Handing out hope -- Homeless get help keeping cold at bay with donated sleeping bags

Gratitude.

As homeless men and women left AutoZone Park in Downtown onSaturday morning, a doughnut in one hand and a sleeping bag in theother, nearly all offered words of thanks and blessings from God.

The temperature had inched up to only 20 degrees by late morning,and the sleeping bags will provide another layer of protectionagainst the ferocious cold.

"This is love, when you can't get it from no one else," saidDelaron Banks, 43, and living on the streets for four years. "Itgives me hope."

It shows that God is good, said Valerie Ector, 45, who said she'dbeen living sporadically on the streets for years.

"Deep down in my heart, I …

Handing out hope -- Homeless get help keeping cold at bay with donated sleeping bags

Gratitude.

As homeless men and women left AutoZone Park in Downtown onSaturday morning, a doughnut in one hand and a sleeping bag in theother, nearly all offered words of thanks and blessings from God.

The temperature had inched up to only 20 degrees by late morning,and the sleeping bags will provide another layer of protectionagainst the ferocious cold.

"This is love, when you can't get it from no one else," saidDelaron Banks, 43, and living on the streets for four years. "Itgives me hope."

It shows that God is good, said Valerie Ector, 45, who said she'dbeen living sporadically on the streets for years.

"Deep down in my heart, I …