About 100 people attended a meeting this weekend in St. Stephen to hear more about what the town's homeless shelter offers the community.

Run by the non-profit organization Neighbourhood Works, the Lighthouse Lodge shelter has been operational since last December, replacing a temporary overnight shelter.

“We had folks sleeping out in the cold. It was terrible. Nobody liked that,” said Mark Groleau, a board member at Neighbourhood Works.

St. Stephen finally gets long-term homeless shelter

St. Stephen gets overnight shelter after long search for location

St. Stephen, a town in eastern New Brunswick that sits at the edge of the U.S. border, has a population of fewer than 5,000 and in a community this small, the problem of homelessness has become an issue that's personal to many.

“Neighb

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