Tonight at 5pm we will be meeting at Pick N Save located at 1100 E. Garfield
Milwaukee, WI 53212. This is the store right by our condo, there is plenty of parking. We will have new maps and we have to cover some major areas including Riverwest, Murray Hill, The Upper East Side and more along the lakefront. We will be reconvening at Pick N Save at 7pm to report our findings. We plan to to burn more candles of hope once we have all reconvened. We will be providing fliers, tape and water for everyone. Even if you cant make it at 5 please still come because someone will be there to direct you. We were over 100 strong last night. Looking forward to seeing more of you there tonight at 5pm. Pass on the plan via facebook, twitter, text , email, word of mouth. If people ask for information please direct them to the website: http://tomhecht.com/
Tom Hecht
Milwaukee, WI
So today I dropped off fliers at Our Safe Place Shelter, St Catherines Residence and Repairers of the Breach. I also hit up downtown Waukesha. I went went down main street and a couple of others and asked businesses and bars to hang the fliers. I also posted it to a few light poles. I figured a lot of people from here go to Milwaukee so why not try?
There is what appeared to be a homeless man just south of the bridge down by the river today. The bridge on north Ave. It was very strange he has a fort made of stick and broken trees and was digging. The fort as he called it is huge. I think that if anyone goes to speak with him it should be officers or a large group of people. He was definitely “off”. You can’t miss the for almost looks like a huge beaver dam. Its back off the river…he invited us to come over at look at it…but we declined
Jamie- It wasn’t asked that we approach homeless individuals, nor to put ourselves in danger. It was asked to take flyers to the homeless shelters.
And I urge people NOT to approach individuals that are in what appears to be mentally impaired state of mind. To approach an individual like that with a group of people could be percieved in their mind as a threat. We are trying to find Tom, not to threaten, and or put others in harms way. If you see something that pertains to the case, call the police.
I dropped some off that my friend game me at the Rescue Mission this afternoon. I am printing a list of shelters and hope to hit some of those tomorrow
That’s awesome! Every effort is one step closer to finding him!
I will be available tomorrow during the morning to come help search. Is there someone I should contact or someplace I should go to meet to find out where to look? Our prayers continue for all of you.
Gail- at the prayer service after our search tonight, it was mentioned that they woud like to get flyers up in the various homeless shelters in milwaukee. They feel that maybe someone could have seen him. This is one way they mention to help during the day. In the mornings they try and compile all the information from the previous day’s search on the website and to come up with new maps to hand out for searching. If you can print flyers and take them to homeless shelters, that would be a great help during the day!
It sounds like someone may be covering the homeless shelters. If there is anything else I can help with, I’d like to. Someone can email me on Friday morning, or tonight yet and I’ll be checking.