Sarah Tripple walked through Washington County’s first homeless shelter on Wednesday morning, stopping often to point out some of her favorite features — and struggling to rank them against each other.

“This is a fully accessible room,” said Tripple, division manager of Washington County Community Services, walking into a spacious room with its own bathroom, a double bed, side table, desk, desk chair, dresser and lounge chair.

“The trend we’ve been seeing is that the folks coming into our program are trending older and have more physical disabilities, so when we designed this building, we wanted to make sure that we were as ADA compliant as possible,” she said.

The room — one of two in the Stillwater shelter that is fully accessible — features a wide doorway, grab bars in the bathroom a

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