AT THE DEADLINE — Volunteers and homeless individuals packed up personal belongings and valuables on Monday at Wheeling’s exempted homeless camp. The city had given six weeks notice that the camp was closing at 5 p.m. Monday, and city crews are expected to clear the site today. -- Eric Ayres

WHEELING — Volunteers scrambled to help residents of Wheeling’s exempted homeless encampment pack up valuables Monday as the city’s 5 p.m. deadline for the camp’s closure approached.

Representatives of Street MOMs, House of Hagar and other local social service agencies brought vehicles, U-hauls, shopping carts, luggage, storage totes and other gear to help homeless individuals who were being displaced by the closing of the city’s only camp along Wheeling Creek near the Peninsula Cemetery.

“A lot of

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