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If you haven\u2019t met George, you should! He\u2019s the guy with the warm smile waiting to share a meal and perhaps a story or two with those who visit Huntsville\u2019s shelter for men.<\/p>\n

The shelter is still awaiting an occupancy permit for four beds, although it has been approved for eight, explained the founder of the Table Soup Kitchen Foundation, Heather Berg. She said three shelter managers have been hired and work continues to convert the 16 beds originally proposed down to eight. She\u2019s hopeful that the shelter\u2019s official inauguration will come soon. In the meantime, George waits patiently.<\/p>\n

\"George,

George, the bronze sculpture, was created by local artist Brenda Wainman Goulet and all the stone work was created by local artist Rudi Stade.<\/p><\/div>\n

George is the lifelike bronze sculpture created by the talented Brenda Wainman Goulet. He sits on a stone bench and table created by the equally talented stone artist Rudi Stade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe men\u2019s shelter has been such a community effort,\u201d said Wainman Goulet. \u201cWe really wanted it to be a little different from other places.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the idea behind George is to welcome visitors and create a sense of community.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone has done so much to make this place happen so he\u2019s just sort of the welcoming man,\u201d she laughed. The name George came about because everyone seems to know a George or have a family member named George, so the name stuck.<\/p>\n

Wainman Goulet tried to envision what someone using the shelter might look like. \u201cI was thinking perhaps an older gentleman so when I put a beard on him I thought, I don\u2019t want to make him too rough looking and so he got a bit of a trimmed beard and a warm face and warm eyes.\u201d She said it was refreshing to be able to create a man who did not have to look like anyone in particular and so George, who weighs 260 pounds, came to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor once it was really nice not to have him look like anyone in particular \u2013 especially someone who has passed away, which is normally what my subject matter is and relying on photographs from here and there and everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

If George looks familiar to some that\u2019s because work on George began about a year ago and during that time Wainman Goulet moved from her home of 30 years on Limberlost Road to Port Sydney overlooking Mary Lake. \u201cSo he moved here with me for a little while and was on my front lawn.\u201d<\/p>\n

The work of Wainman Goulet and Stade was commissioned by private donors who want to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was their idea really that they wanted this to be something that was different than perhaps other shelters and that it have a real classiness to it,\u201d said Wainman Goulet.<\/p>\n

Anyone interested in volunteering at the shelter once it opens is asked to email mensshelter@thetablefoundation.ca<\/a>. A training session is scheduled to take place at the shelter located at 11 Hanes Street on Saturday, October 29 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.<\/p>\n

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