Bannon Street Shelter

A County of Sacramento-designated Aid-In-Kind Shelter, "Bannon Street" is open to those men and women who have qualified for General Assistance. Those who qualify may receive 90 to 120 consecutive days of food, shelter, clothing, job training, living skills preparation, rehabilitation referrals and permanent housing referrals. Forty-eight beds are designated for men and 14 beds for women.

Lynda Lewis, program manager
916.443.4688

Starbucks brightens Bannon for Thanksgiving

Starbucks team decorates Bannon for holidays

Starbucks District #519 managers pose with Bannon Street Program Manager Lynda Lewis (second from
right) following their Nov. 14 decorating project.

It was apt that members of the Starbucks District #519 management team assembled cornucopias for their Nov. 14 Thanksgiving decorating project at the Bannon Street Shelter.

The dictionary definition of “cornucopia” is abundance, and glad tidings and goodwill were definitely in abundance as the eight managers, led by Casey Neill, adorned the shelter’s dining room with tablecloths and centerpieces, as well as wall decorations.

”I was looking for something to do with my team – it’s a new team – as a team-building project that would also give back to the community,” says Neill.

On hand to greet the volunteers, who included Mary Dinnell, Diane Jones, Joshua Collier, Daniel Giles, Shawn Jones, Juli Goldsworthy and Amy Musial, was Bannon Street Shelter Program Manager Lynda Lewis.

“Lynda is passionate,” says Neill of Bannon Street Shelter Program Manager Lynda Lewis, “and it is very inspiring to me that while she gets to give, she talks about how much the clients give back to her.”

Neill also has a fan in Lewis, who proclaimed the morning visit by the Starbucks team as “awesome.” “Starbucks has been really good to us,” says Lewis. “It’s wonderful. I think everybody’s going to love it. I’ve already gotten ‘thumbs-up’ from several of the residents.”

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