

The Seventh-day church hall was more crowded than usual on a recent Thursday. Their allocation of serving rank is via coloured cards. Each person gets a card of a random colour. Then the overseer calls out a colour then those with that coloured card are served. This was introduced to stop people arriving an hour early to get the first ticket.

The larger crowd might have been the news that they were giving away refrigerated ham and chicken, chocolate, canned beans and eggs.

As with Life Church on the same day, those called up last missed out on much of the never great fruit and vegetables, but there was a standard allocation of everything else.

The bread at the Seventh-day church is never very fresh unlike Cos We Care who get their bread from Baker’s Delight the night before.

The serving staff included two white women along with the usual Maori and islander Christians.

I talked with a man who said he couldn’t remember anything anymore. I told him my memory was gone, also. Our conversation spread joy to those around us.

When I left, there was a Muslim woman sitting outside with two kids. I waved, but she didn’t wave back. Few women at church charities wave at old men dressed in rags begging for food.

But, all in all, it was a nice visit.

Seventh-Day Adventist church free food
Mondays and Thursdays from 11:15am to 12noon.
Health Care Card required for Second Bite.
Registration begins at 11:15am with distribution beginning at 11:30.
However, clients can arrive as late as 11:40am and still be served.
20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park.
Late 3 April 2017

Mark Arstall’s contradiction

It is strange that of the three elderly men, two of whom were assaulted by Arstall, 38, and another from an assault arranged by him, none called the police. These men are not criminals and have negligible contact with the police.

Yet Arstall, who regular breaks small laws and in two cases assault laws, and associates with crystal methamphetamine addicts who constantly steal and cheat to sustain their addiction, ran to a WestCare-hosted lawyer when he saw criticism of himself and the addicts on the internet.

Another strange reaction to his claims of being stalked is that he put his photograph on a website. In this photograph, he watches through huge binoculars and claims, “I am not a stalker.”

A formerly homeless man who reads books on psychology says this is called transference.
Late 2 April 2017

The Great Underwear Heist

A man appointed as an executor of an estate has been approached by probate authorities over the disappearance of certain items in the deceased person’s estate: namely, used underwear.

It is not known why the man requires such quantities of underwear, but he can be seen regularly searching for underwear bargains. Perhaps he has the same penchant for clean underwear similar to the Celebrity Can Collector. When the Celebrity changes his underwear, he throws it into a rubbish bin, and then opens a new package. He does not believe in washing clothing.

Our underwear heist man fears he may be jailed for six months for failing to perform adequately his duties as an executor.

Meanwhile, he searches far and wide for more used underwear.
Late 2 April 2017

Adelaide Street Crew last Saturday

The screaming of drug addicts fighting each other on Pirie Street could be heard via a microphone in the laneway leading to the multi-story carpark back of Adelaide Congress Hall.

Major Christine Waller did allegedly holler in the kitchen a few minutes earlier that “a mob is forming” out front on Pirie Street, where the crystal meth addicts hide from the Spy Cameras. Major Waller asked a Salvation Army worker to look into it.

Three members of the Street Crew were further up Pirie Street in their white Toyota Rav4. A huge man of “bouncer appearance” was driving while some sort of child protection agency woman sat in the back seat. Michael from WestCare was in the front passenger seat.

They parked between the Tivoli Hotel and City Holden then snuck east on foot along Pirie Street to the fight zone. They spoke to the police who had arrived in two vehicles. The police went into the Army atrium looking for at least one person who fled through the back door.

The man of “bouncer appearance” returned to the carpark where he had been illegally parked and brought the vehicle back onto Pirie Street where he illegally parked in front of temporary no parking signs opposite Congress Hall. However, the addict fighters had disappeared.

Two of the police officers, a man and a woman, then proceeded to the Magdalene Church Hall lane near the back of Vince Focarelli’s La Fig restaurant, which was doing business despite Vince having fled to Italy. The Magdalene free Saturday evening meal was also in full swing.

The officers were not looking for Vince and it was generally thought they were looking for the participants in the drug addict fight at the Salvation Army. But a rumour had spread they were actually searching for Mr Ice who had been seen in the vicinity of Pirie Street, but might have moved west to the Magdalene to service his customers there.

Mick and Wendy would not let the police officers through the back door of the Magdalene Church hall because they did not have a warrant.

Meanwhile, Michael and the child protection woman, and the huge driver drove through the undercover carpark off Angus Street and edged their Street Crew SUV delicately into Vince’s laneway alongside the Magdalene Church hall before parking on Moore Street where they hung around as if killing time.

It is not clear what duties the Street Crew were actually performing, but in their bright orange vests they resembled participants in an advertising campaign similar to when those strange men ride around Adelaide on Vespa scooters, towing huge billboards advertising some new product or business.

In this case, the Street Crew were advertising Baptist Care, Hutt Street Centre and some government child protection outfit.

The Street Crew is the government response to that cold and wet week last winter when it pledged at least $400,000 to help the homeless. The Street Crew and their SUV are that help.

Late 1 April 2017

Note 1: Michael is a worker at WestCare and has been described as sincere, unassuming and energetic. He is not to be confused with Mrs Judith Telstra’s friend, also named Michael, who exhibits positive characteristics such as loyalty to Mrs Telstra through her many travails.

Note 2: The police are not allowed in the Magdalene Church hall in Moore Street, Adelaide because it is classed as a safe environment. As long as a person doesn’t threaten or attack others, or deal in drugs, they are safe from the police. Even in the case of the well-liked dealer who plonked a huge piece of compressed dope heads on the table then begin cutting it into portions; they did not call the police. However, he and his two friends, Terri and John, were banned for two months over the incident. Terri was mightily pissed off with that because she and John had urged the dealer to leave the building.

Should the Ruf Us Board resign?

The formation of Ruf Us was inspired by Dr Jefferis in response to her son being intermittently homeless for over a decade. It was a charity for homeless people.

In the latter half of last year, it received at least $100,000 in donations. However, since Dr Jefferis and most of the volunteers left the organisation, it does not appear to have a presence in the homeless community of Adelaide apart from the odd little-attended barbecue in the parklands.

Dr Jefferis and those departing volunteers from Ruf Us now run a soup kitchen for homeless and other people on Saturdays at their own expense.

Meanwhile, Ruf Us, which received the donations for the purpose of helping those living outside, is spending that money renting an almost idle warehouse in Wingfield. This building stores furniture to furnish homes of victims of domestic violence who are generally not homeless, but moving house.

And nearly everyone in the welfare scene knows that since domestic violence has become a hot political issue, nearly every person seeking money or goods pretends to be such a victim.

Sadly, this is the welfare culture in Adelaide where telling an exaggerated false story is an advantage while being sincere and honest is a disadvantage.

Meanwhile, why should Ruf Us not make available its annual reports and provide an interim financial statement showing how they have spent the money largely raised by its Founder, Dr Jefferis?

If they cannot justify not spending the donation money for the benefit of homeless people, then should they not resign and transfer the assets and trade name (which was chosen by Dr Jefferis’s disabled son, Trent) to Our Street Family Matters, the new organisation started by Dr Jefferis and the ex-Ruf Us volunteers.

Late 1 April 2017

(above) After a number of photographs of this stationary Ruf Us van had been published on Adelaide Homeless Journal, its position has changed at odd hours indicating the possibility that someone might be moving it around to create the illusion that it is actually in use.

Photograph of Mark Arstall taken by News Corp photographer and hosted by the Hutt Street Centre web page.

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