The message in philanthropic gifts large and small
By The Herald Editorial Board
Travel advocate, writer and public television host Rick Steves, who started his global journeys as a young man in 1978 with a “Hippie Trail” journey to Kathmandu, knows what it’s like to wear the dust and sweat of days of road travel and life on the streets.
“I vividly remember what it’s like — as a kid backpacking around the world — to need a shower and to need a place to wash your clothes,” he said, recently.
It’s what led Steves to come out from behind a recent anonymous gift that has secured a long-term home for the Lynnwood Hygiene Center.
Threatened with closure because the property’s owner needed to sell the Lynnwood facility that the Jean Kim Foundation has used rent-free at 19726 64th Ave. W., since 2020, the hygiene center risked ending its work to daily offer showers, a laundry, meals and outreach to other services to those living with homelessness in south Snohomish County.
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Someone earlier posted an article from Steves' Facebook page talking about this,