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 people are here to help,” said Dr. William Mercer, vice chairman of The Life Hub, noting the National Weather Service had already issued a winter weather advisory calling for two to five inches of snow overnight. “If they’re displaced tonight, especially with the snow — that could be a disaster

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